50 Fun Facts About Sofia Vergara

What is the natural hair color of Sofia Vergara, who is sometimes asked to dye it for screen roles?

Blonde is her natural shade, darkened for some roles so that she looks more stereotypically Hispanic.

Before modeling took over, Sofia Vergara spent three years at a Colombian university studying which subject?

Dentistry was the plan, and she quit just two semesters short of her degree to chase modeling and television work.

In the 2023 talking-dog comedy Strays, Sofia Vergara provides the voice of which piece of furniture?

A couch gets her voice in the comedy, in which Jamie Foxx and Isla Fisher play stray dogs helping a terrier take revenge on his abusive owner.

Sofia Vergara told Jimmy Kimmel in 2014 that she had earned a perfect score on which test?

Her citizenship exam went without a single mistake, making her a US citizen. Her Modern Family character Gloria became an American citizen too, in season 6.

Sofia Vergara made a full recovery after doctors diagnosed which illness in 2000, when she was 28?

Thyroid cancer meant surgery to remove the gland and a course of radioiodine therapy. She still takes medication to do the work the gland once did.

At 17, Sofia Vergara got her first screen job in a Latin American commercial for which soft drink?

Pepsi gave the Colombian teenager her first screen job, and two decades later she was back in its commercials as a Hollywood star.

Which True Blood and Magic Mike actor did Sofia Vergara marry in Palm Beach, Florida, in 2015?

Joe Manganiello proposed after just six months of dating. The couple announced their separation in 2023, after seven years of marriage.

Which Oscar winner played the strait-laced cop guarding Sofia Vergara's character across Texas in Hot Pursuit?

Reese Witherspoon and Vergara were nominated as a pair at the Teen Choice Awards, once for their chemistry and once for an on-screen kiss.

Which former judge returned to America's Got Talent in 2020, the season Sofia Vergara joined the panel?

Heidi Klum came back as Vergara arrived, the two of them replacing Julianne Hough and Gabrielle Union, who had each lasted a single season.

Sofia Vergara's 2024 Emmy nomination for Griselda ended in a loss to which True Detective star?

Jodie Foster took the Emmy, and Vergara joked that she had been robbed for the fifth time, after four losing nominations for Modern Family.

Which Married... with Children star played Jay Pritchett, husband of Sofia Vergara's Gloria, on Modern Family?

Ed O'Neill played the wealthy patriarch, a man whose two grown children are close to his second wife's own age.

Sofia Vergara was born in which Colombian city, also the hometown written for her Modern Family character?

Barranquilla is where she grew up, the daughter of a cattle rancher and a homemaker. The sitcom's writers gave Gloria the same hometown.

After leaving Colombia in the 1990s, Sofia Vergara settled in which US city, where her family later joined her?

Miami became her home in the 1990s. After her older brother Rafael was killed in Colombia in a kidnapping attempt, she brought her mother, sister and younger brother to live with her.

Sofia Vergara became a familiar face in the late 1990s co-hosting shows for which Spanish-language US network?

Univision made her a host of the travel show Fuera de Serie, which made her famous across Latin America well before Hollywood noticed.

Griselda, Sofia Vergara's 2024 Netflix miniseries, came from the creative team behind which earlier drug-trade drama?

Narcos veterans made it: co-creator Doug Miro ran the show with Ingrid Escajeda, and Andrés Baiz directed all six episodes.

In 2009, Sofia Vergara appeared on Broadway as the prison matron Mama Morton in which long-running musical?

Chicago put her on a Broadway stage in the very year that Modern Family went on to make her a household name.

Sofia Vergara played cosmetics boss Odile in which 2011 family film that mixes live actors with animated characters?

The Smurfs cast her as the boss of Neil Patrick Harris's character and earned her a Kids' Choice Award nomination for Favorite Movie Actress.

Sofia Vergara appeared in Meet the Browns and Madea Goes to Jail, two comedies written and directed by whom?

Tyler Perry cast her in the second film as T.T., a serial killer who ends up sharing a prison cell with his own character, Madea.

In 2011, Sofia Vergara was named the face of which American makeup brand, with ads following in 2012?

CoverGirl was one of a run of deals that year, when she also turned up in commercials for Xfinity and State Farm.

Sofia Vergara's 2024 brand Dios Mio!, created to support female Colombian growers, sells which product?

Coffee grown by Colombian women fills the bags, adding to a business portfolio that already ran from furniture to fragrances.

In Despicable Me 4, Sofia Vergara voices Valentina, the girlfriend of a cockroach-themed villain voiced by whom?

Will Ferrell voices Maxime Le Mal, a French-accented supervillain and old high school rival of Gru who is out for revenge.

Sofia Vergara appears opposite which British action star in Wild Card, a 2015 thriller about a Las Vegas bodyguard?

Jason Statham plays a recovering gambling addict in the film, a remake of a 1986 Burt Reynolds movie taken from a William Goldman novel.

Sofia Vergara starred in The Knights of Prosperity, a 2007 ABC sitcom about misfits plotting to rob which rock star?

Mick Jagger was in on the joke as an executive producer. The show had first been built around robbing Jeff Goldblum, until he signed on to another series.

In 2007, Sofia Vergara starred in and helped produce a Colombian-Ecuadorian remake of which ABC hit?

Desperate Housewives was remade in Spanish for several Latin American markets, and Vergara was an executive producer of this one as well as one of its stars.

Which boy band performed and then joined Sofia Vergara in a sketch on Saturday Night Live in April 2012?

One Direction sang two songs that night and then turned up alongside Vergara, the episode's host, in a comedy sketch.

Sofia Vergara voiced a new teacher adored by both a principal and a ten-year-old pupil in which animated series?

