America Ferrera
America Georgina Ferrera (/fəˈrɛərə/; born April 18, 1984) is an American actress, director and television producer. She has received numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to a nomination for an Academy Award. In 2007 and 2024, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world and in 2023, she was named in BBC's 100 Women list. Ferrera developed an interest in acting at a young age, performing in several stage productions at her school. She made her feature film debut in 2002 with the comedy-drama Real Women Have Curves, earning praise for her performance. She achieved modest success early in her career with roles in films such as the comedy-dramas Gotta Kick It Up! (2002) and The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (2005). She garnered further critical acclaim and recognition for her starring role as Betty Suarez in the ABC comedy-drama series Ugly Betty (2006–2010). For her performance, she won a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, the first for a Latina woman in the category. Ferrera's other film roles include the drama The Dry Land (2010), the romantic comedy Our Family Wedding (2010), the crime drama End of Watch (2012), and the fantasy comedy Barbie (2023), which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She also voiced Astrid Hofferson in the How to Train Your Dragon franchise (2010–2019) and co-produced and starred in the NBC workplace comedy series Superstore (2015–2021). Description above from the Wikipedia article America Ferrera, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
89 acting credits · 2 directing credits
Acting · 89
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
The Good Wife
2009
Conan
2010
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
The View
1997
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014
Touched by an Angel
1994
What If...?
2021
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Ugly Betty
2006
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
Superstore
2015
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Dragons: Race to the Edge
2015
Barbie
2023
Independent Lens
1999
The Oscars
1953
Lip Sync Battle
2015
A Little Late with Lilly Singh
2019
How to Train Your Dragon
2010
DreamWorks Dragons
2012
How to Train Your Dragon 2
2014
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
2019
WeCrashed
2022
History 101
2020
Entertainment Tonight
1981
Who Do You Think You Are?
2010
Tinker Bell
2008
How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming
2019
The Lost Bus
2025
End of Watch
2012
Dumb Money
2023
The Emmy Awards
1949
Phoning It In
2024
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Lords of Dogtown
2005
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
2005
America Divided
2016
Legend of the BoneKnapper Dragon
2010
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
2008
The Early Show
1999
The Cat in the Hat
2026
Dragons: Dawn of the Dragon Racers
2014
Shine On with Reese
2018
Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury
2011
Gentefied
2020
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
2021
The Words That Built America
2017
Angel City
2023
Our Family Wedding
2010
Under the Same Moon
2007
Special Correspondents
2016
Book of Dragons
2011
Cesar Chavez
2014
Six by Sondheim
2013
X/Y
2014
Family Feud
2018
Real Women Have Curves
2002
The Dry Land
2010
Katy Perry: Will You Be My Witness?
2017
100 Years
2017
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
2012
Steel City
2006
Plainsong
2004
The 4%: Film's Gender Problem
2016
Gotta Kick It Up!
2002
How to Train Your Dragon: Legends
2010
It's a Disaster
2013
Sid the Science Kid: The Movie
2013
How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer
2005
Towards Darkness
2007
3:52
2005
Every Vote Counts: A Celebration of Democracy
2020
The Latino List
2011
Darkness Minus Twelve
2004
Me Facing Life: Cyntoia's Story
2011
Muertas
2007
La Lupe: Queen of Latin Soul
2007
Get the Fire!
2003