By Michelle Dumas
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
America Georgina Ferrera (/fəˈrɛərə/; born April 18, 1984) is an American actress, director and television producer. She has received numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to a nomination for an Academy Award. In 2007, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world and in 2023, she was named in BBC‘s 100 Women list.
Ferrera developed an interest in acting at a young age, performing in several stage productions at her school. She made her feature film debut in 2002 with the comedy-drama Real Women Have Curves, earning praise for her performance. She achieved modest success early in her career with roles in films such as the comedy-dramas Gotta Kick It Up! (2002) and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005). She garnered further critical acclaim and recognition for her starring role as Betty Suarez in the ABC comedy-drama series Ugly Betty (2006–2010). For her performance, she won a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, the first for a Latina woman in the category.
Ferrera’s other film roles include the drama The Dry Land (2010), the romantic comedy Our Family Wedding (2010), the crime drama End of Watch (2012), and the fantasy comedy Barbie (2023), which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has also performed a voice role in the How to Train Your Dragon franchise since 2010, and has co-produced and starred in the NBC workplace comedy series Superstore (2015–2021).
TODAY’S ALMANAC
At 5:12 A.M. on Wednesday, April 18, 1906, an earthquake woke up residents of San Francisco and tossed them from their beds. Little did they know that it was going to be one of the deadliest natural disasters in the history of the United States. Read our article, Remembering the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.””
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Died
- Edouard Albert Roche (astronomer) –
- Albert Einstein (physicist) –
- Thor Heyerdahl (Norwegian adventurer and author) –
- Dick Clark (entertainer) –
Born
- James Woods (actor) –
- Eric Roberts (actor) –
- Conan O’Brien (talk show host) –
- Melissa Joan Hart (actress) –
- Miguel Cabrera (baseball player) –
- America Ferrera (actress) –
Events
- San Francisco earthquake–
- Beatification ceremony for Joan of Arc held in Rome, Italy–
- Old Yankee stadium opened in N.Y.C.–
- First U.S. public laundromat opened, Fort Worth, Texas–
- League of Nations dissolved–
- Actress Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier of Monaco in a civil ceremony–
- Lighted fishing pole patented–
- The longest professional baseball game started on this night. The 33-inning game spanned 3 days, beginning on April 18, extending into April 19, and ending on June 23. The Pawtucket (Rhode Island) Red Sox beat the Rochester (New York) Red Wings 3-2. Cal Ripken was playing 3rd base for the Red Wings–
- Beauty and the Beast was the first Disney animated film to become a Broadway musical. It opened on this day at New York’s Palace Theater–
- Cardinals gathered in Rome to select Pope John Paul II’s successor–
- Catherine Ndereba, of Kenya, won the 109th Boston Marathon for an unprecedented fourth time in the women’s division–
- Aaron Caissie set a world record by balancing 17 spoons on his face–
Weather
- The temperature soared to 90 degrees F in New York City–
- Logan Airport in Boston reported a temperature of 2 degrees F–
- The Red River in the Fargo-Moorhead region of North Dakota rose more than 20 feet above flood stage.–
- The temperature reached 104 degrees Fahrenheit in Del Rio, Texas–
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