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America Ferrera is a Actor and Producer American born on 18 april 1984 at Los Angeles (USA)

America Ferrera

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Birth name America Georgina Ferrera
Nationality USA
Birth 18 april 1984 (39 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

America Georgine Ferrera (born April 18, 1984) is an American actress. She is known for her leading role as Betty Suarez on the American Broadcasting Company's comedy-drama television series Ugly Betty (2006–2010). Her acting garnered critical acclaim, and she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series, and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.

She has featured in a number of movies, including Real Women Have Curves (2002), The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005), its sequel The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008), The Dry Land (2010), End of Watch (2012), and Our Family Wedding (2010). She also had a small role in the skateboard biopic Lords of Dogtown (2005). In addition, Ferrera provides the voice of Astrid the Viking in the DreamWorks animated picture How to Train Your Dragon (2010), Cartoon Network's television series based on the film Dragons: Riders of Berk, Dragons: Defenders of Berk and the sequel, How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014). Ferrera will mark her return to television as a regular and co-producer on the upcoming situation comedy Superstore, which was bought by NBC for the 2015-16 television season.

Biography

Ferrera first met actor, director, and writer Ryan Piers Williams when he cast her in a student film at the University of Southern California. The couple became engaged in June 2010, and married on June 27, 2011.

In May 2013, Ferrera graduated from the University of Southern California, earning a bachelor's degree in International relations, which took her ten years to complete.

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Filmography of America Ferrera (22 films)

