America Ferrera
America Georgina Ferrera (born April 18, 1984) is an American actress. She has received numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to an Academy Award nomination. In 2007, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Born in Los Angeles to Honduran parents, Ferrera developed an interest in acting at a young age, performing 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. She achieved modest success early in her career with roles in films such as the comedy-dramas Gotta Kick It Up! (2002) and 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 garnered further critical acclaim and recognition for her starring role as Betty Suarez in the ABC comedy-drama series Ugly Betty (2006–2010). For her performance, she won a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, 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), the crime drama End of Watch (2012), and the fantasy comedy Barbie (2023). 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).
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 14.918 |
Birthday | 1984-04-18 |
Place of Birth | Los Angeles, California, USA |
Also Known As | 아메리카 퍼레라, |
2008
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
6.2/748
Four young women continue the journey toward adulthood that began with "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants." Now three years later, these lifelong...
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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
2010
How to Train Your Dragon
7.825/12646
As the son of a Viking leader on the cusp of manhood, shy Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III faces a rite of passage: he must kill a dragon to prove his wa...
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How to Train Your Dragon
2006
Steel City
6.2/10
After a tragic accident caused by the truck of the middle-aged Carl Lee where a woman dies with a crushed stern, he is arrested and sent to the county...
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Steel City
2005
How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer
5.5/6
Three generations of women in a Mexican American family experience sexual awakenings over the course of a summer.
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How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer
2005
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
6.49/1256
Four best friends (Tibby, Lena, Carmen & Bridget) who buy a mysterious pair of pants that fits each of them, despite their differing sizes, and ma...
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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
2008
Tinker Bell
6.852/1354
Journey into the secret world of Pixie Hollow and hear Tinker Bell speak for the very first time as the astonishing story of Disney's most famous fair...
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Tinker Bell
2010
Our Family Wedding
5.7/123
The weeks leading up to a young couple's wedding is comic and stressful, especially as their respective fathers try to lay to rest their feud.
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Our Family Wedding
2010
The Dry Land
5/6
A U.S. soldier returning home from war struggles to reconcile his experiences abroad with the life and family he left in Texas.
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The Dry Land
2007
Towards Darkness
5.6/7
About a kidnapped hostage's life, and the frustration his family, a special ops team, and a man in charge of delivering the ransom money all feel as t...
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Towards Darkness
2010
Legend of the BoneKnapper Dragon
6.798/223
The film follows Hiccup and his young fellows accompanying their mentor, Gobber, on a quest to kill the legendary Boneknapper Dragon. An extra that ac...
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Legend of the BoneKnapper Dragon
2014
How to Train Your Dragon 2
7.672/9310
Five years have passed since Hiccup and Toothless united the dragons and Vikings of Berk. Now, they spend their time charting unmapped territories. Du...
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How to Train Your Dragon 2
2011
Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury
7.11/349
Hiccup and Toothless go on an exciting adventure and discover an island of new dragons.
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Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury
2012
End of Watch
7.34/3101
Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel during a routine...
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End of Watch
2011
Book of Dragons
6.617/162
So you want to be a dragon trainer do you? Prepare yourself for adventure, excitement and training as Hiccup, Astrid, Toothless and Gobber tell the le...
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Book of Dragons
2002
Gotta Kick It Up!
6.6/41
This was going to be the first year that Marshal Middle School was not going to have a dance team. All that changes when the new Biology teacher, Ms....
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Gotta Kick It Up!
2013
It's a Disaster
6.324/211
Four couples meet for Sunday brunch only to discover they are stuck in a house together as the world may be about to end.
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It's a Disaster
2012
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
7.4/5
PBS series documentary based on a book of the same name that argues the oppression of women worldwide is the "paramount moral challenge" of our time.
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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
2014
Cesar Chavez
6.2/55
A biography of the civil-rights activist and labor organizer Cesar Chavez. Chronicling the birth of a modern American labour movement, Cesar Chavez t...
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Cesar Chavez
2007
La Lupe: Queen of Latin Soul
8.2/2
A born rebel and innovator, Lupe Yoli aka La Lupe or La Yiyiyi was renowned for her emotional performances. Her renditions of classics such as "My Way...
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La Lupe: Queen of Latin Soul
2013
Six by Sondheim
7.313/24
This intimate documentary explores the life and career of the stage legend Stephen Sondheim through six of his best-known songs.
