What Sofia Vergara Has Done Since Modern Family Ended
Modern Family ended in 2020. Sofia Vergara had already been announced as a judge on America's Got Talent two months earlier. Since then she has given two golden buzzers, both of which won the season, earned a historic Emmy nomination for Griselda, and launched six new product lines.
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Modern Family ended in 2020 after eleven years. Sofia Vergara had already taken her next job two months before the last episode aired.
In February 2020 she was announced as a judge on America's Got Talent for its fifteenth season. She has appeared on it for six consecutive seasons since.
Two Golden Buzzers, and Both of Them Won
Every America's Got Talent judge gets one golden buzzer a season, which sends an act straight through to the live rounds. It is the single piece of real power a judge has on the show.
Vergara has used hers on Mayyas in 2022 and on Jessica Sanchez in 2025.
Both acts went on to win the season.
Via America's Got Talent
The Timeline
| Date | What happened |
|---|---|
| February 2020 | Announced as a judge on America's Got Talent, season 15 |
| April 2020 | Modern Family ends after 250 episodes |
| 2020 | Sofia Vergara x Foster Grant eyewear launches |
| 2021 | Sofia Intimates launches at Walmart |
| 2022 | Golden buzzer for Mayyas, who go on to win the season |
| 2022 | Sofia Jewelry and Sofía Home launch at Walmart |
| June 2023 | Toty, her beauty line, launches |
| January 2024 | Griselda is released on Netflix |
| 2024 | Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for Griselda. Dios Mio! Coffee launches |
| 2025 | Golden buzzer for Jessica Sanchez, who goes on to win the season |
Griselda, and a Nomination That Had Not Happened Before
In 2024 Vergara played Griselda Blanco, the real Colombian drug trafficker, in the Netflix miniseries Griselda. She was also an executive producer on it.
The performance brought a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie. She was the first Latina born in a Latin American country ever nominated in that category.
She lost to Jodie Foster. She also received a Golden Globe nomination for the role.
It was as far from Gloria as the industry allows a single actor to travel, and she had to produce it herself to get there.
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The Part Nobody Counts
Away from the screen, Vergara has been running a retail business for over a decade, and most of it sits in places people do not look for celebrity brands.
Sofía Jeans has been at Walmart since 2019, joined by Sofia Intimates in 2021 and Sofia Jewelry and Sofía Home in 2022. There is a furniture line with Rooms To Go that has been running since 2013, an eyewear line with Foster Grant since 2020, a fragrance range that started in 2014, Toty in beauty from June 2023, and Dios Mio! Coffee from 2024.
Here is the number that frames the last six years properly.
Since Modern Family ended, Vergara has taken one scripted leading role. In the same period she has launched six new product lines.
Via Netflix
JenzNews Take: Two golden buzzers, two seasons won. That is the statistic worth sitting with, because it is the one thing on her resume that cannot be explained by fame, money or a producer credit. A golden buzzer is one pick a year on a live show with no second chances, and she has gone two for two. People have spent fifteen years discussing her accent and her casting. Almost nobody has noticed that she is the best talent spotter on that panel.
Where She Is Now
Six seasons on America's Got Talent, one historic Emmy nomination, and a product catalogue that runs from denim to coffee.
Modern Family ended in 2020, and by the measure of how much she is actually doing, it was not the end of anything.
