Career: Ferrera followed her appearance in Real Women Have Curves with roles in TV series including Touched By An Angel and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. She also starred in the movies The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (2005), Lords of Dogtown (2005) and Steel City (2006), but only became a household name after she was approached by Salma Hayek to take the lead role in Ugly Betty, the US remake of a successful Colombian soap opera. The series was popular on both sides of the Atlantic and ran for four series. Since Ugly Betty ended, she has appeared in The Good Wife, and in November 2011, she made her London stage debut playing Roxie Hart in the musical Chicago in the West End. She voices the character Astrid in the How to Train Your Dragon movies.

Career: Started out with Los Angeles improvisational theatre group The Groundlings, and her first big TV break came in the sitcom Mad About You, playing feisty waitress Ursula. Since then, Friends has made her a familiar face to millions across the globe. She has also appeared in several movies, including Analyze This, and the sequel Analyze That, with Billy Crystal and Robert De Niro, and The Opposite of Sex, which won her a prestigious New York Film Critics Award. In 2005, she appeared in short-lived sitcom The Comeback.