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UGLY BETTY
Role: Betty Suarez
Airing: Thursday's on ABC
Status: Hiatus
Season: 2
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SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS: 2
Role: Carmen
Release: 2008
Status: Filming
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Welcome to AmericaFerreraOnline.Com, the freshest
America Ferrera fansite on the web. Our imbition is to bring you the latest
news, information, photos, and multi-media on America Ferrera. This is a an
unofficial fansite site run by
Elizabeth
and is hosted by Gertie.
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| BIOGRAPHY |
 America "Georgine" Ferrera was born in Los Angeles, California
on April 19, 1984, to Honduran parents and was raised by her mother in Woodland Hills, California. She is the youngest of six siblings. She started acting at age eight in school plays and community theater. She attended high school at El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills. Ferrera attends the University of Southern California, where she is double-majoring in Theater and International Relations.
In 2002, she made her film debut in Real Women Have Curves. Ferrera followed this with roles in both television (Touched by an Angel) and film (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and Lords of Dogtown). Ferrera received a 2005 Movieline Breakthrough Award.
In December 2005, she appeared in the off-Broadway play Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, directed by Trip Cullman. In 2006, she landed the lead role in Ugly Betty, an adaptation of the Colombian hit telenovela Betty La Fea, in which she portrays a girl that her peers find extremely unattractive, thus the series title. As Betty Suarez, Ferrera wears fake braces on her teeth, bushy eyebrows and a disheveled wig, and make-up and clothing intended to downplay her own good looks.
According to Ugly Betty hair department head Roddy Stayton, "She's a gorgeous girl with an incredible style sensibility in her personal life. What we do is Bettify her in the morning. It's in contrast to the rest of the show, where everybody else is glammed up", adding that it was Ferrera herself who coined the term "Bettification" to describe the process.
For her role in Ugly Betty, Ferrera won the 2007 Golden Globe for Best
Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Comedy or Musical. Other
nominees were: Marcia Cross, Felicity Huffman, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and
Mary-Louise Parker. As a result of the award, she was congratulated by the
US House of Representatives in being a role model for young Latinas. |
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