Sofia Vergara was snapped in Los Angeles on Monday filming her upcoming Netflix miniseries Griselda.
The 49-year-old actress donned a green jumpsuit with red highlights on the set of the production, which will be released in six installments on the streaming service.
The Barranquilla, Colombia native plays the role of late Colombian drug lord Griselda Blanco – who was also known as La Madrina and the Black Widow – in the miniseries.
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The latest: Sofia Vergara, 49, was snapped in Los Angeles on Monday filming her upcoming Netflix miniseries Griselda, in which she plays late Colombian drug lord Griselda Blanco
Vergara, who is married to actor Joe Manganiello, 45, wore her dark brown locks down and parted with curls at the bottom, accessorizing with sunglasses with reddish tint.
Vergara, who is an executive producer on the project, portrays the role of drug trafficker Blanco in the miniseries.
Vergara, who played Gloria Delgado-Pritchett on Modern Family, is working with director Andrés Baiz on the project, with Ingrid Escajeda and Doug Miro as showrunners.
Vergara has been working on development of the miniseries for eight years with executive producer Luis Balaguer for Latin World Entertainment, Entertainment Weekly reported.
The Barranquilla, Colombia native plays the role of late Colombian drug lord – who was also known as La Madrina and the Black Widow – in the miniseries
The actress was seen keeping warm in a puffy black coat while on set in LA
Last month, Netflix revealed the names of the performers rounding out the cast of the crime drama, including Alberto Guerra, Vanessa Ferlito, Alberto Ammann, Christian Tappan, Diego Trujillo, Paulina Davila, Gabriel Sloyer, Juliana Aidén Martinez, Martin Rodriguez and José Zúñiga.
The show will follow Blanco’s rise as a drug trafficker from Colombia to Miami, where she was a key player in the Medellin Cartel amid the infamous Cocaine Cowboy Wars in South Florida.
In a 1993 internal DEA publication called Drug Enforcement, the agency described Blanco’s bloodthirsty nature amid the drug wars.
‘Griselda loved killings. Bodies lined the streets of Miami as a result of her feuds,’ the report read, according to The Independent. ‘She gathered around her a group of henchmen known as the Pisteleros.
‘Initiation into the group was earned by killing someone and cutting off a body part as proof of the deed. It is said that one of the Pisteleros assassinated a rival by riding up to him on a motorcycle and shooting him point-blank.’
Blanco was imprisoned from 1985 thru 2004 in connection with drug trafficking and murder, and was subsequently deported to Colombia in 2004
The show will follow Blanco’s rise as a drug trafficker from Colombia to Miami, where she was a key player in the Medellin Cartel amid the infamous Cocaine Cowboy Wars in South Florida
Blanco was fatally shot at 69 in September of 2012 in her native Medellín, Colombia as she left a butcher’s shop
The DEA noted that Blanco ‘not only killed rivals and wayward lovers, but used murder as a means of cancelling debts she didn’t want to pay.’
Blanco was imprisoned from 1985 thru 2004 in connection with drug trafficking and murder, and was subsequently deported to Colombia in 2004.
Blanco was fatally shot at 69 in September of 2012 in her native Medellín, Colombia as she left a butcher’s shop. She was killed by a shooter riding a motorcycle, a violent strategy she was linked to during her time in charge.
Blanco was previously portrayed by Catherine Zeta-Jones in the 2017 Lifetime film Cocaine Godmother: The Griselda Blanco Story. Jennifer Lopez has also been linked to an HBO project about Blanco titled The Godmother.
Her story was also chronicled in the 2006 doc Cocaine Cowboys and the 2008 follow-up Cocaine Cowboys: Hustlin’ with the Godmother.
