America Ferrera
Actor | Producer | Director
America Georgina Ferrera (born April 18, 1984) is a Honduran-American actress, best known for playing the lead role in the television comedy series "Ugly Betty". Her portrayal garnered critical acclaim, and she won the Golden Globe Award for "Best Actress in a Comedy Series", the Screen Actors Guild Award for "Best Female Actor in a Comedy Series", and the Emmy Award for "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series". She has also starred in Real Women Have Curves, The Dry Land, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, its sequel Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, and had a small role in the skateboard biopic Lords of Dogtown (2005). In addition, she was the voice of Astrid the Viking in the Dreamworks animated picture How to Train Your Dragon.
Filmography - Acting
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How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming (2019)
As: Astrid Hofferson (voice)
It's been ten years since the dragons moved to the Hidden World, and even though Toothless doesn't live in New Berk anymore, Hiccup continues the holiday traditions he once shared with his best friend. But the Vikings of New Berk were beginning to forget about their friendship with dragons. Hiccup, Astrid, and Gobber know just what to do to keep the dragons in the villagers' hearts. And across the sea, the ...
Runtime: 22 min.
Directed by: Tim Johnson
Stars: Christopher Mintz-Plasse | America Ferrera | Jay Baruchel | Gerard Butler | Craig Ferguson
How to Train Your Dragon 3 (2019)
As: Astrid Hofferson (voice)
As Hiccup fulfills his dream of creating a peaceful dragon utopia, Toothless’ discovery of an untamed, elusive mate draws the Night Fury away. When danger mounts at home and Hiccup’s reign as village chief is tested, both dragon and rider must make impossible decisions to save their kind.
Directed by: Dean DeBlois
Stars: Jonah Hill | America Ferrera | Jay Baruchel | Gerard Butler | Craig Ferguson
The Words That Built America (2017)
As: Herself
In this 4th of July special, politicians, celebrities and young people lend their voices to a reading of the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Runtime: 49 min.
Directed by: Alexandra Pelosi
Stars: Morgan Freeman | Samuel L. Jackson | Kevin Bacon | Robert Redford | Meryl Streep
100 Years (2017)
As: Narrator (voice)
An animated history of American health care provider, Planned Parenthood.
Runtime: 7 min.
Directed by: Lena Dunham | Kirsten Lepore
Stars: America Ferrera | Lena Dunham | Jennifer Lawrence | Meryl Streep | Mindy Kaling
Special Correspondents (2016)
As: Brigida
A radio journalist and his technician get in over their heads when they hatch a scheme to fake their own kidnapping during a rebel uprising in South America and hide out in New York instead.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Ricky Gervais
Stars: Vera Farmiga | Benjamin Bratt | Eric Bana | Kelly Macdonald | Ricky Gervais
The 4%: Film's Gender Problem (2016)
As: Herself
Explores the hot-button issues around the striking gender gap in Hollywood. Both women and men in the entertainment industry share first-person insights, questions, and anecdotes about the place of women in Hollywood.
Runtime: 28 min.
Directed by: Caroline Suh
Stars: Lake Bell | Toni Collette | Catherine Hardwicke | Amy Heckerling | Jill Soloway
Dragons: Dawn Of The Dragon Racers (2014)
As: Astrid (voice)
A hunt for a lost sheep turns into a competition between Hiccup and friends as they compete to become the first Dragon Racing champion of Berk. This is the history about how did Dragon Racing start and how it became the most popular sport on Berk. An extra that accompanies the film "How to Train Your Dragon 2".
Runtime: 26 min.
Directed by: John Sanford | Elaine Bogan
Stars: Christopher Mintz-Plasse | America Ferrera | Jay Baruchel | Tim Conway | Chris Edgerly
How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)
As: Astrid Hofferson (voice)
The thrilling second chapter of the epic How To Train Your Dragon trilogy brings back the fantastical world of Hiccup and Toothless five years later. While Astrid, Snotlout and the rest of the gang are challenging each other to dragon races (the island's new favorite contact sport), the now inseparable pair journey through the skies, charting unmapped territories and exploring new worlds. When one of their ...
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Dean DeBlois
Stars: Cate Blanchett | America Ferrera | Jay Baruchel | Gerard Butler | Craig Ferguson
X/Y (2014)
As Mark, Jen, Sylvia, and Jake navigate through their emotionally-arrested states, X/Y reveals the honest and wanton desire we all have to connect with someone and what is at stake when that connection fades.
Runtime: 82 min.
Directed by: Ryan Piers Williams
Stars: Amber Tamblyn | America Ferrera | Melonie Diaz | Ryan Piers Williams | Jon Paul Phillips
Cesar Chavez (2014)
As: Helen Chavez
A biography of the civil-rights activist and labor organizer Cesar Chavez. Chronicling the birth of a modern American labour movement, Cesar Chavez tells the story of the famed civil rights leader and labour organiser torn between his duties as a husband and father and his commitment to securing a living wage for farm workers. Passionate but soft-spoken, Chavez embraced non-violence as ...
