In 1998, her older brother Rafael was murdered in Colombia during an attempt to kidnap him. Vergara initially studied dentistry for three years at National University of Colombia, but she left two semesters away from completing her degree to pursue opportunities in modeling and show business. ![]() ![]() She was nicknamed "Toti" by her five siblings and many cousins. Her mother, Margarita Vergara de Vergara, was a homemaker, and her father, Julio Enrique Vergara Robayo, was a cattle rancher for the meat industry. Vergara was born to a Roman Catholic family in Barranquilla. Since 2020, Vergara has been a judge on America's Got Talent. She also had voice-over roles in the animated films Happy Feet Two (2011), Escape from Planet Earth (2013), and The Emoji Movie (2017). Vergara has also had roles in the films The Smurfs (2011), New Year's Eve (2011), The Three Stooges (2012), Machete Kills (2013), Fading Gigolo (2013), Chef (2014), and Hot Pursuit (2015). In 2009, she began playing Gloria Delgado-Pritchett in the ABC comedy series Modern Family, for which she was nominated for four Golden Globe Awards, four Primetime Emmy Awards, and eleven Screen Actors Guild Awards. She subsequently appeared in Four Brothers (2005) and Tyler Perry's comedies Meet the Browns (2008) and Madea Goes to Jail (2009), receiving an ALMA Award nomination for the latter. Her first notable acting job in English was in the film Chasing Papi (2003). ![]() Vergara rose to prominence while co-hosting two television shows for Spanish-language television network Univision in the late 1990s. SofĂa Margarita Vergara Vergara ( Spanish: born July 10, 1972) is a Colombian and American actress and model.
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