America Ferrera Biography

Biography

an Angel" and films "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" as well as "Lords of Dogtown". The young actress eventually received a 2005 Movie Line Breakthrough award in late 2005 after she appeared in the off Broadway play "Dog Sees God: Confession of a Teenage Blockhead" while she was attending New York University in 2006.

Continuing her success, she played as Betty Suarez in "Ugly Betty" in 2006, an adaption from a novel titled "Betty La Fea" in which she portrays an ugly woman. Ferrera must wear old fashion clothes, curly hair and make up to make her ugly. She said, "It's definitely a costume. I wear a wig, I wear braces and glasses and exaggerated clothing, and I also bush up my eyebrows. But unfortunately, it only takes me an hour to get into costume, so I'm only an hour away from Ugly Betty myself!" For her role in "Ugly Betty", she won the 2007 Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television series- Comedy or Musical, and has beaten other big nominees such as Marcia Cross, Felicity Huffman, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Mary-Louise Parker. In January 2007, she won the prestigious Screen Actor Guild Award for ...

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Best Female Actor in a Comedy series for the same role. She also starred in and executive produced the poignant short film "Muertas".

Ferrera has been in relationship with Ryan Piers Williams since they were in college. William is an aspiring film director from Texas and was an assistant director of Steven Soderbergh in 2007. They first met while working on his student film at USC. She said, ''He makes me very happy. There's nothing more valuable than having someone in your life who reminds you who you are, and he does that. I love that we don't need to be together, but that we want to. That was a really hard lesson for me to learn in high school. Finding and having a boyfriend in high school was the thing that made a girl feel worthy. In a good relationship, you can live without them, but when they are there, it's because you want them to be. I think that's a great lesson for girls. You have to love yourself before anyone else can really love you. I think that's the only real truth that I know."

Ferrera will appear on "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2" in ...