America Ferrera is an American actress. America Ferrera played the lead role in the television series Ugly Betty from 2006 to 2010. America Ferrera also starred in the movies Real Women Have Curves, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, and The Dry Land.

America Ferrera, the youngest of six children, was born to parents who immigrated to the United States from Honduras in the mid-1970s. Her mother worked as a housecleaning staff director for a hotel.

Her mother raised America Ferrera and her siblings, always stressing the importance of higher education. She was raised in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles, where she attended George Ellery Hale Middle School and El Camino Real High School.

From the time she was seven years old, when she landed a small role in a school production of Hamlet and then at age 10 a much bigger role as the Artful Dodger in Oliver!, America Ferrera knew that she wanted to be a performer.