Sofía Vergara
Vergara in 2011, s_bukley / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Sofía Margarita Vergara Vergara
Place of Birth: Barranquilla, Atlántico, Colombia
Date of Birth: July 10, 1972
Ethnicity: Colombian – Basque, Spanish [Andalusian, Asturian, Canary Islander, Cantabrian, Castilian, Extremaduran, Leonese, Valencian], Galician, possibly Catalan, remote Indigenous [Muisca], as well as at least 1/16th Venezuelan, small amounts of French, Italian [including Venetian], Quechua [Indigenous Peruvian and Indigenous Ecuadorian], and Portuguese [including Azorean]
Sofía Vergara is a Colombian-born actress, comedian, model, show host, producer, and businessperson. She is known for her roles on the show Modern Family, and in the films Chasing Papi, Madea Goes to Jail, Machete Kills, and Chef, among many other works, and is famous for her curves and lips.
Sofía is the daughter of Margarita Sofía Vergara Dávila and Julio Enrique Vergara Robayo. She is now also an American citizen. She has a son, internet personality Manolo González, with her former husband, José Luis “Joe” González Rosales.
Sofía’s biological cousin, and adoptive sister, is actress and model Sandra Vergara. Sofía is also a second cousin, once removed, of television host Ariadna Gutiérrez.
Sofía’s paternal grandfather was Julio Enrique Vergara Ordosgoitia (the son of Rafael “Coco de Oro” Vergara Vergara and Isabel Ordosgoitia de Vivero). Rafael was the son of José Blas Vergara de la Ossa and Cenobia Vergara.
Sofía’s paternal grandmother was named Esther Robayo Gómez (the daughter of a father surnamed Robayo, and of Pepita Gómez Támara). Pepita was the daughter of Andrés Gómez Patrón and Adolfina Támara López.
Sofía’s maternal grandfather was Hernando Vergara Galvis (the son of Alfredo Máximo Vergara Forno and Ana María Victoria Galvis Matamoros). Alfredo was the son of Jorge Vergara Párraga and Mercedes Forno León. Mercedes was of Italian or part Italian descent. Ana María was the daughter of José Benedicto Galvis and Victoria Matamoros.
Sofía’s maternal grandmother was Rosa Lila Dávila Barreneche (the daughter of Pedro Manuel Agustín Dávila Balti and Rosa Lila Barreneche Olaciregui). Pedro’s father, General Juan Manuel Dávila Pumarejo, was from a prominent family, and was instrumental in the building of the Northern Railroad of Colombia. His brother was industrialist José Domingo Dávila Pumarejo. His father was born in Jamaica, to Colombian parents. Pedro’s mother was Venezuelan emigrant, Auristela Balti, of Maracaibo. The surname Balti is of Italian origin. Sofía’s great-grandmother Rosa was the daughter of Camilo Ernesto Mario Barreneche Díaz Granados and María del Rosario Olaciregui y Capella.
Through her mother, Sofía is a half-second cousin, once removed, of French actress Inès de La Fressange. Sofía’s maternal great-great-grandfather, General Juan Manuel Dávila Pumarejo, was also Inès’ maternal great-grandfather.
Sources: http://www.semana.com
http://www.telemundo47.com
Genealogy of Sofía Vergara – https://www.geni.com
Marriage record of Sofía Vergara to José Luis González Rosales – https://familysearch.org
Genealogy of Sofía’s maternal grandfather, Hernando Vergara Galvis – http://www.genealogiasdecolombia.co
Genealogy of Sofía’s maternal grandmother, Rosa Lila Dávila Barreneche – http://www.genealogiasdecolombia.co
I think she has obviously some Native American blood but she is mainly white. She is probably 3/4 Spanish 1/4 Native American which means that she is “castiza”.
I’m gonna be the first to say it: In general, there are no pure white Spanish-Colombians. Most if not all white “Spanish” Colombians have some Native or black somewhere down the lines. No exception.
Sofia Vergara may look mostly white/European, but she most definitely would have SOME Native American blood, no matter how little.
Pretty interesting site. I’m Colombian, from the same city as Sofia. It’s part of the atlantic coast of Colombia, most people there are mulatos, in my opinion. Like everywhere, some are mostly black, some mostly white, some in the middle. I’m sure there’s some native too, but much, much less than certain other parts of Colombia. There’s a lot of Lebanese in the coast too. I’m part Lebanese, like Shakira.
Look at Panama, it used to be part of Colombia, it’s a coastal region, mostly mulatos as well. People from the coast are different culturally to others in Colombia. Generalizing, we are like other caribbean people. Also, look at the Pacific Coast of Colombia, that’s another story. In places like Choco, most people there are 100% black.
That’s Choco. https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/6f/f9/92/6ff9927c96af1633805409be579eaf0f.jpg
Its obvious that she’s fully white.just look at her, especially her no makeup pics. And her last name is from Spain. So she’s a white woman.
A spanish last name doesn’t indicate whiteness, do you have any idea how colonisation even works? By that logic, black americans with english last names are really white.. She’s mestizo, so she’s probably a mix of white and native colombian.
How do you know what is she? How do you know if she is mestiza or white? Why not mulatto?There are blacks in Colombia.And obviously she has Spanish last name because spanish ancestry not like black americans
Sofia looks like she is mostly of European and African descent. Her mouth and huge back side makes it clear.
wonder if she’s 100 percent spanish
doubt it, but whatever native she has wouldn’t be significant