America Ferrera

America Ferrera is perhaps best known for her fearless portrayal of 'Betty Suarez' on ABC's hit comedy Ugly Betty. This breakthrough role has earned Ferrera an Emmy®, Golden Globe®, and Screen Actors Guild Award®, as well as both ALMA and Imagen Awards.

Ferrera secured her place as one of Hollywood's most vibrant young talents with her starring role in the Patricia Cardoso film Real Women Have Curves. Her performance earned her a Sundance Jury Award for Best Actress, an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Debut Performance, and a Young Artist Award nomination for Best Performance for a Leading Young Actress.

Ferrera starred in Todd Berger's, It's a Disaster, opposite Julia Stiles and David Cross. She appeared as ‘Helen Chavez' in Diego Luna's film, Chavez, about famed civil rights activist Cesar Chavez.

Ferrera starred as ‘Roxie Hart' in the West End production of the hit musical Chicago for an eight week run. Ferrera was seen in a recurring role on the second season of the CBS hit series The Good Wife, in which she played an illegal nanny and object of Eli's (Alan Cumming) affection.

Ferrera was seen in Ryan Piers Williams' The Dry Land opposite Melissa Leo and Jason Ritter. She also executive produced the film, which premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and won "Best International Film" at the 2010 Edinburgh Film Festival. The film was released by Maya Entertainment. Other feature film work includes Fox Searchlights' Our Family Wedding, Dreamworks' How To Train Your Dragon and Warner Bros' The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, the sequel to the 2005 original. She also starred in the bilingual independent film Towards Darkness, which she executive produced, and Fox Searchlight's independent film Under the Same Moon.

Additional credits include the Brian Jun film Steel City, Catherine Hardwicke's Lords of Dogtown, and the 2005 Sundance Film Festival entry How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer. Ferrera also appeared off- Broadway in Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, directed by Trip Cullman.

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