The Simpsons brought her in as Mrs. Berrera because the producers liked the idea of Bart and Principal Skinner falling for the same person.

Which English soccer star shared the screen with Sofia Vergara in a 2011 soft drink commercial?

David Beckham joined her in the ad, one of several campaigns she fronted that year alongside work for a makeup brand and an insurer.

On Modern Family, young Luke mangles an insult about Sofia Vergara's Gloria and calls her a what?

Coal digger is what Luke made of a phrase he had picked up from his mother, and the slip gave the sitcom's fifth episode its title.

On Modern Family, Sofia Vergara's Gloria turns a family recipe into a business selling which product?

Hot sauce from a family recipe becomes Gloria's own business. Later still, she becomes a realtor with Phil Dunphy as her mentor.

On Modern Family, what is the name of the poetry-writing son of Sofia Vergara's character from her first marriage?

Manny is an old soul who writes precocious poetry for his crushes, and his mother backs him whenever his stepfather tells him to be less sensitive.

Which childhood nickname of Sofia Vergara, given by her siblings and cousins, inspired the name of her beauty brand?

Toti is what her five siblings and many cousins called her, and the beauty brand she launched in June 2023 borrows it with a changed final letter.

Sofia Vergara's first clothing line, announced in 2011 and aimed at soccer moms, was designed for which retailer?

Kmart got her first collection, and she later moved on to designing a fashion line of her own for Walmart.

In 2014, Sofia Vergara became a brand ambassador for which American anti-dandruff shampoo?

Head & Shoulders signed her a year after she agreed a deal with the furniture chain Rooms To Go, for which she also launched a furniture line.

In 2012, which magazine's list named Sofia Vergara the highest-earning woman in US television, at $19 million?

Forbes kept counting after that list, and by 2015 it estimated her annual income at $28.5 million.

Sofia Vergara said she wanted her Griselda to resemble which television mob boss, a villain audiences did not hate?

Tony Soprano was her model, and to vanish into the part she used prosthetics that changed the look of her nose, teeth and eyebrows.

Which Law & Order actor played Javier, the unreliable ex-husband of Sofia Vergara's Gloria, on Modern Family?

Benjamin Bratt's Javier is a gambler who keeps breaking his promises to his son, yet the boy goes on idolizing him.

Which Modern Family character's actor was a stand-in judge in Sofia Vergara's first America's Got Talent season?

Cameron Tucker's actor, Eric Stonestreet, sat in for an audition session after one of the regular judges fell ill.

Which Lebanese dance troupe won America's Got Talent in 2022 after Sofia Vergara gave them her golden buzzer?

Mayyas, whose name means the proud walk of a lioness in Arabic, were the first of her golden buzzer picks to go on and win the whole show.

In Four Brothers, Sofia Vergara plays Sofi, the girlfriend of Angel Mercer, a brother played by which singer-actor?

Tyrese Gibson's Angel is a retired Marine, one of four adopted brothers out to avenge the murder of their adoptive mother.

In the 2014 food-truck comedy Chef, Sofia Vergara plays Inez, the wealthy ex-wife of a cook played by which director?

Jon Favreau also wrote and directed the film, a back-to-basics project after several big-budget pictures. It is Inez who steers his character toward the truck.

Scheduling clashes with Modern Family forced Sofia Vergara out of The Paperboy; which Oscar winner took over her role?

Nicole Kidman stepped in after a delayed shoot ran into the sitcom's third season, and the part brought her Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations.

Sofia Vergara filmed a scene as an airplane hijacker that was cut from which Arnold Schwarzenegger action film?

Collateral Damage was due out in October 2001, was postponed after the September 11 attacks, and reached cinemas the following February without her hijacking scene.

Sofia Vergara made her film debut in Big Trouble, a 2002 comedy based on a novel by which humor columnist?

Dave Barry's comic novel gave her the part of Nina, a young housemaid who falls for a homeless drifter she first mistakes for Jesus.

Which actor wrote, directed and starred in Fading Gigolo, a 2013 comedy co-starring Sofia Vergara and Sharon Stone?

John Turturro's cash-strapped character is talked into the gigolo trade by a friend whose bookstore has failed, and Vergara's Selima is among the clients.

In Koati, an animated film she also executive produced, Sofia Vergara voices the villain Zaina, which kind of animal?

A coral snake named Zaina threatens a rainforest defended by a coati, a monarch butterfly and a glass frog. Vergara's son, Manolo, voices a stork.

Sofia Vergara makes a cameo in the photoshoot scene of Yo Visto Así, a 2020 music video by which rapper?

Bad Bunny packed the video with famous faces, among them Ricky Martin, Karol G and Ruby Rose, before closing it with shots of himself in an empty stadium.

On Modern Family, the mother of Sofia Vergara's Gloria wants baby Joe to carry which family name?

Fulgencio was the name of Gloria's father. Jay hates it, so the boy is christened Fulgencio Joseph Pritchett and goes by Joe.

On Modern Family, which former job of Sofia Vergara's Gloria is confirmed when her old workplace appears in season 5?

Hairdresser was her trade, and the salon where she used to work turns up in the episode A Hard Jay's Night, after seasons of doubts about her shady past.

Sofia Vergara's first leading role in a major film was a scheming wife in which 2012 Farrelly brothers comedy?

The Three Stooges cast her as Lydia, who tries to trick the trio into killing her husband so that she can inherit his fortune.

Sofia Vergara joined Michelle Pfeiffer, Halle Berry and Zac Efron in which 2011 Garry Marshall holiday ensemble?

New Year's Eve is the middle film of an unofficial trilogy of Marshall romantic comedies, each set on a single holiday.