Sofia Vergara is a Colombian American actress best known for starring in Modern Family and Griselda.
Biography
She was born on July 10, 1972, in Barranquilla, Atlántico, Colombia, as Sofía Margarita Vergara Vergara.
She has five siblings.
She emigrated to the United States in 1998, , settling in Miami.
At age 17, Vergara made her first appearance in a Pepsi commercial.
Sofia Vergara during 2005/2006 ABC UpFront – Arrivals at Lincoln Center in New York City – @Getty
In 2002, Sofia had her first film role in Big Trouble.
In 2014, Vergara became a US citizen.
From 2009 to 2022, she starred as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett in 220 episodes of the TV show — Modern Family.
Griselda
In 2004, Vergara performed in the Netflix series Griselda. She portrays Griselda Blanco.
Sofia Vergara attends the Miami premiere of “Griselda” at The Fillmore Miami Beach on January 23, 2024 – @Getty
Both Netflix and Vergara were sued by Blanco’s son, Michael Corleone Blanco.
Husband
In 1990, Sofia married her high school sweetheart, Joe Gonzalez, in Columbia. She was 18 at the time.
In 1991, Vergara and Gonzalez welcomed their son, Manolo. Her son was named after the character of the same name from Scarface.
She and Gonzalez divorced in 1993. Despite their divorce, she and Joe remain “close friends.”
In 2012, Vergara engaged with American businessman and actor Nick Loeb.
He is 10 years younger than Vergara. However, they called off their wedding in 2014.
Second Marriage
In the summer of 2014, she began dating Joe Manganiello.
Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello are seen at the Stephen Colbert show on July 17, 2019 in New York City – @Getty
They first met at the 2014 White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. At the time, Vergara was actually engaged to Loeb.
Vergara and Joe got engaged in December 2014. Joe proposed to Sofia while vacationing at the St. Regis Hotel in Hawaii.
In November 2015, Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello married at the Breakers Resort in Palm Beach, FL. About 350 guests were in attendance.
Sofia and Manganiello made their award show debut at the 2016 SAG Awards.
In July 2023, Joe filed for divorce from Sofia, citing “irreconcilable differences.” It was reported the reason for the divorce between her and Joe was that he wanted kids.
“He wanted to have kids, and I didn’t want to be an old mom,” Sofia said in an interview with People.
“There’s things in life that might sound like good ideas, but they’re not,” Vergara said in another interview. She added: “I was a mother already.”
Joe Manganiello and Sofia Vergara attend TNT’s 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards – @Getty
Their divorce was finalized in April 2024. The pair had a prenuptial agreement.
In the autumn of 2023, it was reported that Vergara was dating Justin Saliman while Joe was dating Caitlin O’Connor.
In July 2014, Manganiello told Men’s Journal that Vergara’s take about their reasons for divorce isn’t true. He said:
“To be painted as if I had some sort of midlife crisis, and after nine years, turned to somebody and gave them an ultimatum of, ‘Do this potentially unhealthy thing to your body, or else I’m gone’? That’s never who I was.”
Height
Sofia Vergara is 1.7 m tall.
Sofia Vergara – Net Worth
Sofia Vergara attends the “America’s Got Talent” Season 17 Kick-Off Red Carpet at Pasadena Civic Auditorium – @Getty
So, how much is Sofia Vergara worth?
Vergara earned most of her wealth from performing in 48 movies and TV series, including Hot Pursuit, Modern Family, Chef, Griselda, This Is Me… Now, and more.
Modern Family is by far Vergara’s biggest project in terms of financial income. In the last seasons, Sofia was earning at least $500K per episode. This means that for Season 11, Vergara made $9 million.
In 1994, she co-founded the production company Latin World Entertainment.
In 2020, Vergara became a judge on America’s Got Talent. For this, she was paid $10 million per season. According to Yahoo, “The producers can’t justify that salary anymore!”
In 2018, she and Renata M. Black founded the lingerie brand EBY. In 2021, EBY secured a $6 million investment from investment firm Colt Ventures.
In 2023, Sofia launched her suncare brand, Toty, in collaboration with Cantabria Labs. “In Colombia, everybody has a nickname. Toty was mine since I was a little girl,” Vergara revealed the origins of her brand name.
She owns a line of jeans, Sofia Jeans, which is sold at Walmart.
In 2024, she launched Dios Mios Coffee.
Sofía Vergara attends the red carpet for “America’s Got Talent” Season 18 Live Show at Hotel Dena – @Getty
Vergara also made money from brand deals, including:
- AT&T – $2.75M
- Diet Pepsi – $3.5M
- State Farm – $3.5M
- Head & Shoulders – $4M
- Comcast Xfinity – $2.5M
- CoverGirl – $3.5M
“I don’t believe that money is 100 percent what is going to give you happiness, but I think it takes away a lot of the pressure and stress where you can focus on other things,” Vergara told Forbes in 2018.
Therefore, Sofia Vergara has an estimated net worth of $200 million.
Real estate
In May 2024, she sold her Tuscan-style villa in Beverly Hills Estate for $13.7M. The house has over 1,000 sqm. Vergara bought the property in 2014 for $10.6M. She initially listed in 2022 for $18M.
She owns a Caribbean home known as Casa Chipi Chipi. It is only accessible via seaplane.
In 2020, Sofia and her ex-husband bought a mansion in Beverly Park for $25M. It was previously owned by former professional baseball player Barry Bonds.
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