America Ferrera
Known for: Acting
Born: April 18, 1984
Place of birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
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 Traveling 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.
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Filmography
49 movies · 44 TV shows, newest first
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The Cat in the Hat
2026
7.0
The Lost Bus
20251.0
Phoning It In
2024
6.7
Dumb Money
2023
6.9
Barbie
2023
6.5
Angel City
2023
7.4
WeCrashed
2022
8.0
What If...?
2021
7.4
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
2021
3.0
Every Vote Counts: A Celebration of Democracy
2020
7.1
History 101
2020
6.8
Gentefied
2020
8.0
How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming
2019
3.4
A Little Late with Lilly Singh
2019
6.3
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
7.8
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
2019
7.8
Shine On with Reese
2018
2.5
Family Feud
2018
7.7
Katy Perry: Will You Be My Witness?
2017
6.0
The Words That Built America
2017
6.0
100 Years
2017
6.0
America Divided
2016
5.8
Special Correspondents
2016
3.3
The 4%: Film's Gender Problem
2016
7.5
Superstore
2015
6.1
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
6.2
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
8.4
Dragons: Race to the Edge
2015
6.4
Lip Sync Battle
2015
5.1
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
7.2
Dragons: Dawn of the Dragon Racers
2014
7.7
How to Train Your Dragon 2
2014
7.8
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014
4.8
X/Y
2014
6.2
Cesar Chavez
2014
5.1
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
5.8
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
7.1
Six by Sondheim
2013
6.2
It's a Disaster
2013
2.6
Sid the Science Kid: The Movie
2013
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Half the Sky
2012
7.4
End of Watch
2012
7.8
DreamWorks Dragons
2012
7.3
Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury
2011
6.8
Book of Dragons
2011
7.0
The Latino List
2011
6.0
Me Facing Life: Cyntoia's Story
2011
7.9
How to Train Your Dragon: Legends
2010
7.2
Conan
2010
7.1
Legend of the BoneKnapper Dragon
2010
4.5
The Dry Land
2010
7.9
How to Train Your Dragon
2010
5.6
Our Family Wedding
2010
6.9
Who Do You Think You Are?
2010
7.6
The Good Wife
2009
4.9
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
7.0
Tinker Bell
2008
6.2
Sid the Science Kid
2008
6.3
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
2008
7.9
Under the Same Moon
20078.2
La Lupe: Queen of Latin Soul
2007
4.9
Towards Darkness
200710.0
Muertas
2007
6.4
Ugly Betty
2006
5.5
Steel City
2006
8.0
3:52
2005
7.1
Lords of Dogtown
2005
6.5
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
2005
5.6
How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer
2005
7.2
Plainsong
2004
8.5
Darkness Minus Twelve
2004
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Get the Fire!
2003
5.6
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
6.1
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
5.3
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
6.1
Real Women Have Curves
2002
6.7
Gotta Kick It Up!
2002
8.1
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000
7.6
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
6.2
The Early Show
1999
6.6
Independent Lens
1999
4.3
The View
1997
7.2
Touched by an Angel
1994
7.3
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
5.4
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
5.6
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
4.3
Entertainment Tonight
1981
7.0
The Oscars
1953
8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
7.9
The Emmy Awards
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Army of Shadows
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I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
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My What If Year
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