Sofia Vergara has earned her fifth Emmy Award nomination today for her portrayal of real-life drug queenpin Griselda Blanco in the Netflix miniseries Griselda, the first dramatic role of her career.

Sofia Vergara opened up about playing drug lord Griselda Blanco after her brother was killed by a cartel in 1996. (Getty Images | Netflix) "It destroyed my mom," she continued.

When Sofía Vergara invited the “Narcos” showrunner Eric Newman to her home in Los Angeles in 2015 to pitch a TV show about the Colombian drug lord Griselda Blanco, she’d done her research ...