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America Ferrera says goodbye to 'Ugly Betty'

San Jose Mercury News - Found Mar. 17, 2010
Should America Ferrera ever decide to stop acting, she'd make a great politician.
America Ferrera says goodbye to 'Betty' - AZCentral.com
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Posted on March 17, 2010, 5:10 am

Our Family Wedding -- $7.6M

MSN Movies - Found Mar. 16, 2010
America Ferrera, Regina King, and Fred Armisen co-star. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide [ more ]
Video: Whitaker, Mencia 'Tie the Knot' - CBS News
6) Our Family Wedding - Ottawa Citizen
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Posted on March 16, 2010, 3:50 am

?Alice? blows away ?Green Zone? at box office

MSNBC - Found Mar. 14, 2010
6 with $7.6 million was Fox Searchlight's comedy "Our Family Wedding," starring America Ferrera as a Hispanic bride marrying a black man.
Alice in Wonderland rules U.S. box-office - Hollywood
'Green Zone' can't change fortunes of war films - USA Today
'Alice' retains boxoffice crown - Hollywood Reporter
?Alice? Wins the Box Office Weekend - New York Times
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Hollywood Reporter

Posted on March 14, 2010, 3:35 am

"Alice" Extends No. 1 Stay at Box Office

CBS News - Found Mar. 15, 2010
6 with $7.6 million was Fox Searchlight's comedy "Our Family Wedding," starring America Ferrera of "Ugly Betty" as a Hispanic bride marrying a...
Video: ?Alice? is top-grossing Depp-Burton film - MSNBC
'Green Zone' can't change fortunes of war movies - USA Today
?Green Zone? in Dismal Showing Over Weekend - New York Times
'Alice' remains box office champ - CNN
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Posted on March 15, 2010, 4:25 am

Movie Review | 'Our Family Wedding': America Ferrera and Forest ...

New York Times - Found Mar. 12, 2010
... in Rick Famuyiwa?s cartoonish feature about the nuptials of a Mexican-American daddy?s girl (America Ferrera) and an African-American...
Walking Down the Comedic Aisle - New York Times
Video: Ferrera on ?Our Family Wedding? - MSNBC
'Our Family Wedding': Here come the insults and cliches - USA Today
Movie Review | 'Our Family Wedding': America Ferrera and Forest ... - New York Times
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Christian Science Monitor

Posted on March 12, 2010, 9:05 am

America Ferrera Family Wedding

About - Found Mar. 13, 2010
America Ferrera talks about Our Family Wedding, a comedy with Forest Whitaker and Carlos Mencia, and the series finale of Ugly Betty.
Review: Our Family Wedding Feels Borrowed and Blue - EOnline.com
'Family Wedding' invites all clichés - Chicago Daily Herald
Engaging, cliched 'Our Family Wedding' - Newsday
'Our Family Wedding' should be annulled - Toronto Sun
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Coming Soon!

Posted on March 13, 2010, 4:00 am

How to Train Your Dragon

Variety - Found Mar. 11, 2010
... as Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, T.J. Miller and Kristen Wiig).A standout among the cast, America Ferrera voices the role of tomboy...
Los Angeles Premiere of DreamWorks Animation’s 'HOW TO TRAIN ... - Houston Chronicle
EA Seemingly Drops Dragon Age 2 Release Date - Official PlayStation Magazine on 1up.com
How to Train Your Dragon Guidebook #1 - Examiner.com
Los Angeles Premiere of DreamWorks Animation?s 'HOW TO TRAIN YOUR ... - Memphis Business Journal
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Variety

Posted on March 11, 2010, 4:25 am

America Ferreras Our Family Wedding Premiere, New York America ...

Access Hollywood - Found Mar. 10, 2010
America Ferrera,Forest Whitaker,Ugly Betty,Red Carpet America Ferrera tells Access about her shooting experience on 'Our Family Wedding' and what
Hey! It's Carlos Mencia! - CNN
Carlos Mencia's new movie - CNN
Film: ?Our Family Wedding? Uses Ethnicity to Tweak a Genre - New York Times
America Ferrera weight loss reveal at movie premiere (Before and ... - Examiner.com
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Huffington Post

Posted on March 10, 2010, 4:38 am

America Ferrera says bye to Betty

Canada.com - Found Mar. 9, 2010
America Ferrera and Lance Gross in Our Family Wedding. Photograph by: Scott Garfield, TCFFC BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.

