Sofia Vergara had the best birthday! The Colombian star that made her way into film, theater and television in the United States since the mid-90s celebrated her 45th birthday (July 10, 1972) earlier this month.
Currently starring on the ABC series Modern Family as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett, for which she has been nominated for four Golden Globe Awards, Sofia Vergara has made the world believe for almost three decades that she is nothing more than a woman with extreme beauty and a little brain, to whom success just smiled at her.
Sofía Margarita Vergara Vergara rose to prominence while co-hosting two television shows for Spanish-language television network Univisión in the late 1990s.
The succees and recognition that the Colombian has achieved has been fueled by what she does not say, because in reality “Toti” – as her close friends call her – is an outstanding woman who has fought and overcome adversity to become one of the great Divas of the world.
She poses for the cameras with excessive sensuality and is scandalous; Although she speaks fluent English, in front of the lens the actress talks with a false accent, with grammatical errors and even bad pronunciations, just because that’s the character she created for her public life.
“She realized that while most Latin stars were trying to conquer the American market by speaking a perfect language, she could do it by turning it around. And that is just one of the many tests of her intelligence,” summed up Semana magazine in a report published about Vergara in 2012.
According to Forbes.com, Vergara is among the world’s highest-paid celebrities. Last month, Forbes in its 2017 Celebrity 100 Earnings, said “Vergara is the only female actor on this year’s Celebrity 100 has more than her small screen role as Gloria on ‘Modern Family’ to thank for her millions (US$41.5 million). Vergara has secured lucrative licensing deals with SharkNinja Coffee and Rooms To Go, and her perfumes are among the top-selling celebrity fragrances internationally.”
Vergara was born in Barranquilla. Her mother, Margarita Vergara de Vergara, was a homemaker, and her father, Julio Enrique Vergara Robayo, was a cattle rancher for the meat industry. She was nicknamed “Toti” by her five siblings and many cousins. Following three years at of studying dentistry at a university in Colombia, she but left two semesters away from her degree to pursue opportunities in modeling and show business.
