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My Take
What impresses me most about Ariel Winter is how deliberately she has managed the trickiest career arc in entertainment: growing up on camera. Playing Alex Dunphy for eleven seasons of Modern Family could have typecast her forever, yet she quietly stacked up parallel skills in voice work, singing, and even screenwriting while pursuing an education at UCLA. That tells me she treats acting as a craft within a larger life, not an identity to cling to. Child stars who diversify early tend to be the ones still working at forty, and I would bet on her being one of them. The ensemble awards are nice; her self-possession is the real achievement.
Overview
Ariel Winter Workman (born January 28, 1998) is an American actress. She gained her career breakthrough and stardom in the 2010s for playing the intelligent and nerdy Alex Dunphy in the ABC sitcom Modern Family (2009–2020), for which she and her several costars won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series four consecutive times from 2010 to 2013.
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Ariel Winter
- Name (Japanese)
- アリエル・ウィンター
- Reading
- ありえる・うぃんたー
- Born
- January 28, 1998 (age 28)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aquarius / Tiger
- Origin
- Fairfax, Virginia, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 2 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- television actor / actor / singer / voice actor / screenwriter
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- University of California, Los Angeles
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.