America Ferrera Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actress , Executive Producer , Director more
Birth name America Georgine Ferrera
American nationality
Birth April 18, 1984 (Los Angeles, California, United States)

BIOGRAPHY
It was on television, in 2002, that America Ferrera began her acting career by starring in the TV film Cadence for Disney Channel before discovering film sets a few months later playing the title role of Ana , a young Mexican who decides to enter university against the advice of her family. After which, she appeared for an episode in series such as The Angels of Happiness as well as The Experts before returning to the cinema in 2005 with the initiatory story 4 Girls and Jeans then The Lords of Dogtown alongside Emile Hirsh and Heath Ledger .

It was the following year, in 2006, that her career took a considerable turn when she obtained the main role in the series Ugly Betty . She plays Betty Suarez, a young girl with an unattractive physique but who will fight to find her place in a world where appearances sometimes matter more than the rest. A character which led the actress to physically transform.

The series was a success for four seasons, until 2010 and also received the Golden Globe for best comedy series while America Ferrera won the Golden Globe for best actress. Subsequently, she reprized her role of Carmen for 4 Girls and Jeans 2 (2008) then played a young girl living in a very stressful manner in the weeks preceding her wedding in The War of the Fathers (2010). The actress also plays a police officer in the violent End of Watch (2012) and Helen Chavez in the biopic Cesar Chavez (2014).

At the same time, America Ferrera began her immersion in animated films by lending her voice to Noa in Tinker Bell (2008) and Astrid (friend of the hero) in the lucrative Dreamworks Studios production Dragons (2010), then the series derived from the film Dragons: Riders of Berk (2012 – 2014) and finally Dragons 2 (2014).