Betty Suarez / America Ferrera

Betty Suarez portrayed by America Ferera

Betty Suarez lives in the Jackson Heights neighborhood in the New York City of Queens In junior high, Betty won the Good Citizens award. Betty gave the award back to the school but later took it back and the principal called her a bad citizen. She attended Queens Borough High School, graduating in 2002, where she was salutatorian and received a Regents diploma.

She attended Queens College, described as "one of America's best value colleges" She graduated QC in December 2005, Cum Laude She was treasurer of the Latina Women's League, as well as yearbook editor and a contributor for the school newspaper, It should be noted her real goal is to become a magazine publisher, which explains her journalistic credentials.

Suarez is fluent in English and Spanish, and can speak some Mandarin Chinese.[2] She can also speak some Portuguese, as she called a spa in Brazil during one episode.