Sofia Vergara turns 50 and prepares a miniseries for Netflix

For the American public it is Sofia Vergara the crazy Gloria Delgado of the comedy Modern Family, for Colombians who discovered it at 18 in a local TV commercial, is simply “La toti”.

What is indisputable for Colombians and Americans is that Sofía Vergara was always beautiful and a talented woman who has made her way into the difficult world of modeling, Hispanic television and Hollywood with its legendary smile and its ability to make people laugh without losing the glamor.

This Sunday, July 10, “La toti” turned 50 And like other famous Latinas like Jennifer Lopez or her compatriot Shakira, she is still as beautiful and skinny as she was two or three decades ago.

He celebrated 50 with his family and son Manolo, and in the photos he shared on his Instagram he showed up dressed in a red and white dress and her blond hair falling over her shoulders in front of a coconut cake. Her cakes are her weak point.

What were its beginnings like?

Sofia Vergara afirst appeared on Colombian television in 1989 in a commercial for a soda, then came her lucky foray into television for Hispanic audiences in Florida as a presenter and from there she jumped to Hollywood with small roles in films until she landed in modern family.

In addition to becoming one of the highest paid actresses Over the past decade, Sofía Vergara has won four Screen Actors Guild Awards nominated for four Emmys and Golden Globes for the role of Gloria Delgado, Jay Pritchett’s (Ed O’Neill) loving, foul-mouthed and vivacious Colombian wife.

Sofia’s great success in modern family was turn the flaw in your little spoken English into a seal of distinction and in being a source of love for her family, as a good Latina, in a world of dysfunctional loves.

Sofia’s is not free. She is an inveterate reader and a disciplined womanfocused on her purposes, which despite her Caribbean bliss has been far from the scandals surrounding Hollywood.

“Sofía is still the same Barranquillera as ever,” one of her friends, Katya González Ripoll, described her birthday to the newspaper El Heraldo de Barranquilla, explaining that neither fame nor money changed the woman who left her. country, like many of his countrymen, fleeing the violence of the 90s that brought forward one of his brothers.

He went through a difficult illness

Not everything was easy in Sofia’s life. At the age of 28, he was diagnosed with thyroid cancer.she was treated and operated on and, as she herself confessed a year ago on her social networks, she is a “survivor” of the disease.

This married to American actor Joe Manganiellobut before her marriage she was engaged to businessman Nick Loeb, which took her to court in one of those stellar litigation usually seen in American courts, this time for the use he wanted to give her frozen embryos.

In the end, Sofía defeated Loeb in all the courts where she sued her and made sure to prevent his “ex” from using his genetic material without her consent.

Completed in April 2020 modern familyafter 11 years at the top of American television, but it was not the end of Sofía, who had already successfully entered the world of fashion with a line of clothing and beauty products.

In the last year, some images of her in the role of Colombian drug trafficker Griselda Blanco, in a miniseries about to see the light on Netflix and bearing the seal of the creators of narcos.

While that comes it will be his first starring role in a dramatic roleSofía remains current on American television during the first time slot as one of the juries of America’s Got talentwhere he does not spare the opportunity to show his funny personality.

Source: ANSA / Oscar Escamilla

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