Sofía Vergara Jokes She Was 'Robbed' of an Emmy Win for the Fifth Time AfterGriseldaLoss

Mar. 15, 2025

Sofía Vergara attends the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards at Peacock Theater on September 15, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.Photo:Kevin Mazur/Getty

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Sofía Vergarahas a bone to pick with the Television Academy.

The actress made history as the first Latina to be nominated for outstanding lead actress in a limited or anthology series or movie forGriseldaat the 2024Emmy Awards. But afterthe award went to Jodie Foster forTrue Detective: Night Country, Vergara took to social media for a sarcastic clapback.

“They robbed me of the Emmy for the fifth time,” she said in Spanish in the clip, referring to the fact that she has previously been nominated four times forModern Family.

“Wow.Griseldawas my first dramatic role ever, and it took us 15 years to bring her to life. I’m incredibly grateful to everyone who was a part of this series. I could have never done this without my director Andres Baiz, my costar Alberto Guerra, Eric Newman and the full creative team, my partner and producer Luis Balaguer, Ted Sarandos, Bela Bajaria, and their team at Netflix, and all the amazing cast and crew," she continued.

“I never dreamed that afterModern FamilyI would be able to work on something as special asGriselda.”

At the series premiere in January, Vergara told PEOPLE"a lot of work" and “a lot of preparation” went into making the show, which saw her embodythe real-life Colombian drug queenpin.

“I had to really investigate what it meant to be a woman in that era. A mother, a Colombian woman… that turned into this monster. So, it was a really difficult task for me to understand it,” she said.

Sofía Vergara as Griselda in “Griselda”.Courtesy of Netflix

Courtesy of Netflix

However, there were several similarities she could pull from to channel the drug boss. “We are both Colombian, we are both immigrants, we are both mothers, we are both women. So I did relate to her a lot.”

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source: people.com