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How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, 1h44
Directed by Dean DeBlois
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Films about dragons, Films set in the Viking Age
Actors Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, F. Murray Abraham, America Ferrera, Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Roles Astrid (voice)
Rating74% 3.7077753.7077753.7077753.7077753.707775
Un an après la mort de Stoïck la Brute et la défaite de Drago. Harold Horrib'Haddock III est devenu chef de Beurk, conseillé par sa mère et ses amis avec qui il lance des raids pour libérer les dragons des chasseurs et les mener à son village où ils vivent libres. Mais alors que la petite île devient surpeuplée, Harold pense à quitter le village pour le Monde caché, une terre légendaire d'où viennent les dragons et que Stoïck a recherchée, pour pouvoir mieux les protéger des multiples attaques de chasseurs. Au même moment, les seigneurs de guerre, qui étaient les généraux de Drago, engagent Grimmel le Grave, un tueur de dragons connu pour haïr les Furies nocturnes et pour les avoir éradiqués depuis son enfance, afin de capturer Krokmou, considéré comme l'Alpha, le roi parmi les dragons, et lui laissent une Furie Éclair femelle pour l'appâter, les Furie étant monogames.
Special Correspondents
Directed by Ricky Gervais
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about journalists, Buddy films
Actors Eric Bana, Ricky Gervais, Vera Farmiga, Kelly Macdonald, Kevin Pollak, Benjamin Bratt
Roles Brigida
Rating58% 2.9488952.9488952.9488952.9488952.948895
Un journaliste radio à New York se voit obligé de partir couvrir un conflit pour sauver sa place...
How to Train Your Dragon 2, 1h42
Directed by Dean DeBlois
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about dragons, Films set in the Viking Age, Children's films
Actors Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, America Ferrera, Craig Ferguson, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Roles Astrid (voice)
Rating77% 3.898333.898333.898333.898333.89833
Five years after the Viking village of Berk made peace with the dragons, they now live among the villagers as helpful companions. Hiccup goes on adventures with his dragon, Toothless, as they discover and map unexplored lands. Now 20 years old, he is being pressed by his father, Stoick the Vast, to succeed him as chieftain, although Hiccup remains unsure if he is ready for this responsibility.
Cesar Chavez, 1h41
Directed by Diego Luna
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about the labor movement, Political films
Actors Rosario Dawson, America Ferrera, Michael Peña, Gabriel Mann, Yancey Arias, Wes Bentley
Roles Helen Chavez
Rating63% 3.197983.197983.197983.197983.19798
The film follows Chávez's efforts to organize 50,000 farm workers in California, some of whom were braceros—temporary workers from Mexico permitted to live and work in the United States in agriculture, and required to return to Mexico if they stopped working. Working conditions are very poor for the braceros, who also suffer from racism and brutality at the hands of the employers and local Californians. To help the workers, César Chávez (Michael Peña) forms a labor union known as the United Farm Workers (UFW). Chávez's efforts opposed, sometimes violently, by the owners of the large industrial farms where the braceros work. The film touches on several major nonviolent campaigns by the UFW: the Delano grape strike, the Salad Bowl strike, and the 1975 Modesto march.
It's a Disaster, 1h28
Directed by Todd Berger
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Rachel Boston, David Cross, America Ferrera, Julia Stiles, Erinn Hayes, Todd Berger
Roles Hedy Galili
Rating63% 3.199123.199123.199123.199123.19912
Four couples gather for a regular brunch which, over the years, has devolved into a gathering fraught with tension and awkwardness. One guest is meeting the others for the first time, on his third date with the host's sister. As they settle into the afternoon (awaiting an "always late" fifth couple), they get to know the new member of the group and catch up on old times. When the men excuse themselves to watch football, they discover the TV, Internet and landline phones are down. When the host accuses his wife of not paying the bills, their upcoming divorce is revealed to the guests.
End of Watch, 1h49
Directed by David Ayer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Hip hop films, Gangster films
Actors Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Peña, Anna Kendrick, America Ferrera, Natalie Martinez, Frank Grillo
Roles Officer Orozco
Rating75% 3.7982553.7982553.7982553.7982553.798255
The film begins with found footage from a Police dash camera of a car chase which ends in two police officers killing several gang members. This is all narrated by a monologue about what it means to be a police officer.
Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury, 22minutes
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Films about dragons, Children's films
Actors Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, T. J. Miller
Roles Astrid Hofferson (voice)
Rating75% 3.785363.785363.785363.785363.78536
During a set of winter holidays, all the dragons of Berk unexpectedly depart, leaving everyone distraught. The only exception seems to be of Toothless, who cannot fly independently. Out of compassion, Hiccup creates him a new prosthesis allowing him independent flight, and thus allows his escape. Three days later, Meatlug, a Gronkle dragon whom Fishlegs had kept chained, escapes, inadvertently taking Hiccup. Meatlug travels to a sulfur-hot springs island where the other dragons have been hatching their eggs. Astrid and the gang also discover Dragon eggs in Meatlug's nest, which they scatter around Berk in hopes of lifting the villagers' spirits. This plan backfires because dragon eggs hatch with an explosion, devastating Berk.
Book of Dragons, 18minutes
Directed by Steve Hickner
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Animation
