Early life

Vergara was born to a Roman Catholic family in Barranquilla. Her mother, Margarita Vergara Dávila de Vergara, was a homemaker, and her father, Julio Enrique Vergara Robayo, was a cattle rancher for the meat industry. She was nicknamed "Toti" by her five siblings and many cousins. Vergara initially studied dentistry at a university in Colombia, but left two semesters away from her degree to pursue opportunities in modeling and show business. She subsequently moved to Miami, Florida, leaving behind unrest in Colombia, where her older brother Rafael was murdered in 1998 during an attempt to kidnap him. Her cousin and adopted sister, Sandra, is also a television actress in the United States.

Career

Vergara was discovered by a photographer while walking on a Colombian beach and was quickly presented with offers of modeling and television work. Vergara was "apprehensive about doing her first television commercial—until her Catholic schoolteachers gave her their personal permission to take the assignment." Vergara made her first appearance, at the age of 17, in a Pepsi commercial which was widely broadcast in Latin America.

In 2011, Vergara was supposed to star in The Paperboy, an independent drama directed by Lee Daniels. When shooting was delayed for a week and conflicted with her Season 3 shooting schedule on Modern Family, she was forced to drop out.

In July 2011, she finished filming the Farrelly brothers' The Three Stooges, which The Daily Beast described as her first major leading role in a film. Vergara has stated, "I play a mean woman that tries to manipulate the Three Stooges into killing her husband so that she gets all the money."

In April 2012, she appeared in her son Manolo's YouTube web series Vida con Toty. Vergara was the highest-earning woman in U.S. television, earning $19 million for the previous 12 months on a list released by Forbes.com on July 18, 2012. Vergara was named one of People magazine's "50 most beautiful people" and has been recognized by the Hollywood Reporter and Billboard as one of the most influential Latin women in Hollywood.

Vergara received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on May 7, 2015.

She currently stars on the ABC sitcom Modern Family as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett, for which she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013.

Endorsements

In 2011, Vergara was named the face of CoverGirl, with the first advertisements appearing in January 2012. In April 2011, Vergara appeared in a Diet Pepsi commercial with David Beckham and another in January 2012.

In 2011, it was announced that Vergara is designing a clothing line for Kmart targeting soccer moms and appeared in a number of commercials for Comcast's Xfinity brand and State Farm.

In 2013, she signed endorsement contracts with Diet Pepsi, Rooms To Go, and medicine Synthroid.

Personal life

Vergara was married at the age of 18 to her high-school sweetheart, Joe Gonzalez. They have a son named Manolo born September 1992. They divorced in 1993.

Vergara was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2000. She had her thyroid removed, underwent radioiodine therapy, and made a full recovery. She takes medication to prevent hypothyroidism.

On May 9, 2011, Vergara's younger brother Julio was deported from the United States to Colombia after being arrested in April that year; Julio also had a longtime drug addiction and previous brushes with the law. Vergara told Parade magazine, "To see somebody dying over 10 years, little by little, that's the worst punishment. Now he's like another person."

On July 10, 2012, it was reported that Vergara and her boyfriend Nicholas M. Loeb were engaged. On May 23, 2014, Vergara announced that the engagement had been called off. On May 1, 2015, it was reported that Vergara and Loeb were in dispute regarding the future of two embryos they had frozen while they were together.

In July 2014, it was reported that Vergara began dating True Blood star Joe Manganiello. The pair became engaged on Christmas Day 2014 after dating for six months. They married in Palm Beach, Florida on November 21, 2015.

Vergara has naturally blonde hair, although she is sometimes asked to dye it brown to make her characters look more stereotypically Hispanic.

During her December 2014 appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Vergara revealed that she had become a United States citizen after getting a perfect score on her citizenship test.

