WANT to know more about the fast-rising, award-winning star who portrays the title character of Ugly Betty? 

Full name: America Georgine FerreraDate and place of birth: April 18, 1984, Los Angeles, California Height: 5’1” (1.55m) Weight: “Weight! It’s a very emotional issue.”Family: Youngest of six children of a Honduran couple. She was brought up by her mother (also named America). Education: Ferrara is one semester shy of a degree in International Relations from University of Southern California.Filmography: 2002: Real Women Have Curves (for which she won the Jury award for best actress at the Sundance Film Festival); 2005: The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (for which she won the Movieline Breakthrough Award), and Lords of Dogtown (both Dogtown and Sisterhood were released on the same day in America).