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Films about dragons, Children's films
Actors Jay Baruchel, Jim Cummings, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Tress MacNeille
Roles Astrid (voice)
Rating65% 3.298793.298793.298793.298793.29879
Happening after the events in How to Train Your Dragon, the short shows Hiccup, Astrid, Fishlegs, Toothless and Gobber telling the legend behind the Book of Dragons with the misadventures of its author, Bork the Bold. In addition to Bork's discoveries, the young Vikings reveal their own training methods they developed with new, never before seen dragons. The short shows a total of 14 dragons, each spread into 7 classes: Stoker (Terrible Terror, Monstrous Nightmare), Boulder (Gronckle, Whispering Death), Fear (Hideous Zippleback, Snaptrapper), Sharp (Deadly Nadder, Timberjack), Tidal (Scauldron, Thunderdrum), Mystery (Changewing, Boneknapper) and Strike (Skrill, Night Fury). But there are new dragons that are not in the book that are shown in the cartoon series.
How to Train Your Dragon, 1h38
Directed by Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about dragons, Films set in the Viking Age, Children's films
Actors Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, America Ferrera, Craig Ferguson, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Roles Astrid Hofferson (voice)
Rating80% 4.047824.047824.047824.047824.04782
The island of Berk is a remote Viking village, from which dragons periodically steal livestock. Hiccup, the awkward son of the village chieftain, Stoick the Vast, is too small to fight the dragons and instead fashions mechanical devices under his apprenticeship with Gobber the blacksmith, though his inventions often backfire. During one attack, Hiccup believes he has shot down a Night Fury, an extremely rare and dangerous dragon. Hiccup later finds it in the forest trapped in his bolas, but finds that he can't bring himself to kill the dragon and instead sets it free. Stoick assembles a fleet to find the dragons' nest, leaving Hiccup in a dragon-fighting class taught by Gobber. Hiccup returns to the forest to find the Night Fury still there, and realizes it is unable to fly properly because of its crippled caudal fin. Hiccup gradually tames the dragon and gives it the name "Toothless", for its retractable teeth. Hiccup makes a harness and prosthetic fin that allows him to guide the dragon in free flight. By studying Toothless' behavior, Hiccup becomes proficient in subduing the captive dragons during training. Stoick's fleet arrives home unsuccessful, but he is cheered by Hiccup's unexpected success.
Our Family Wedding, 1h30
Directed by Rick Famuyiwa
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Forest Whitaker, America Ferrera, Carlos Mencia, Regina King, Anna Maria Horsford, Shannyn Sossamon
Roles Lucia Ramirez
Rating50% 2.506282.506282.506282.506282.50628
Marcus Boyd (Lance Gross), a young African-American, has recently graduated from Columbia Medical School and is headed to Laos for a year to work with Doctors Without Borders. Unbeknownst to their respective parents, Marcus and his fiancee Lucia Ramirez (America Ferrera), who is Mexican-American, have been living together and would like to get married before they both head off to Laos together.
The Dry Land, 1h32
Directed by Ryan Piers Williams
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors America Ferrera, Melissa Leo, Jason Ritter, Ethan Suplee, Wilmer Valderrama, Evan Jones
Roles Sarah
Rating56% 2.8059652.8059652.8059652.8059652.805965
James (Ryan O'Nan) returns from Iraq to face a new battle returning to his small-town life in Texas. His wife (America Ferrera), his mother (Melissa Leo), and his friend (Jason Ritter) provide support, but they can't fully understand the pain and suffering he feels since his tour of duty ended. Lonely, James reconnects with an army buddy, Raymond (Wilmer Valderrama), who provides him with compassion and friendship during his battle to process his experiences in Iraq. But their reunion also exposes the different ways that war affects people, at least on the surface. This moving story of redemption and reconstruction extends beyond a post-traumatic-stress-disorder narrative. O'Nan's performance is moving as he explores the depths of his internal struggle; Ferrera fearlessly tackles her role of a young wife in turmoil. The Dry Land is about one man's fight within his own terrain, his country, his home, and his mental health. He fights to rebuild what he lost.
Legend of the BoneKnapper Dragon, 16minutes
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about dragons, Children's films
Actors Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, T. J. Miller
Roles Astrid Hofferson (voice)
Rating68% 3.444053.444053.444053.444053.44405
The film opens with Gobber's house on fire and the Vikings and resident dragons getting it under control. Gobber is convinced that his old nemesis The Boneknapper Dragon, a giant, yet perfectly silent dragon (the only one with no roar) that clothes itself in bones for armor, is responsible. However no one else believes that the Boneknapper even exists, much less that it burned his house, especially when the evidence suggests that the fire was started by his underwear drying at his hearth and catching fire.
Tinker Bell, 1h29
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films, Les fées, Children's films
Actors Mae Whitman, Kristin Chenoweth, Raven-Symoné, Lucy Liu, America Ferrera, Jane Horrocks
Roles Fawn (voice)
Rating68% 3.4014953.4014953.4014953.4014953.401495
Tinker Bell (Mae Whitman) is born from the first laugh of a baby, and is brought by the winds to Pixie Hollow (which is part of the island of Never Land). She learns that her talent is to be one of the tinkers, the fairies who make and fix things. Two other tinker fairies, Bobble (Rob Paulsen) and Clank (Jeff Bennett), teach her their craft, and tell her about the fairies who visit the mainland to bring each season. Tinker Bell is thrilled and cannot wait to go to the mainland for spring.