Sofia Vergara is one of six creative leaders in comedy honored for Variety‘s 2021 Power of Women. For more, click here.In 1994, when Sofia Vergara was 22, she landed a major hosting gig with Univision.
The show catapulted her to prominence in Miami, but she couldn’t find an agent.“I was very young when I signed my first contract, and I did it myself,” Vergara says. “I needed a manager, and that didn’t exist for a Latina personality.
It existed for Latina musicians, but not on TV.”Clearly things have changed. Riding the wave of her success with “Modern Family,” where she played the affable Gloria Pritchett from 2009 to 2020, Vergara has topped the Forbes list for seven consecutive years as the highest-paid female actor in the world, raking.
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