Posted on March 9, 2010, 3:45 am

How To Train Your Dragon Clip

/Film - Found Mar. 7, 2010
The voice cast includes Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Craig Ferguson, Kristen Wiig, and America Ferrera.

Posted on March 7, 2010, 11:00 am

America Ferrera Biography

America Ferrera
extracted from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License

America Ferrera

America Ferrera, 2006
Born America Georgine Ferrera1
April 18, 1984 (1984-04-18) (age 25)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation Actress
Years active 2001–present

America Georgine Ferrera1 (born April 18, 1984) is an American actress. She plays the lead role in the television series Ugly Betty. She also starred in the movies Real Women Have Curves, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and its sequel Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2.

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Early life

Ferrera, the youngest of seven children, was born in Los Angeles, California, to parents who immigrated to the United States from Honduras in the mid-1970s. Her mother worked as a housecleaning staff director for a Red Roof Inn.2 Her mother divorced her father and raised Ferrera and her siblings, always stressing the importance of higher education.3 Ferrera was raised a Catholic.4

Ferrera grew up in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles, where she attended George Ellery Hale Middle School and El Camino Real High School.5 From the time she was eight years old, when she landed a small role in a school production of Hamlet and then at age twelve a much bigger role as the Artful Dodger in Oliver!, Ferrera knew that she wanted to be a performer. She acted in school plays and community theater in Los Angeles throughout her youth, though with little help from her mother, who insisted that she pursue other interests because she was concerned her daughter would not get a fair shake. Ferrera was forced to take the bus to auditions, though eventually her mother saw her daughter’s dedication and began to drive her.3 Ferrera disliked her first name as a child and went by her middle name, "Georgine", until she began acting professionally.6

Career

In July 2002, Ferrera made her first TV movie, Gotta Kick It Up! for The Disney Channel. That same year then her uncle died, she made her feature film debut in the indie sleeper hit Real Women Have Curves. Ferrera followed this with roles in both television (Touched by an Angel) and film (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and Lords of Dogtown). Ferrera received a 2005 Movieline Breakthrough Award. In December 2005, she appeared in the off-Broadway play Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, directed by Trip Cullman.

She landed the lead role of Betty in Ugly Betty in 2006. Ugly Betty is an adaptation of the Colombian hit telenovela Betty La Fea, in which she portrays a girl whom her peers find extremely unattractive, thus the series title. As Betty Suarez, Ferrera wears braces, has bushy eyebrows and a disheveled wig, and make-up and clothing intended to downplay her own looks, in contrast to most of the "glammed up" characters; Ferrera herself coined the term “Bettification” to describe the process of creating her onscreen persona.7

For her role in Ugly Betty, Ferrera won the 2007 Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Comedy or Musical, beating out fellow nominees Marcia Cross, Felicity Huffman, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Mary-Louise Parker. As a result of the award, she was congratulated by the U.S. House of Representatives as being a role model for young Hispanics.8 On 28 January, 2007, Ferrera won the prestigious Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Female Actor in a Comedy Series. She also starred in and was the executive producer for the poignant short film Muertas.

In 2007, Time Magazine chose Ferrera as one of the top artists and entertainers in their “Time 100: The Most Influential People In The World” issue.9 In July 2007, America Ferrera also won Imagen Foundation’s Creative Achievement Award.10

On September 16, 2007, Ferrera won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Comedy Series for her role of Betty Suarez on ABC’s Ugly Betty. In the summer of 2007, she wrapped filming on The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, the sequel to the 2005 film The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants as Carmen. She also is the voice of one of the nature fairies in Tinkerbell (2008). As of May 2009, she is filming a movie in Albuquerque, New Mexico and west Texas called American Tragic or The Dry Land.

Filmography

Films

Year Film Role Notes
2002 Real Women Have Curves Ana Garcia
Gotta Kick It Up! Yolanda "Yoli"
2004 Darkness Minus Twelve Luiza
2005 How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer Blanca
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Carmen Lowell
Lords of Dogtown Thunder Monkey
3:52 Kate
2006 Steel City Amy Barnes
2007 Muertas Rebecca Also executive producer
Towards Darkness (Hacia la oscuridad) Luiza Also executive producer
La Misma Luna Marta
2008 The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 Carmen Lowell
Tinker Bell Fawn Voice
Direct-to-video
2010 The Dry Land Sarah Released at Sundance Film Festival 2010
Also executive producer
How to Train Your Dragon Astrid Voice
post-production
Our Family Wedding Lucia Ramirez