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Six by Sondheim
2014
X/Y
4.6/19
As Mark, Jen, Sylvia, and Jake navigate through their emotionally-arrested states, X/Y reveals the honest and wanton desire we all have to connect wit...
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X/Y
2014
Dragons: Dawn of the Dragon Racers
7.211/327
A hunt for a lost sheep turns into a competition between Hiccup and friends as they compete to become the first Dragon Racing champion of Berk.
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Dragons: Dawn of the Dragon Racers
2008
Under the Same Moon
7.706/233
Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illeg...
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Under the Same Moon
2016
Special Correspondents
5.768/498
A radio journalist and his technician get in over their heads when they hatch a scheme to fake their own kidnapping during a rebel uprising in South A...
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Special Correspondents
2017
100 Years
6/7
An animated history of American health care provider, Planned Parenthood.
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100 Years
2011
The Latino List
8/2
Documentary film interviews leading Latinos on race, identity, and achievement.
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The Latino List
2002
Real Women Have Curves
6/73
Freshly graduated from high school, Ana receives a full scholarship to Columbia University. Her very traditional, old-world parents feel that now is t...
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Real Women Have Curves
2017
The Words That Built America
6/13
In recognition of the 4th of July, several celebrities and politicians of differing ideologies join to read the historic documents which laid the foun...
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The Words That Built America
2007
Muertas
10/1
A young American journalist attempts to piece together the fractured memories of a love lost amidst the ongoing Juarez, Mexico murders.
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Muertas
2016
The 4%: Film's Gender Problem
3.3/3
Explores the hot-button issues around the striking gender gap in Hollywood. Both women and men in the entertainment industry share first-person insigh...
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The 4%: Film's Gender Problem
2011
Me Facing Life: Cyntoia's Story
6/3
In 2004, Cyntoia Brown was arrested for the murder of a 43-year-old man. Cyntoia was a prostitute and he was her client.
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Me Facing Life: Cyntoia's Story
2019
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
7.751/6166
As Hiccup fulfills his dream of creating a peaceful dragon utopia, Toothless’ discovery of an untamed, elusive mate draws the Night Fury away. When da...
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How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
2019
How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming
8.032/900
It's been ten years since the dragons moved to the Hidden World, and even though Toothless doesn't live in New Berk anymore, Hiccup continues the holi...
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How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming
2004
Plainsong
6.611/9
Tom Guthrie, a high school history teacher, is faced with raising two young sons after his wife leaves him. Maggie Jones, a fellow teacher, tries to p...
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Plainsong
2017
Katy Perry: Will You Be My Witness?
7.3/6
In her new YouTube Red Original Movie, the colorful pop icon puts her life on camera 24/7 for four whole days, in her most intimate reveal yet. Join K...
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Katy Perry: Will You Be My Witness?
2010
How to Train Your Dragon - Legends
7.605/57
Prepare for high-flying adventures with Hiccup, Toothless and the rest of the Dragon Trainers. Meet new dragons, learn the secrets of the legendary Bo...
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How to Train Your Dragon - Legends
2020
Every Vote Counts: A Celebration of Democracy
3/1
A star-studded, bipartisan special featuring appearances and performances from a variety of entertainment luminaries. Co-hosted by America Ferrera, Al...
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Every Vote Counts: A Celebration of Democracy
2004
Darkness Minus Twelve
10/1
A kidnap hostage in Colombia lives twelve minutes of fear as his family, a man in charge of delivering the ransom money, and a special ops team all ru...
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Darkness Minus Twelve
2005
Lords of Dogtown
7.1/724
The radical true story behind three teenage surfers from Venice Beach, California, who took skateboarding to the extreme and changed the world of spor...
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Lords of Dogtown
2023
Barbie
7.053/8443
Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to...
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Barbie
2021
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
7.4/12
Rita Moreno defied both her humble upbringing and relentless racism to become one of a select group who have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award...
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2025
Elio
0/0
Elio, an underdog with an active imagination, finds himself inadvertently beamed up to the Communiverse, an interplanetary organization with represent...
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Elio
2023
Dumb Money
6.72/389
Vlogger Keith Gill sinks his life savings into GameStop stock and posts about it. When social media starts blowing up, so do his life and the lives of...
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Dumb Money
The Lost Bus
0/0
Bus driver Kevin McKay and school teacher Mary Ludwig navigate a bus full of children through a deadly wildfire as the town of Paradise is caught in t...
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