Who is Sofía Vergara, and what are some stunning photos of her?
Born July 10, 1972 in Barranquilla, Sofia Vergara is a Colombian model and actress.
A photographer from a famous modeling agency notices her luscious curves on a beach in Colombia and decides to launch her career. She became the face of the "Pepsi" brand and quickly gained great popularity thanks to the advertising campaigns of Mc Donald, Colgate and Covergirl.
Sofia then moved to Miami where she signed an exclusive contract with the Univision channel, on which she hosted several shows. At the end of the 90s, she tried her luck as an actress. She took her first steps in the Mexican telenovela Acapulco, cuerpo y alma. Known and appreciated in Latin American, she multiplies the roles in television series.
After becoming a star of Colombian television, Sofia made a career in the United States and in cinema. We first note multiple appearances in series, such as Alerte à Malibu, Ma famille d'abord and Dirty Sexy Money. On the big screen, she plays in many films: Chasing Papi, Soul Plane, The Lords of Dog Town or even Pledge This (by giving the reply to Paris Hilton)... She also tries dubbing for the animated films Happy Feet 2 and Escape From Planet Earth.
It was thanks to her role in the series Modern Family, broadcast on the ABC network in the United States, that Sofia gained recognition from North American audiences from 2009. She was twice nominated for the Golden Globes for her incarnation of Gloria Delgado-Pritchett, a Colombian emigrant character with a strong Hispanic accent, a little superficial and very much in love with her husband. Thus, from 2010 to 2013, she was nominated four times for the Emmy Awards in the Best Supporting Actress category for a comedy.
Successes follow. She multiplies the roles on the small screen, as in the cinema. She can be found headlining two ABC sitcoms, Hot Properties and The Knights of Prosperity. She also plays the Colombian version of the character of Mary-Alice Young in a remake of Desperate Housewives, of which she is also executive producer. In 2011, Sofia turns in The Smurfs and in the romantic comedy New Year's Eve. In 2013, we find her in Machete Kills by Roberto Rodriguez and appearing in Apprenti Gigolo alongside Vanessa Paradis, Woody Allen and Sharon Stone.
On the heart side, Sofia Vergara marries her childhood sweetheart, Manolo Gonzalez-Ripoli, but the couple separates after a few years. She then met the businessman, Nick Loeb, but the couple broke up in 2014. She found love again on the arm of actor Joe Manganiello, with whom she became engaged in December 2014. On November 22, 2015, the couple getting married in Florida.
