She 's played on both the big and small screens during her more than three-decade career . `` I am stunned and heartbroken , '' tweets actor Lou Diamond Phillips . The actress is one of the most recognizable faces in Hollywood after starring as a young woman who becomes pregnant with her first child on the hit TV series 'Sex And The City' from 1999 to She is known for appearing as Sofia Vergara 's mother in the ABC sitcom `` Modern Family '' Peña is survived by her mother , a sister , her husband and two children .
`` I am stunned and heartbroken , '' tweets actor Lou Diamond Phillips . The actress is one of the most recognizable faces in Hollywood after starring as a young woman who becomes pregnant with her first child on the hit TV series 'Sex And The City' from 1999 to She is known for appearing as Sofia Vergara 's mother in the ABC sitcom `` Modern Family '' Peña is survived by her mother , a sister , her husband and two children .