Sofía Margarita Vergara Vergara is a Colombian-American actress and television personality, renowned for her role as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett in the ABC sitcom Modern Family and as drug lord Griselda Blanco in the miniseries Griselda. Vergara gained prominence in the late 1990s co-hosting two television shows for the Spanish-language network Univision. Her first significant English-language acting role was in the film Chasing Papi (2003). She subsequently appeared in Four Brothers (2005) and Tyler Perry’s comedies Meet the Browns (2008) and Madea Goes to Jail (2009), earning an ALMA Award nomination for the latter. Her other film credits include New Year’s Eve (2011), The Three Stooges (2012), Machete Kills (2013), Fading Gigolo (2013), Chef (2014), and Hot Pursuit (2015). Vergara has also provided voice-over work for the animated films Happy Feet Two (2011), Escape from Planet Earth (2013), and The Emoji Movie (2017).