In 2015, Forbes estimated Vergara's annual income at $28.5 million.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	Big Trouble	Nina
2003	Chasing Papi	Cici
2004	The 24th Day	Isabella
2004	Soul Plane	Blanca
2005	Lords of Dogtown	Amelia
2005	Four Brothers	Sofi
2006	Grilled	Loridonna
2006	National Lampoon's Pledge This!	Herself
2008	Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns	Cheryl
2009	Madea Goes to Jail	T.T.
2011	The Smurfs	Odile Anjelou
2011	New Year's Eve	Ava
2011	Happy Feet Two	Carmen	Voice role
2012	The Three Stooges	Lydia Harter
2013	Escape from Planet Earth	Gabby Babblebrook	Voice role
2013	Fading Gigolo	Selima
2013	Machete Kills	Madame Desdemona
2014	Chef	Inez
2015	Wild Card	D. D.
2015	Hot Pursuit	Daniella Riva	Also executive producer
2016	The Brits Are Coming		In post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Acapulco, cuerpo y alma	Irasema
1995-1998	Fuera de serie	Herself	Co-host
1999	A que no te atreves	Herself	Co-host
1999	Baywatch	Herself	Episode: "Boys will be Boys"
2002	My Wife and Kids	Selma	Episode: "Samba Story"
2004	Eve	April Perez	Episode: "Party All the Time"
2004	Rodney	Carmen	Episode: "Dream Lover"
2005	Hot Properties	Lola Hernandez	Main role (13 episodes)
2005	Punk'd	Herself	Season 5, episode 4
2007	Entourage	Village Girl	Episode: "Welcome to the Jungle"
2007	Amas de Casa Desesperadas	Alicia Oviedo	23 episodes
2007	The Knights of Prosperity	Esperanza Villalobos	Main role (13 episodes)
2007	Dirty Sexy Money	Sofía Montoya	4 episodes
2008	Fuego en la sangre	Leonora	10 episodes
2008	Men in Trees	Pilar Romero	2 episodes
2009	Dancing with the Stars	Herself	Guest appearance
2009-present	Modern Family	Gloria Delgado-Pritchett	Main role
2012	Saturday Night Live	Host	Episode: "Sofia Vergara/One Direction"
2013	The Cleveland Show	Señora Chalupa	Episode: "The Essence of Cleveland" (voice)
2013	Family Guy	Flower Saleswoman / Hispanic Woman	Episode: "The Giggity Wife" (voice)
2014	Killer Women	N/A	Executive producer
2016	The Simpsons	Carol Berrera	Episode: "Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles" (voice)

Music video

Year	Title	Artist
1997	"Que Diera"	Carlos Vives

Theatre

Chicago as Matron "Mama" Morton (2009)

Awards and nominations

In 2014, Vergara was ranked as the 32nd most powerful woman in the world by Forbes. She had risen from her 2013 position at no. 38.

Year	Association	Category	Nominated work	Result
2005	Black Reel Awards	Best Ensemble	Four Brothers	Nominated
2009	Screen Actors Guild	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series	Modern Family	Nominated
	ALMA Awards	Best Actress in Film	Madea Goes to Jail	Nominated
2010	Golden Globe Awards	Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries or Television Film	Modern Family	Nominated
	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series		Nominated
	Screen Actors Guild	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series		Nominated
		Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series		Won
2011	ALMA Awards	Favorite TV Actress in a Leading Role		Nominated
	Golden Globe Award	68th Golden Globe Awards#TelevisionBest Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries or Television Film		Nominated
	Imagen Foundation Awards	Best TV Actress		Won
	NAACP Image Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series		Won
	Critics' Choice Television Awards	Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series		Nominated
	Kids' Choice Awards	Favorite Film Actress	The Smurfs	Nominated
	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series	Modern Family	Nominated
	Satellite Awards	Best Supporting TV Actress		Nominated
	Screen Actors Guild	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series		Won
		Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series		Nominated
2012	Screen Actors Guild	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series	Modern Family	Nominated
		Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series		Won
	ALMA Awards	Favorite Movie Actress - Supporting Role	The Three Stooges	Nominated
		Favorite TV Actress in a Leading Role	Modern Family	Nominated
	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series		Nominated
	Golden Globe Awards	Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries or Television Film		Nominated
	Glamour Awards	Comedy Actress	N/A	Won
2013	Screen Actors Guild	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series	Modern Family	Won
	Golden Globe Awards	Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries or Television Film		Nominated
	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series		Nominated
	People's Choice Award	Favorite TV Comedy Actress		Nominated
2014	Golden Globe Awards	Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries or Television Film		Nominated
	NAACP Image Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series		Nominated
	Kids' Choice Awards	Favorite Funny Star		Nominated
2015	NAACP Image Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series		Nominated
	People's Choice Award	Favorite TV Comedy Actress		Nominated
	Screen Actors Guild	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series		Nominated

Charities

Sofia Vergara supports the following charitable cause: Cancer.

[ Source: Wikipedia ]