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Birth date
America was born April 18 1984. The youngest of six children, was born in Los Angeles, California. Her parents, América Griselda Ayes and Carlos Gregorio Ferrera. -
Gotta kick up
While a student at El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills, Calif., Ferrera, 16, films Disney Channel's Gotta Kick It Up! She plays one of a handful of Latina girls transformed into a championship dance team. -
Real women have curves
Ferrera plays Ana Garcia, a first-generation Mexican American who wants to go to college instead of work at her family's sewing business. She earns a Sundance Jury Award for Best Actress in the cross-cultural drama/comedy -
When America met Ryan
America met Ryan Piers Williams when she was 19 years old. Ryan Piers Williams is an aspiring director. The two begin dating and eventually move in together with their golden retriever, Buddy. -
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
The film based on Ann Brashares' best-selling teen novel centers around lifelong friends who spend their first summer apart, but connect by shipping a pair of jeans to each other. -
Ugly betty
America plays the role of Betty Suarez an untractive fashion magazine assistant who has bushy eyebrows, snap-on braces and frumpy frocks to play Betty Suarez. The show is based of the popular Columbian telenovela, Yo Soy Betty Le Fea -
Saluting America
Ferrera's performance as Betty earns her a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy Series and a Screen Actors Guild award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series. -
Hot betty
High-fashion magazine W reveals the gorgeous woman underneath the Ugly Betty costume. America says, "Everything that's happened to me in the last year has only made me feel more like a normal person, more human, but in the most beautiful way." -
People magazine
She lands a spot on PEOPLE's 100 Most Beautiful list. She says "I am more comfortable being Betty than being on a red carpet all glammed up," -
America wins an Emmy
America Ferrera wins the Emmy for Best Actress in a Comedy Series at the 2007 Emmy Awards. "It is truly an amazing and wonderful thing that happens when your dreams come true, and I just wish that for everybody, that they get to do what inspires them," Ferrera says during her acceptance speech. -
The Sisterhood Sequel
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2. She played the role of Carmen Lowell. She is the one most insistent on keeping the sisters together through the Traveling Pants, which she first found. She is the "glue" keeping the Sisterhood together. -
Bye-Bye, Betty
After four seasons of struggles, breakups, murders, kidnappings, extortion attempts, and fashion emergencies, the cast of Ugly Betty damn well earned a happy ending. "Then Betty came around. I was 21 when I started and I’ve learned so much and grown so much as a person." -
America Gets Engaged
America Ferrara is engaged to her longtime boyfriend, Ryan Piers Williams. The two met at University of Southern California when Williams cast Ferrara in one of his student films. -
Surprise wedding
The 27-year-old Ugly Betty actress met her now-husband, a filmmaker, when they were students at the University of Southern California. After 8 years.. America and Ryan got married.
