As Hollywood’s highest paid actress for five years running, Modern Family star Sofia Vergara knows there’s something powerful about being a beautiful, funny, Colombian-born actress on prime time TV.
Her iconic character, Gloria, is the much younger wife of Jay, a man in his 60s, and is known for her passionate and outspoken attitude. In the show, her Latina background is very much emphasised, with frequent mispronunciations and misunderstandings of the English language serving as one of her character’s major ‘shticks.’
