America Ferrera looks fashion forward
After four seasons playing TV's wanna-be fashion writer Ugly Betty, Emmy-winning 25-year-old actress America Ferrera bids goodbye in April to the red glasses and braces. This week, Ferrera is hitting the big screen as a Latina from a big family marrying an African-American in the culture-clash comedy romance Our Family Wedding.

Ferrera also branches out from Betty later this month by voicing a blonde, kick butt Viking teen in the 3-D animated movie How to Train Your Dragon and she continues to produce noteworthy films in which she stars; 2008's Towards Darkness and a Sundance offering about Iraq, The Dry Land. So, the eternal optimist and go-getter in Ugly Betty lives on!
SheKnows was pleased to chat with Ferrera about the sensitive culture clash at the core of Our Family Wedding and learned that she has a lot to say about growing up in multi-cultural LA and how, like her modern character Lucia, she is really v...















