America Ferrera Biography
America Ferrera is an actress from the United States who has won several awards, including a Primetime Emmy, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, among others. In 2007, Time named her one of the world’s 100 most influential people.
How old is America Ferrera? – Age
She is 39 years old as of 18 April 2023. She was born in 1984 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Her real name is America Georgina Ferrera.
America Ferrera Family – Education
Her parents, América Griselda Ayes and Carlos Gregorio Ferrera, came to the United States in the mid-1970s from Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Ferrera has indicated that she is of Lenca descent.Her mother worked as the director of housekeeping for one of the Hilton Hotels, and she was raised to value education.Ferrera’s parents split when she was seven years old, and her father returned to Honduras.When her father died there in 2010, she was alienated from him.
Ferrera grew up in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Woodland Hills, where she attended Calabash Street Elementary School, George Ellery Hale Middle School, and El Camino Real High School. She took acting classes at El Camino High School. She received a presidential scholarship at the University of Southern California (USC), where she double-majored in theatre and international relations. She stopped out to pursue her acting career, although she graduated with honors in May 2013.
America Ferrera Husband – Children
Ferrera initially met Ryan Piers Williams, an actor, director, and writer, when he put her in a student film at USC. The couple married on June 27, 2011, after becoming engaged in June 2010. Ferrera and Williams announced on January 1, 2018, that they were expecting their first child.
America Ferrera Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $16 Million.
America Ferrera Height
She stands at a height of 5 feet 1 inches (1.55 m).
America Ferrera WeCrashed
She appeared as Elishia Kennedy in the American drama streaming television miniseries WeCrashed. Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway star as Adam and Rebekah Neumann, the real-life married couple at the center of WeWork, a coworking space firm that claimed a valuation of $47 billion (in an internally prepared prospectus) in 2019, before collapsing due to financial discoveries. The show is based on Wondery’s podcast WeCrashed: The Rise and Fall of WeWork.
America Ferrera Superstore
She appeared as as Amelia ‘Amy’ Sosa in the American television sitcom Superstore. Sosa is a Honduran-American Cloud 9 employee who began her career as an associate, then advanced to floor supervisor and assistant manager before being elevated to store manager. Amy usually wears a new name tag because she dislikes having strangers use her real name. Amy quits the business in the second episode of season 6 to take a corporate role at Cloud 9, but returns for the final three episodes.
After initially announcing the series’ sixth season renewal, NBC stated on February 28, 2020, that series star America Ferrera would be leaving at the end of the fifth season, citing a desire to focus on new projects and spend more time with her family. After the fifth season’s production was cut short by one episode owing to the COVID-19 epidemic, Ferrera stated that her exit from the show might be extended into season 6 to give her character’s arc its completion. Ferrera appeared in the first two episodes of the sixth season as well as the final three.
America Ferrera DreamWorks Dragons
She voiced Astrid Hofferson, Hiccup’s close friend and partner in the American computer-animated television series DreamWorks Dragons. Astrid is the dragon training academy’s unofficial second-in-command. She has a strong personality, is one of the most courageous Dragon Riders, and is extremely competitive. Stormfly, her dragon, has a close affinity with her. Hiccup gives Astrid a betrothal necklace during Season 5 of Race to the Edge, officially tying the knot.
DreamWorks Dragons follows Hiccup as he attempts to maintain balance in the new cohabitation of Dragons and Norse Vikings between How to Train Your Dragon and How to Train Your Dragon 2. Along with keeping up with Berk’s newest installment—A Dragon Training Academy—Hiccup, Toothless, and the rest of the Viking Teens are put to the test when they are confronted with new worlds harsher than Berk, new dragons that cannot all be trained, and new enemies looking for any reason to destroy the harmony between Vikings and Dragons entirely.
America Ferrera Movies
♦ 2025 – Elio
♦ 2023 – Barbie
♦ 2023 – Dumb Money
♦ 2019 – How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
♦ 2019 – How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming
♦ 2016 – Special Correspondents
♦ 2014 – César Chávez
♦ 2014 – X/Y
♦ 2014 – How to Train Your Dragon 2
♦ 2014 – Dawn of the Dragon Racers
♦ 2012 – It’s a Disaster
♦ 2012 – End of Watch
♦ 2012 – Half the Sky
♦ 2011 – Book of Dragons
America Ferrera TV Shows
♦ 2022 – WeCrashed
♦ 2020 – Gentefied
♦ 2017 – Curb Your Enthusiasm
♦ 2016 – Lip Sync Battl
♦ 2015–21 – Superstore
♦ 2015 – Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
♦ 2015 – Inside Amy Schumer
♦ 2014 – Years of Living Dangerously
♦ 2012–18 – DreamWorks Dragons
♦ 2011–13 – The Good Wife Natalie Flores
♦ 2011 – Handy Manny
♦ 2006–10 – Ugly Betty
♦ 2004 – Plainsong
♦ 2004 – CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
♦ 2002–08, – 2010–11 – Independent Lens
♦ 2002 – Touched by an Angel
♦ 2002 – Gotta Kick It Up!