Ryan Piers Williams Archives

America Ferrara arrives at JFK airport in New York City after a flight from Los Angeles on Friday afternoon.

The 23-year-old Ugly Betty star was accompanied by her long time boyfriend Ryan Piers Williams.

Ugly Betty returns April 24 with the first of five new episodes. America’s next film, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, opens this summer on Aug. 8.

FYI: America has two dogs — a Golden Retriever named Buddy and a Great Dane (female).

10+ pictures inside of America Ferrera and Ryan Piers Williams arriving in the Big Apple… More Here! »

Ugly Betty star America Ferrera and longtime boyfriend Ryan Williams make a quick visit to actress pal Eva Longoria’s newly opened restaurant, Beso, in Hollywood on Wednesday night.

America, 23, and Ryan, 26, helped celebrate the Desperate Housewife’s 33rd birthday alongside Eva’s costars Marcia Cross and Dana Delany.

Looks like the couple picked up a little something something for Eva!

Ugly Betty will be returning on April 24th with the first of five new episodes.

The currently unemployed Ugly Betty star America Ferrera, aka Betty Suarez, enjoys some downtime with her boyfriend Ryan Williams in Silver Lake, Calif. on Saturday.

The cute couple cuddled while grabbing fish tacos at Mexican restaurant El Siete Mares (The Seven Seas) after visiting friends.

America, 23, has had lots of time on her hands as her hit ABC drama has been on hold as the writers strike enters its fourth week.

Earlier this week, America picked up best actress at the 2007 Family Television Awards for Ugly Betty, while the show won best comedy.

Another larger-than-life celebrity hits the cover of W Magazine! In their May 2007 issue, Ugly Betty actress America Ferrera graces the cover. Here’s a great excerpt about her boyfriend from college, Ryan Piers Williams:

It was at USC that Ferrera met her now boyfriend, Ryan Piers Williams. A tall, handsome, Texas-born aspiring director who currently works for Steven Soderbergh, he cast her in his student film, and the two currently live together and share a golden retriever named Buddy, whom they refer to as “our baby.” At Ferrera’s W photo shoot, Williams sits by her side while she’s being coiffed and made up, telling her how pretty she looks and bravely revealing to the crew that he once allowed her to put mascara on his lashes. Says Ferrera, giggling, “He has the longest eyelashes, but they’re blond at the tips, and I just wanted to see what it would look like.”

As it turned out, Betty’s immense popularity has brought an avalanche of attention to Ferrera. Now paparazzi stalkings and demands for autographs are part of her daily life. What truly baffles her are the machinations of the tabloid press. In February one weekly gossip rag ran with a story that Ferrera and Williams were engaged, giving rise to BETTY TO WED headlines all over the Internet. “It’s totally not true!” she insists of the rumor. “And his mom called me and my sisters were calling me, and I was like, ‘Are you kidding? Did you not think I would tell you first?’ And then I put out a statement that it wasn’t true, and that became a whole news story. So now it’s news when something doesn’t happen? Like, news flash: California did not get hit by a hurricane today.”

For America’s full interview with W Magazine, click here. For behind-the-scenes video footage of her cover shoot, click here.

Kirsten Dunst was the April 2007 W Magazine cover girl.