Television

Year Film Role Notes
2002 Touched by an Angel Charlee Episode: "The Word"
2004 $5.15/Hr. TV film
Plainsong Victoria Roubideaux TV film
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation April Perez Episode: "Harvest"
2006-201011 Ugly Betty Betty Suarez

Awards and nominations

America became the first ever TV Actress to have won all 3 major Lead Actress Awards in a single year,including the Emmy Awards, the Golden Globe Awards, and the Screen Actors Guild Awards. On December 9th, 2009, Ferrera became one of recipients of NYWIFT Muse Awards 09[1], along with 3 other women, Julianna Margulies, Allison Silverman, and Andrea Wong[2].

Year Nominated work Award Result
2002 Real Women Have Curves Sundance Film Festival - Special Jury Prize: Dramatic for acting Won
2003 Real Women Have Curves Independent Spirit Awards - Best Debut Performance Nominated
Young Artist Awards -
Best Performance in a Feature Film - Leading Young Actress
Nominated
2005 The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Satellite Awards: Best Supporting Actress - Musical or Comedy Nominated
Teen Choice Awards - Choice Movie Breakout Performance - Female Nominated
Teen Choice Awards - Choice Movie Hissy Fit - Female Nominated
2006 The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants ALMA Awards - Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture Nominated
Imagen Awards - Best Actress Won
Ugly Betty Satellite Awards - Best Actress in a Series, Comedy or Musical Nominated
2007 Ugly Betty Image Awards - Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series Nominated
Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series Nominated
Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series Won
Teen Choice Awards - Choice TV Actress: Comedy Nominated
Teen Choice Awards - Choice TV: Breakout Won
Television Critics Association Awards - Individual Achievement in Comedy Nominated
ALMA Awards - Outstanding Actress - Television Series, Mini-Series or Television Movie Won
Emmy Awards - Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Won
Golden Globes - Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy Won
Imagen Awards - Creative Achievement Award Won
Imagen Awards - Best Actress - Television Won
Satellite Awards - Best Actress in a Series, Comedy or Musical Won
2008 Ugly Betty Emmy Awards - Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Nominated
Golden Globes - Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy Nominated
Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series Nominated
Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series Nominated
Teen Choice Awards - Choice TV Actress: Comedy Nominated
Image Awards - Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series Nominated
Imagen Awards - Best Actress - Television Nominated
2009 Ugly Betty Peoples Choice Awards - Choice TV Actress Comedy Nominated
Golden Globes - Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy Nominated
Image Awards - Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series Nominated
Imagen Awards - Best Actress - Television Nominated
Kids' Choice Awards - Favorite Television Actress Nominated
Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series Nominated
Teen Choice Awards - Choice TV Actress: Comedy Nominated


References

  1. ^ a b Cindy Pearlman (2008-08-03). "Actress America Ferrera sticks to the message". Reading Eagle. http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=101295. Retrieved 2010-01-12. 
  2. ^ Comita, Jenny (May, 2007). "America Ferrera, Hot Betty". W Magazine. http://www.wmagazine.com/celebrities/2007/05/america_ferrera?currentPage=1. Retrieved 2009-02-01. 
  3. ^ a b http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1807809245/bio America Ferrera's family background
  4. ^ "America Ferrera no Ugly Betty". Boston Globe. 2009-06-19. http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2009/06/19/america_ferrera_no_ugly_betty/. Retrieved 2010-03-18. 
  5. ^ http://movies.nytimes.com/person/302580/America-Ferrera/biography
  6. ^ Davis, Peter (August 2009). "Miss America". Gotham. http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:NVB5o2A47QkJ:www.gotham-magazine.com/GOT_MA09_102_MIS.html+america+ferrera+%22middle+name%22+gotham&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us. Retrieved 19 September 2009. "Named after her mother, Ferrera says she detested the name America as a child. ... 'So I used my middle name, Georgina.' ... When she started acting professionally, she decided to go with her real first name again.". 
  7. ^ It's a 'Bettification' project, USA Today, October 4, 2006
  8. ^ IMDB Press Release, January 19, 2007
  9. ^ White, Kate. "The Time 100: America Ferrera". Time Magazine. http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/time100/article/0,28804,1595326_1595332_1616652,00.html. Retrieved 2007-10-26. 
  10. ^ America Ferrera wins an Imagen
  11. ^ Exclusive: ABC Cancels "Ugly Betty", Entertainment Weekly, January 27, 2010

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