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Colombian and American actress and model Sofia Vergara rose to prominence as a highly regarded TV host of programs for the Spanish-language television network Univision in the late ‘90s. She started acting in 2000 and was notable for her first acting job in English in Chasing Papi in 2003 and has appeared in various films until now. Before she rose to stardom, Vergara was discovered by a photographer on a beach in Colombia that presented her opportunities to work as a model and even on TV shows. At 17, she got her first commercial that aired in Latin America and began to enter acting schools and train.
Aside from memorable film roles, Sofia Vergara is best known for her role in the comedy series Modern Family as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett. She was nominated for four Golden Globe Awards, four Primetime Emmy Awards, and Eleven Screen Actors Guild Awards for the show. Her role in the series made her the most-paid actress on television, and she has done many works besides the show. Sofia Vergara's net worth is estimated to be about $180 million.
Vergara was born to a family in Barranquilla on July 10, 1972. His father was a rancher, and her mother was just an ordinary housewife. She was nicknamed Toti by her family members and relatives. Vergara studied and learned English at a bilingual elementary school. She also studied dentistry for three years at the National University of Colombia.
Unfortunately, she stopped and left two semesters away from completing her degree, for she had opportunities and offers in modeling and show business. In the mid-‘90s, she relocated to the United States and became a Univision television personality. She hosted the travel show Fuera de Serie and a variety show, A Que No Te Atreves.
Vergara who loves expensive things appeared during the 1995 American Comedy Awards. She shortly caught the attention of English-language audiences, and by the end of the decade, she had received the Hispanic Woman of the Year Award. Despite her formidable and impressive success in her career, her brother Rafael was murdered in his home in Colombia during an attempt to kidnap him in 1998.
Sofia Vergara's Flourishing Modeling And TV Career
After Vergara’s offers of modeling and television career, her showbiz career boomed quickly. Years passed in her early young career, and Vergara was named the face of CoverGirl in 2011 following her appearance, and its first advertisement appeared in January 2012.
The actress who had multi-million dollar business appeared in many commercials, including Comcast’s Xfinity brand and State Farm. Vergara starred in an American sitcom in 2009 called Modern Family as a sexy and assertive Gloria Delgado-Pritchett, wife of Jay Pritchett, played by Ed O’Neill, the owner of a closet company and considered the wealthiest among the family member.
During her filming of the American sitcom, Vergara was supposed to star in an independent drama film, The Paperboy. Due to a one-week delayed shoot owing to the conflict shooting schedule for the third season of Modern Family, she dropped out of the film. Sofia Vergara’s first leading role in a major film was the Farrelly brother’s The Three Stooges in 2011. In the movie, she plays a mean woman who tries manipulating the three stooges into killing her wealthy husband to get all his money.
Her Impressive Breakthrough In Hollywood
According to Forbes, Vergara earned the spot as the highest-earning woman in the United States television in July 2012, earning $19 million for the previous year. Vergara also warned a title from the People magazine as one of the most beautiful people. The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard also praised the actress as one of the most influential Latin women in the Hollywood industry.
In 2014, Vergara began dating Magic Mike actor Joe Manganiello, the pair announced their engagement in December and tied the knot in November 2015. Sofia Vergara received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on May 2015. According to Forbes, her estimated annual income spiked to $28.5 million a year after an estimated $43 million considering her one of the highest-paid actresses in television.
Aside from her breakthrough in Hollywood, she also planted seeds for financial success before becoming the highest-paid actress. She launched her clothing line, perfume, and jewelry collection and even partnered with Walmart to promote a denim brand. In 2015, Vergara worked with the charming Hollywood actress in a buddy comedy, Hot Pursuit, followed by another comedy film, The Female Brain. In 2017, Vergara voiced in an animated film titled The Emoji Movie. Switching her perspective on her persona in acting, she co-starred in a crime thriller Bent in 2018. The following year, she set foot into drama in 2019 in the film Bottom of the 9th, directed by Raymond De Felitta, co-starring with her husband, Joe Manganiello.
The Film was bout Sonny Stano (Joe Manganiello), who spent 17 years in prison for a violent mistake. After serving behind bars, he returns to his Bronx neighborhood and continues his baseball aspiration. The film got mixed and average reviews, as it holds a 69 percent rating on the movie review website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 13 reviews, with an average of 5.7 out of 10. On the other side of her booming career, the reality talent show America’s Got Talent announced that Sofia Vergara would be joining the production as a judge in February 2020, starting with the show’s fifteenth season until she sticks with the show for her second season in 2021 until her third in 2022.
Sources: Biography, The Things, IMDb
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