Sofia Vergara Trivia | 50 facts about the actress

Sofía Vergara is a Colombian and American actress, model, and television personality.

1. Her full name is Sofía Margarita Vergara.
2. She was born on July 10th, 1972.
3. Her zodic sign is Cancer.
4. She is a Colombian and American actress, model, and television personality.
5. She rose to prominence while co-hosting two television shows for Spanish-language television network Univision in the late 1990s.
6. Her first notable acting job in English was in the film Chasing Papi (2003).
7. She subsequently appeared in Four Brothers (2005) and Tyler Perry’s comedies Meet the Browns (2008) and Madea Goes to Jail (2009), receiving an ALMA Award nomination for the latter.
8. Sofia Vergara has appeared in other films including New Year’s Eve (2011), The Three Stooges (2012), Machete Kills (2013), Fading Gigolo (2013), Chef (2014), and Hot Pursuit (2015).
9. She has also had voice-over roles in the animated films Happy Feet Two (2011), Escape from Planet Earth (2013), and The Emoji Movie (2017)
10. From 2009 to 2020, Vergara played Gloria Delgado-Pritchett in the ABC comedy series Modern Family.
11. For her role in «Modern Family» she was nominated for four Golden Globe Awards, four Primetime Emmy Awards, and eleven Screen Actors Guild Awards.
12. Since 2020, she has been a judge on the television talent show competition America’s Got Talent.
13. She was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2000, but after treatment has had a full recovery.
14. As of July 18, 2012, Vergara was the highest-earning woman in American television, taking in $19 million for the past 12 months on a list released by Forbes.com.
15. While living in Colombia, she used to watch the Spanish-dubbed version of Married with Children(1987) featuring her co-star-to-be Ed O’Neill.
16. After she landed the role as Ed’s wife Gloria on Modern Familyα (2009), she was disappointed to learn that Ed spoke no Spanish.
17. Gave birth to her first child at age 20, son Manolo Gonzalez Vergara, on 9/16/92. Child’s father is her now ex-husband, Joe Gonzalez.
18. As a young girl, she was so self-conscious of her thin frame, she used to wear two pairs of jeans to fill out her figure.
19. Her older brother was murdered in a bungled kidnapping attempt in 1998. She later brought her son, mother and sister with her to live in the US.
20. Announced on Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003) that she had become a United States citizen.
21. Despite having played her daughter on Μοντέρνα οικογένεια (2009), she was just 13 years younger than the late Elizabeth Peña.
22. After her divorce she studied pre-dentistry at a Colombian university for three years.
23. Already a prominent celebrity in Colombia, in 1994 and 1995 she was a guest host at the Viña del Mar International Song Festival, one of Latin America’s most important music competitions.
24. Attended Marymount School Barranquilla, a private bilingual Spanish/English school.
25. Her son is named Manolo after the character of the same name from Scarface (1983).
26. She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 7013 Hollywood Blvd. in Hollywood, CA on 5/7/2015.
27. Is a natural blonde.
28. Her younger brother was deported from the US to Colombia on 5/9/2011 after being arrested in April; he also had a longtime drug addiction.
29. Older sister of Sandra Vergara. Aunt of Claudia Vergara.
30. On the set of The Three Stooges (2012), perennial prankster and director Peter Farrelly used to affectionately refer to her as Sofia Viagra.
31. Ranked #1 in “Ask” men’s top 99 “most desirable” women of 2012.
32. Has a clothing line at Walmart.
33. Ranked #80 in “FHM” magazine’s “100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005” supplement.
34. Her first and second husbands share the same name – Joe.
35. Ranked #12 in “Ask” men’s top 99 “most desirable” women of 2013.
36. Ranked #38 in “Stuff” magazine’s “102 Sexiest Women in the World” (2003).
37. Ranked #56 in “Stuff” magazine’s “102 Sexiest Women in the World” (2002).
38. Ranked #23 on “Maxim” magazine’s Hot 100 Women of 2002 list.
39. Ranked #30 in “Ask” men’s top 99 “most desirable” women of 2002.
40. Ranked #25 on “Maxim” magazine’s Hot 100 Women of 2005 list.
41. Ranked #39 on “Maxim” magazine’s Hot 100 Women of 2008 list.
42. Ranked #47 on “Maxim” magazine’s Hot 100 Women of 2010 list.
43. Was featured as #23 on “Maxim” magazine’s Hot 100 Women of 2002 supplement.
44. Ranked #66 in the 2002 “FHM-USA” list of “100 Sexiest Women in the World”.
45. Ranked #54 on “Maxim” magazine’s Hot 100 Women of 2014 list.
46. Ranked #98 in the 2001 “FHM-USA” list of “100 Sexiest Women in the World”.
47. Vergara has naturally blonde hair.
48. In June 2016, the Human Rights Campaign released a video in tribute to the victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting; in the video, Vergara and others told the stories of the people killed there.
49. Since 2015 she’s married to Joe Manganiello.
50. Although she is known mostly for playing Gloria on Modern Family and for her modeling before that, Vergara was only two semesters away from completing dentistry school in Colombia before dropping out in order to become a television host.