Silvio Horta, the creator and executive producer of of ABC series UglyBetty, died in Miami at age 45
has died in Miami, his agent confirmed Tuesday. He was 45. , was a breakout success, earning America Ferrera an Emmy for her turn as Betty Suarez. The show was co-produced by Reveille and ran from 2006-10, with Horta serving as showrunner and head writer. that he originally envisioned Betty not as a fashion writer but as an FBI agent working undercover at the magazine.
"I'm met with just crickets," Horta recalled of his pitch to executive producers Ben Silverman and Teri Weinberg. "They said, 'Look, we think what was done originally worked and stay with that. Don’t shy away.' ". I think they were thinking, like, Alexander the Great. I never got it." The son of Cuban immigrants, Horta was born in Miami on Aug. 14, 1974. His parents divorced when he was 6. He graduated from Coral Gables Senior High School in 1992 — the same year he came out as gay, he said — and attended NYU's Tisch School of the Arts., a horror film that starred Jared Leto and grossed $60 million worldwide. He then wrote for the series
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