America Ferrera Trivia | 55 facts about the American actress

America Ferrera is an American actress that rose to fame with her role as “Ugly Betty” and now she is starring in “Barbie”.

So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about the actress.

Her full name is America Georgina Ferrera
She was born April 18, 1984
She is an American actress
Born in Los Angeles to Honduran parents
Ferrera developed an interest in acting at a young age
She performed 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
Ferrera has won an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, among others
Ferrera achieved modest success early in her career with roles in films such as the Disney original film Gotta Kick It Up! (2002) and the comedy-drama The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005)
The latter earned her the Imagen Award for Best Actress and her first nomination for the ALMA Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
She undertook television roles including the eponymous role on the ABC comedy-drama Ugly Betty (2006–2010)
She was praised for playing the protagonist of the series, Betty Suarez
For the role she won several Best Actress awards in 2007 at the Golden Globe Awards, the Screen Actors Guild Awards, and the Primetime Emmy Awards
This made her the first for a Latina woman in the category
Ferrera’s other notable film roles include the drama The Dry Land (2010), the romantic comedy Our Family Wedding (2010), and the crime drama End of Watch (2012)
She provided the voice of Astrid Hofferson in the How to Train Your Dragon franchise, including the three films and the television series Dreamworks Dragons
She co-produced and starred as Amy Sosa in the NBC workplace comedy series Superstore (2015–2021)
Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2007
Ferrera, the youngest of six children, was born in Los Angeles, California
Her parents, América Griselda Ayes and Carlos Gregorio Ferrera, were originally from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and immigrated to the United States in the mid-1970s
Ferrera has stated that she has Lenca ancestry
Her mother worked as the director of the housekeeping staff for one of the Hilton Hotels
Her mother stressed the importance of higher education.[8] When Ferrera was 7, her parents divorced and her father returned to Honduras.[9] Ferrera was estranged from her father when he died there in 2010.[10]
Ferrera was raised in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles
There she attended Calabash Street Elementary School, George Ellery Hale Middle School and El Camino Real High School
At age seven she played a small role in a school production of Hamlet
When she was 10 she played the Artful Dodger in Oliver!
While at El Camino High School, she took acting lessons
She entered the University of Southern California (USC) on a presidential scholarship, double-majoring in theatre and international relations
She dropped out to focus on her acting career, but completed her bachelor’s degree in May 2013
Ferrera first met actor, director, and writer Ryan Piers Williams when he cast her in a student film at USC
The couple got engaged in June 2010
The couple got married on June 27, 2011
On January 1, 2018, Ferrera and Williams revealed that they were expecting their first child
She announced on her Instagram page on May 29, 2018, that she had given birth that month to a boy, Sebastian
On May 4, 2020, Ferrera gave birth to a girl, Lucia
On June 27, 2020, Ferrera announced that she and Williams had been together for a total of 15 years
In 2018, her edited anthology of stories, American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures, was published by Gallery Publishing Group
Ferrera has been politically active
During the 2008 presidential primaries, she, alongside Chelsea Clinton and Amber Tamblyn, led the Hillblazers organization in support of Hillary Clinton’s campaign
Ferrera attended both the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia
At the 2016 convention, she addressed the delegates as a speaker, sharing the stage with Lena Dunham
Ferrera has been active, through her involvement with the organization Voto Latino and by appearing on various news programs, in getting Latinos in the United States to vote
Ferrera also works with Eva Longoria to co-host She Se Puede, a digital lifestyle platform which encourages voting within the Latina community
As a continuation of their work prior to the 2020 presidential campaign, Ferrera and Longoria recently held a textbanking event with VoteRiders to educate voters about Georgia’s strict Voter ID laws ahead of the Georgia Senate runoff
Ferrera was the opening speaker for the Women’s March on Washington on January 21, 2017
Ferrera spoke at the Families Belong Together protest on June 30, 2018
In October 2017, Ferrera began her participation in the #MeToo campaign, publicly revealing that she was sexually harassed when she was 9 years old
She did not reveal any details about the harassment or the person who harassed her
In January 2018, Ferrera was a founding member of the Time’s Up legal defense fund
In July 2020, Ferrera was announced as an investor in a primarily female group that was awarded a Los Angeles-based franchise in the National Women’s Soccer League
The new team, since unveiled as Angel City FC
And started playing in 2022
In April 2019, Ferrera gave a TEDTalk at a TED