Emmy Award winning actress and producer, America Ferrara, will be awarded the National Association of Broadcasters Television Chairman's Award this year at the annual NAB Show in April. She will receive the award at the NAB 2017Television Luncheon. The luncheon will be held Monday, April 24 at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort and Casino.
NAB Show, held April 22-27, 2017 in Las Vegas, is the world's largest electronic media show covering the creation, management and delivery of content across all platforms. With 103,000 attendees from 166 countries and 1,700+ exhibitors, NAB Show is the ultimate marketplace for digital media and entertainment. From creation to consumption, across multiple platforms and countless nationalities, NAB Show is home to the solutions that transcend traditional broadcasting and embrace content delivery to new screens in new ways. The National Association of Broadcasters is the premier advocacy association for America's broadcasters. NAB advances radio and television interests in legislative, regulatory and public affairs. Through advocacy, education and innovation, NAB enables broadcasters to best serve their communities, strengthen their businesses and seize new opportunities in the digital age.
NAB Executive Vice President of Television Marcellus Alexander said of Ferrara and the award that,
“America Ferrera is an esteemed and versatile actress who not only entertains, but brings attention to a variety of important national and global issues.She is the embodiment of what this award represents.”
Established to recognize individuals for significant achievement in one or more specific art disciplines in television, the NAB Television Chairman's Award first debuted in 2009 with four-time Emmy and two-time Golden Globe-winning actor Kelsey Grammar as the recipient. The last recipient was film, television and stage actress Keke Palmer in 2016.
Ferrera is best known for her breakthrough role as Betty Suarez on ABC’s comedy
Ugly Betty. She was recognized with a Golden Globe, Emmy, Screen Actors Guild Award, ALMA and Imagen Award for her performance. Ferrera currently produces and stars as Amy in the second season of NBC’s workplace comedy “Superstore.” She is also a contributor in the EPIX TV mini-series
America Divided, a five-part documentary that explores inequality in education, housing, healthcare, labor, criminal justice and other related topics.
Upcoming, she will executive produce MACRO’s digital series
Gente-Fied, a dramatic comedy featuring an all-Latino cast, which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, and
Only Girl, which is a docu-series investigating what it means to be a female in a male-dominated field, ranging from baseball players to airplane pilots. Ferrera most recently appeared in Showtime’s second season of the groundbreaking documentary
The Years of Living Dangerously. She is the executive producer of Refinery 29’s
Behind the Headlines, a multimedia experience comprising video, text and images dedicated to humanizing the conversations around issues that matter to women.
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