Award-Winning Actor, Director, and Producer
America Ferrera: Biography at a Glance
- America Ferrera earned a Screen Actors Guild, Emmy, Golden Globe, and ALMA Award for her portrayal of "Betty Suarez" on Ugly Betty.
- America shined as part of the star-studded cast of Barbie for which she earned an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Her show-stopping monologue about women's empowerment was one of the most powerful scenes in the film.
- She can be seen in the TV Mini-Series WeCrashed, which details the rise and fall of WeWork, and in Dumb Money, a film based on the true story of everyday people who flipped the script on Wall Street.
- She directed, produced, and starred in the NBC workplace comedy, Superstore, and was the star and executive producer of X/Y, The Dry Land, and Towards Darkness.
- Ferrera is the author of American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures, a vibrant collection of first-person accounts from prominent figures about the experience of growing up between cultures.
- America participated in the PBS documentary series Half the Sky, bringing attention to the hardships underprivileged women and young girls face around the world.
- Through her work with her foundation, HARNESS, and non-profit Poderistas, which she co-founded alongside 9 other activists and leaders, Ferrera has worked to address inequality and inspire action.
Media
- NY Times: America Ferrera and the ‘Barbie’ Monologue We All Talked About
- People: Read America Ferrera's Powerful 'Barbie' Monologue About Being a Woman
- Official Site: America Divided
- Book: American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures
- Podcast: Identity and Integrated Leadership with America Ferrara
- TIME 100: America Ferrera
Videos
Biography
America Ferrera is an award-winning actor, director, and producer known for roles in Ugly Betty, Real Women Have Curves, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Superstore, and Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. For her performance as Gloria in Barbie, she earned Academy Award and Critics Choice Award nominations and received the SeeHer Award. For her breakthrough role in Ugly Betty, Ferrera won an Emmy,, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Golden Globe, and ALMA and Imagen Awards.
Ferrera appeared in Dumb Money, WeCrashed and Paul Greengrass’ feature The Lost Bus. She also executive produced, directed, and starred in Superstore. She executive produced and directed episodes of Netflix series Gentefied and makes her feature directorial debut with an adaptation of Erika Sánchez’s New York Times bestselling novel, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter.
A longtime activist, Ferrera co-founded HARNESS, a community using art and storytelling to create a more equitable world, and helped launch Poderistas, a nonprofit that informs, affirms, and inspires Latinas. She is a founding investor in Angel City Football Club. Her first book, American Like Me, became a New York Times bestseller.
Ferrera founded her production company, Take Fountain, and is a graduate of the University of Southern California, where she studied International Relations while pursuing her film and television career.
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