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Meet the prIChetts
The family tree of this “Modern Family”
looks like this... Patriarch Jay Pritchett
(Ed O’Neill), is divorced but recently
wed to a much younger, sexy Colombian
woman, Gloria (Sofía Vergara); and to
some extent her young son, the overlymature
Manny (Rico Rodriguez).
However, Jay also has two grown children
from his previous marriage: Claire (Julie
Bowen), who is now a “Dunphy” and
has three children of her own with goofy
husband Phil (Ty Burrell) – the popular
Haley (Sarah Hyland ), brainiac Alex (Ariel
Winter ), and clueless Luke (Nolan Gould).
And then there is Jay’s gay son, Mitchell
(Jesse Tyler Ferguson), who lives with his
partner Cameron (Eric Stonestreet), and
their adopted a Vietnamese baby, Lily.
And it is Jay’s son, one half of America’s #1
“gay couple” that will represent the show
in Monaco this week -- Jesse Tyler
Ferguson (sadly, Cameron has
to stay home with Lily).
The writer-producers,
Christopher Lloyd
and Steven Levitan,
weave the show’s
stories out of
various tales of
their own “modern
families”, as well as
those of the cast. For
example, Jesse Tyler
Ferguson revealed
that his character
Mitchell’s running joke
about how Jay (Ed O’Neill),
kept “forgetting” his son is gay,
is rooted in Ferguson’s real life. In reality,
Jesse had to come out to his father three
times over many years before his father
actually believed him. Sometimes truth is
stranger than fiction.
Shot in a mockumentary”fashion (a la “The
Office”), the show won instant acclaim in
Arnaud
Pasquali
Christian
Lelong
Ian
Christie
Jérôme
Kanapa
its first season – nominated for the 2010
Screen Actors Guild Award for Best
Comedy Series Ensemble.
“Not since ‘Frasier’ has a sitcom offered
such an ideal blend of heart and smarts,”
considered Robert Bianco, the USA Today
TV critic, “or proven itself so effortlessly
adept at so many comic variations, from
subtle wordplay to big-laugh slapstick to
everything in between.” He later added:
“As good as it was in its first year, it is even
better in its second.”
Jesse Tyler Ferguson made the decision to
become an actor when he was eight years
old, and soon after joined the Albuquerque
Children’s Theater, where he remained a
member for six years. After graduating high
school, he moved to New York to attend the
American Musical and Dramatic Academy
and began performing in Broadway and off-
Broadway productions, the most notable
of which were the critically-acclaimed,
Tony Award-winning Broadway musical,
“The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling
Bee”. No stranger to television, Ferguson
received rave reviews and was honored by
The Hollywood Reporter in 2006 as one of
‘Ten to Watch’ for his role on the ensemble
sitcom, “The Class.” Additional television
credits include “Do Not Disturb” and “Ugly
Betty.”
For his work on ‘Modern Family,’ Ferguson
was nominated for an Emmy Award
for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a
Comedy Series and also received a Screen
Actors Guild Award nomination (2010) for
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble
in a Comedy Series.
The funny truth about America’s #1 gay
couple is that Stonestreet is straight, and
Ferguson is not. In fact, Ferguson jokingly
calls Stonestreet... “gay-for-pay.”
DIDJa know?
Baby Lily is played by twins.
Michael
Eaton
Pascal
Charpentier
Stewart
Dickison