Biography

Sofia Vergara

by Sahra Mishra,

Synopsis

Sofia Vergara, born as Sofia Margarita Vergara Verga, is the name of a Colombian actress, comedian, television hostess and a model. She is popular as a co-host of the two television shows for Spanish language television network Univision in the late 90s. She is a very talented actor as well. She has played on the multiple of the movies as well as television series.

She has been nominated for the Golden Globe Awards for four times, Primetime Emmy Awards for four times and also to the Screen Actors Guild Awards for the seven times and has been the winner of several awards.

This proves her talent and her magic in the acting arena. She has been ranked 32nd  as the most powerful woman in the world by the Forbes magazine as of 2014.

Early Life and Education

Born to parents Margarita Vergara Davila de Vergara, a housewife and Julio Enrique Vergara Robayo, a cattle producer for the meat industry, in the year 1972 July 10 at Barranquilla, Atlantico, Colombia, Sofia Vergara is one of the most sensations and in demand personality today. 

She has five brothers and sisters and owns the nickname of Toti. She is a devout Catholic and had gone to a private bilingual Spanish/English School called Marymount School Barranquilla.

Going further in her personal life, she was married at the age of 18 with her childhood sweetheart and best friend but the marriage did not last for long and within two years, she got divorced. The name of her first husband is Joe Gonzalez. They got divorced in 1993. As a fruit of their marriage, she has a son named Manolo born in 1992. He is the only child she has and no other children so far.

Career

She was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2000 for which she removed her thyroid and went through the iodine radiation therapy. She is fully recovered now but has been in the regular intake of her medication to control the symptoms of hypothyroidism. Talking more on her broken relationships and love life, she has been regularly on the news for dating different stars, break ups and so. In 2013/2014, she had dated with her scion boyfriend Nick Loeb.

They got engaged but the engagement was called off. She recovered early from the tragedy and began to date with True Blood star Joe Manganiello since July 2014. She is 12 years old. Still young and gorgeous, an in demand actress and a famous personality. She can lure any one with her beauty. She was named as the new face to the CoverGirl in 2011.

She has appeared in the ad of Diet Pepsi alongside David Beckham in 2012. She has also appeared in several of the commercials for Comcast’s Xfinity brand and State Farm. She even had announced to design a clothing line for Kmart targeting the soccer moms. In 2013, she signed with Diet Pepsi, Room to go and medicine Synthroid for its endorsement.

A very attractive personality Sofia Vergara stands the beautiful height of five feet and seven inches. She has maintained her weight and has been taking care of her food intake to balance her weight. She has amazingly seducing sexy body with perfectly curvy body measurements accompanied the a pair of long and tones legs, radiating skin tone, lusciously bulky blonde hair, dazzling eyes and the charming smile.

Personal Life and Affairs

To talk, how she made into the entertainment arena, after her divorce from her first husband, she studied pre-dentistry at the University of Colombia for three years. However, the opportunities for her to work as a model and in show business arouse so much that she decided to go for it leaving her undergraduates studies. She moved to Miami from Colombia.

The opportunities had knocked by her as she was discovered by a photographer while walking on the Colombian beach. She was 17, when she first appeared in the Pepsi commercial broadcasted widely in Latin America. When she was 20, she moved to Bogotá. She was divorced that time and began to work as a runway model and television actress.

She got her debut in the television screen in the year 1995 appearing as Irasema in the television show Acapulco, cuerpo y alma. She is best known for her work in television series as a co-host of the show Fuear de serie from 1995-1998.

Then after, she has been regularly seen in many of the famous series such as Baywatch, Hot Properties, Entourage, Men in Trees, Saturday Night Live, etc. She can be seen currently in Modern Family as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett.

Talking about her movie appearance, it started since 2002. Then after, she has been the regular face in it too. She made her debut acting in Big Toruble as Nina in 2002. The other of the movies she appeared in are Chasing Papi, Four Brothers, Madea Goes to Jail, The Smurfs, The Three Stooges, Fading Gigolo, etc. She has given her voice as Carmen in Happy Feet 2 and as Gabby Babblebrook in Escape from the Planet Earth.

Her recent work is Wild Card as D.D which is now complete to and ready to hit the theatres and another one Don’t Mess with Texas is being filmed.

Net Worth and Body Measurements

She has been ranked on Maxim Magazine’s Hot 100 list in 2008. She was also listed as one of the 50 most beautiful people by the People magazine.

She has been the highest-earning woman in the U.S television having the earning of $19 million in the 12 months as of July 2012. She enjoys a very high net worth and a very satisfactory salary pay.  She has been recognized as one of the most influential Latin Women in Hollywood by the Hollywood Reporter and Billboard.

Social media involvements

There is a long queue of her fans followings. As she is not married, a lot of men have eyes on her trying to tie their luck with her. A long list of her fans wants to know on her. She can be followed in her Facebook, Twitter and Instagram account where her fans can be updated with her recent activities through her posts.

Also going through her biography, available articles, pictures, and videos that are widely available in the different internet sites can be the other better ways to know about her more. 

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