Sofia Margarita Vergara

Sofia Margarita Vergara is a Colombian-American actor and presenter. Vergara was the highest-paid American actress from 2013 until 2020. Vergara gained prominence hosting two television shows in Spanish for Univision in late 1990s. Chasing Papi (2003) was Vergara's first significant acting gig in English. She then appeared in Four Brothers (2005) and Tyler Perry's comedy Meet the Browns (2008) and Madea Goes to Jail (2009) with an ALMA Award nomination for the last. She first played Gloria Delgado–Pritchett on ABC's comedy series Modern Family, for which she was nominated for four Golden Globe Awards, four Primetime Emmy Awards and eleven Screen Actor Guild Awards. She also voiced characters in animated films Happy Feet Two (2011). Escape from Planet Earth (2013). and The Emoji Movie (2018). Vergara was also the most-paid Hollywood actress of 2020[citation neededfor 2020[citation needed]. Since 2020, Vergara has been a judge on America's Got Talent. Vergara was born into a Roman Catholic family in Barranquilla.  Her mother, Margarita Vergara de Vergara was a homemaker and her father, Julio Enrique Vergara Robayo was a cattle rancher in the meat industry. In the eyes of her five siblings as well as many of her cousins, she was referred to as "Toti". Vergara studied three years of dentistry at National University of Colombia. But, she chose to drop two semesters before graduation to explore modeling and showbusiness opportunities.