America Ferrera won an Emmy Award:America Ferrera picked up the trophy for best lead actress in a comedy at the 59th annual Emmy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles Sunday night.The “Ugly Betty” star beat out fellow nominees Tina Fey from “30 Rock,” Felicity Huffman from “Desperate Housewives,” Julia Louis-Dreyfus from “The New Adventures of Old Christine” and Mary Louise-Parker from “Weeds.”"It is truly an amazing, wonderful thing that happens when your dreams come true,” Ferrera said. “I just wish that for everybody that they get to do what inspires them and inspires them to make a change in the world.”This is Ferrera’s first Emmy win.Congratulations America!Source: UPII also found this article online…America Ferrera: WOMAN OF THE WEEKHer charming grin, insured earlier this year for a tooth-grinding $10 million (£5 million), once again lit up the red carpet at the weekend after she won this year’s Emmy award for best comedy actress, fending off competition from nominees that included stalwarts such as Desperate Housewives’ Felicity Huffman. … The actress, whose first big movie role was as Ana in the 2002 coming of age film Real Women Have Curves, is known for taking as pragmatic a stance in real life as her alter-ego Betty Suarez does on screen. On the topic of weight, Ferrera has declared: “I think it’s hilarious when people call Jessica Alba or Eva Longoria curvy. Come on! They’re not curvy; they’re small. I’m curvy.”Her straight-talking honesty may get Betty into trouble at the ultra-chic New York fashion magazine Mode, but it is also part of the character’s charm and, along with her good nature, a characteristic that Ferrera admires. Read More…