By Marc and Hunter

Sofia Vergara was born on July 10, 1972 (she is 41) in Columbia.

Her mother, Margarita Vergara Dávila de Vergara, is a housewife and her father Julio Enrique Vergara Robayo, produced cattle for the meat industry. "Toti" was the nickname given to Vergara by her five brothers and sisters and many cousins. She grew up in Barranquilla, and was raised as a devout Catholic in a well-off family attending a private bilingual Spanish///English school known as Marymount School Barranquilla. After a marriage at 18 and divorce two years later, Vergara studied pre-dentistry at a university in Clombia for three years. Then, many opportunities arose for her to work in modeling and in show business and Vergara decided to pursue them leaving her undergraduate studies two semesters shy of her undergraduate degree. In Colombia, her older brother was murdered in 1998 during an attempt to kidnap him. She brought her son, mother, and sister with her. Her cousin and adopted sister, Sandra, is also a television actress in the United States.