Vergara rose to prominence while co-hosting two television shows for Spanish-language television network Univisión in the late 1990s. Her first notable acting job in English was in the film "Chasing Papi" (2003). She subsequently appeared in "Four Brothers" (2005) and the comedies Tyler Perry's "Meet the Browns" (2008) and "Madea Goes to Jail" (2009), receiving an ALMA Award nomination for the latter. In 2009, she began playing Gloria Delgado-Pritchett in the ABC comedy series "Modern Family", for which she was nominated for five Golden Globe Awards, four Primetime Emmy Awards, and seven Screen Actors Guild Awards.