America Ferrera

Is the sixth and youngest child of Honduran immigrants, though her parents divorced when she was a child, and her father moved back to Honduras, where he died in 2010. Caught acting bug at age 7, when she played a small role in a school production of Hamlet .  Met her husband, director Ryan Piers Williams ( The Dry Land ), when he cast her in his student film while they attended the University of Southern California. In 2010, won her fourth Imagen Foundation Award (her third for Ugly Betty );… Show more the award honors positive portrayals of Latinos and Latino culture in entertainment. ~ Rovi

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