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Diego Luna
Stars: Gabriel Mann | America Ferrera | Rosario Dawson | Jacob Vargas | Michael Peña
Six by Sondheim (2013)
As: Mary / Herself
This intimate documentary explores the life and career of the stage legend Stephen Sondheim through six of his best-known songs.
Runtime: 86 min.
Directed by: Todd Haynes | Autumn de Wilde | James Lapine
Stars: America Ferrera | Darren Criss | Audra McDonald | Jeremy Jordan | Stephen Sondheim
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (2012)
As: Herself
PBS series documentary based on a book of the same name that argues the oppression of women worldwide is the "paramount moral challenge" of our time.
Runtime: 224 min.
Directed by: Maro Chermayeff
Stars: Eva Mendes | Meg Ryan | Gabrielle Union | Nicholas Kristof | Dipti Mehta
End of Watch (2012)
As: Officer Orozco
Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel during a routine traffic stop.
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: David Ayer
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal | Anna Kendrick | Michael Peña | David Harbour | Natalie Martinez
It's a Disaster (2012)
As: Hedy Galili
Four couples meet for Sunday brunch only to discover they are stuck in a house together as the world may be about to end.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Todd Berger
Stars: David Cross | America Ferrera | Rachel Boston | Julia Stiles | Jeff Grace
Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury (2011)
As: Astrid Hofferson (voice)
The Viking town of Berk, now enjoying its new alliance with the dragons, is preparing for its annual winter holiday of Snoggletog. However, that spirit is threatened when all the dragons, except Toothless who needs Hiccup to help him, suddenly fly away for some reason. While Astrid ineffectually tries to salvage the occasion, Hiccup decides to build Toothless a new prosthetic to allow him ...
Runtime: 22 min.
Directed by: Tom Owens
Stars: Jonah Hill | America Ferrera | Jay Baruchel | Gerard Butler | Craig Ferguson
Book of Dragons (2011)
As: Astrid (voice)
So you want to be a dragon trainer do you? Prepare yourself for adventure, excitement and training as Hiccup, Astrid, Toothless and Gobber tell the legend behind the Book of Dragons and reveal insider training secrets about new, never-before-seen dragons.
Runtime: 17 min.
Directed by: Steve Hickner
Stars: Christopher Mintz-Plasse | America Ferrera | Jay Baruchel | Jim Cummings | Craig Ferguson
The Latino List (2011)
As: Herself
Documentary film interviews leading Latinos on race, identity, and achievement.
Runtime: 60 min.
Directed by: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Stars: America Ferrera | Gloria Estefan | Emilio Estefan Jr. | Sandra Cisneros | Jose Hernandez
Me Facing Life: Cyntoia's Story (2011)
As: Herself - Narrator
In 2004, Cyntoia Brown was arrested for the murder of a 43-year-old man. Cyntoia was a prostitute and he was her client.
Runtime: 69 min.
Stars: America Ferrera | Cyntoia D. Brown | Ellenette Brown | Jeff Burks | Astrid Heger
Legend of the BoneKnapper Dragon (2010)
As: Astrid Hofferson (voice)
The film follows Hiccup and his young fellows accompanying their mentor, Gobber, on a quest to kill the legendary Boneknapper Dragon. An extra that accompanies the film "How to Train Your Dragon".
Runtime: 17 min.
Directed by: John Puglisi
Stars: Jonah Hill | America Ferrera | Jay Baruchel | Gerard Butler | Craig Ferguson
The Dry Land (2010)
As: Sarah
A U.S. soldier returning home from war struggles to reconcile his experiences abroad with the life and family he left in Texas.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Ryan Piers Williams
Stars: Jason Ritter | America Ferrera | Melissa Leo | Wilmer Valderrama | Ethan Suplee
Our Family Wedding (2010)
As: Lucia Ramirez
The weeks leading up to a young couple's wedding is comic and stressful, especially as their respective fathers try to lay to rest their feud.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Rick Famuyiwa
Stars: Forest Whitaker | America Ferrera | Carlos Mencia | Regina King | Lance Gross
How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
As: Astrid Hofferson (voice)
As the son of a Viking leader on the cusp of manhood, shy Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III faces a rite of passage: he must kill a dragon to prove his warrior mettle. But after downing a feared dragon, he realizes that he no longer wants to destroy it, and instead befriends the beast – which he names Toothless – much to the chagrin of his warrior father
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Chris Sanders | Dean DeBlois
Stars: America Ferrera | Jay Baruchel | Gerard Butler | David Tennant | Craig Ferguson
Tinker Bell (2008)
As: Fawn (voice)
Journey into the secret world of Pixie Hollow and hear Tinker Bell speak for the very first time as the astonishing story of Disney's most famous fairy is finally revealed in the all-new motion picture "Tinker Bell."
Runtime: 78 min.
Directed by: Bradley Raymond
Stars: Lucy Liu | America Ferrera | Mae Whitman | Kristin Chenoweth | Raven-Symoné
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008)
As: Carmen Lowell
Four young women continue the journey toward adulthood that began with "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants." Now three years later, these lifelong friends embark on separate paths for their first year of college and the summer beyond, but remain in touch by sharing their experiences with each other.
