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Spotlight

A beauty with charm and impeccable comic timing, Sofia Vergara is just as much an international success story as she is an international sex bomb. Discovered in a Gstring on a beach in her home country of Colombia, Vergara went on to wow Latin America and parts of the U.S. as a major presence on the Univision network. The forward-thinking creators of the hit ABC sitcom Modern Family had the sense to write a part especially for the 39-year-old actress—that of the demanding, hilarious Latina princess Gloria Delgado-Pritchett, for which Vergara has earned a 2011 N.A.A.C.P. Image Award and a Screen Actors Guild award, not to mention Emmy and Golden Globe nominations. She lives in Los Angeles with her 18-year-old son, Manolo (named fora key character in Scarface), who is a recent graduate of the Gunnery school in Connecticut.

Next up, Vergara is set to appear in Gary Marshall's rom-com New Year's Eve and the Farrelly brothers' reboot of The Three Stooges. In her spare time, when she is not tweeting (@SofiaVergara), she is raking it in as an entrepreneur of sorts, having struck deals with Diet Pepsi, CoverGirl, and Kmart.

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JIM WINDOLF