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: Sanaa Hamri
Stars: Amber Tamblyn | Rachel Nichols | America Ferrera | Alexis Bledel | Blake Lively
Under the Same Moon (2008)
As: Martha
Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Patricia Riggen
Stars: Eugenio Derbez | America Ferrera | Kate del Castillo | Angelina Peláez | Adrián Alonso Barona
La Lupe: Queen of Latin Soul (2007)
As: Herself
A born rebel and innovator, Lupe Yoli aka La Lupe or La Yiyiyi was renowned for her emotional performances. Her renditions of classics such as "My Way," "Fever" and "Going Out of My Head" were known worldwide. But beyond her musicianship, celebrity and scandal, Lupe Yoli was also a single mother of two, a survivor of domestic abuse, a Santera who later became a Christian Evangelist speaker.
Runtime: 60 min.
Directed by: Ela Troyano
Stars: America Ferrera | La Lupe
Towards Darkness (2007)
As: Luiza
Deals with 90 minutes in a kidnapped hostage's life, and the frustration his family, a special ops team, and a man in charge of delivering the ransom money all feel as they rush to save him.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Antonio Negret
Stars: America Ferrera | William Atherton | Tony Plana | Roberto Urbina | David Sutcliffe
Muertas (2007)
As: Rebecca
A young American journalist attempts to piece together the fractured memories of a love lost amidst the ongoing Juarez, Mexico murders.
Runtime: 8 min.
Directed by: Ryan Piers Williams
Stars: America Ferrera | Ryan Piers Williams | Masiela Lusha | Benjamín Ávila | Laura Castle
Steel City (2006)
As: Amy Barnes
After a tragic accident caused by the truck of the middle-aged Carl Lee where a woman dies with a crushed stern, he is arrested and sent to the county jail. His son PJ, who works washing dishes and cleaning tables in a restaurant, feels lost, without financial support to keep his father's house, and is fired from his job and evicted from his house.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Brian Jun
Stars: Raymond J. Barry | James DeBello | Clayne Crawford | Jamie Anne Allman | Kristian Best
Lords of Dogtown (2005)
As: Thunder Monkey
"Lords of Dogtown" tells the radical true story behind three teenage surfers from Venice Beach, California, who took skateboarding to the extreme and changed the world of sports forever. Stacy Peralta (John Robinson, Elephant), Tony Alva (Victor Rasuk, Raising Victor Vargas) and Jay Adams (Emile Hirsch, The Girl Next Door) are the Z-Boys, a bunch of nobodies until they create a new style of skateboarding ...
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Catherine Hardwicke
Stars: Rebecca De Mornay | Michael Angarano | Victor Rasuk | Emile Hirsch | John Robinson
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005)
As: Carmen Lowell
Four best friends (Tibby, Lena, Carmen & Bridget) who buy a mysterious pair of pants that fits each of them, despite their differing sizes, and makes whoever wears them feel fabulous. When faced with the prospect of spending their first summer apart, the pals decide they'll swap the pants so that each girl in turn can enjoy the magic.
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: Ken Kwapis
Stars: Amber Tamblyn | America Ferrera | Alexis Bledel | Blake Lively | Jenna Boyd
How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer (2005)
As: Blanca
Three generations of women in a Mexican American family experience sexual awakenings over the course of a summer.
Runtime: 128 min.
Directed by: Georgina Riedel
Stars: America Ferrera | Elizabeth Peña | Lucy Gallardo
Plainsong (2004)
As: Victoria Roubideaux
Aidan Quinn (Legends of the Fall,) and Rachel Griffiths (Six Feet Under) star in Plainsong, a Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation based on the novel by Kent Haruf. Tom Guthrie (Quinn), a high school history teacher, is faced with raising two young sons after his wife leaves him. Maggie Jones (Griffiths), a fellow teacher, tries to provide comfort and support. When a 17-year old student at their school ...
Directed by: Richard Pearce
Stars: Geoffrey Lewis | America Ferrera | Aidan Quinn | Rachel Griffiths | Megan Follows
Gotta Kick It Up (2002)
As: Yolanda
This was going to be the first year that Marshal Middle School was not going to have a dance team. All that changes when the new Biology teacher, Ms. Bartlett, agrees to be the coach. Now the girls need to prove that they are ready to compete and are able to win; not only to themselves, but to their parents and coach. Using the chant "si, se puede" or "yes, I can" the Dance team builds their confidence ...
Runtime: 78 min.
Directed by: Ramón Menéndez
Stars: America Ferrera | Camille Guaty | Joanna Flores | Suilma Rodriguez | Sabrina Wiener
Real Women have Curves (2002)
As: Ana Garcia
Freshly graduated from high school, Ana receives a full scholarship to Columbia University. Her very traditional, old-world parents feel that now is the time for Ana to help provide for the family, not the time for college.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Patricia Cardoso
Stars: George Lopez | America Ferrera | Lupe Ontiveros | Ingrid Oliu | Brian Sites