The cast of “Modern Family”: Where are they now?
The cast of “Modern Family”: Where are they now?
Andrew Walsh, Kevin JacobsenSat, April 25, 2026 at 6:00 PM UTC
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(Left to right): Eric Stonestreet as Cameron Tucker, Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Mitchell Pritchett, Ella/Jaden Hiller as Lily Tucker-Pritchett, Ed O'Neill as Jay Pritchett, Julie Bowen as Claire Dunphy, Sofía Vergara as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett, Rico Rodriguez as Manny Delgado, Ty Burrell as Phil Dunphy, Ariel Winter as Alex Murphy, Nolan Gould as Luke Dunphy, and Sarah Hyland as Haley Dunphy in a season 2 promotional photo for 'Modern Family'Credit: ABC
It felt like family sitcoms were largely on their way out in the late 2000s. Then came Modern Family, which blended the trendy mockumentary format with the wacky hijinks of joke-a-second shows like Arrested Development and Everybody Loves Raymond. The show was a ratings smash and awards darling, winning a total of 22 Emmys.
With its heightened yet relatable depiction of a diverse family living in Los Angeles, the show was an instant hit. What kept audiences coming back, though, was the cast, led by Ed O'Neill, Sofía Vergara, Ty Burrell, Julie Bowen, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Eric Stonestreet.
The sitcom has left a lasting legacy and remains highly rewatchable since its conclusion in 2020. Keep scrolling to see the cast of Modern Family, then and now.
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Julie Bowen (Claire Dunphy)
Julie Bowen as Claire Dunphy on 'Modern Family'; Julie Bowen attends the 2024 Baby2Baby Gala presented by Paul Mitchell at Pacific Design Center on Nov. 9, 2024, in West Hollywood, Calif.Credit: Bob D'Amico/ABC; Getty Images for Baby2Baby
Julie Bowen won two Emmys as type-A mom Claire. The actress almost passed on the role after telling her reps not to send her to comedy auditions.
"I was like, ‘I can’t tell a joke, I'm not funny — don't give me those three-jokes-a-page kind of things,’” Bowen said in a 2024 podcast interview with Andy Richter. “My managers were always very supportive, like, ‘You know what? Helen Hunt isn't funny.’ I go… ‘She just won like five Emmys.’ They’re like, ‘Yes. So she’s funny in a different way. She’s not three-jokes-a-page funny. And yet she is wildly funny. Try to be Helen Hunt.’”
During Modern Family's run, the actress also flexed her comedic muscles in Horrible Bosses (2011) and Life of the Party (2018).
After saying goodbye to Claire, she reunited with her Happy Gilmore costar Adam Sandler in Hubie Halloween (2020) and Happy Gilmore 2 (2025), costarred in the time-travel horror-comedy Totally Killer (2023), and landed a leading role in Peacock’s occult comedy series Hysteria!.
Bowen was married to real estate investor and software developer Scott Phillips from 2004 to 2018. They have three sons. Like a Modern Family plotline, she and Jesse Tyler Ferguson both made separate trips to the ER on Thanksgiving with their children in 2024.
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Ty Burrell (Phil Dunphy)
Ty Burrell as Phil Dunphy on 'Modern Family'; Ty Burrell attends the 11th annual Kids in the Spotlight film awards at the Orpheum Theatre on Nov. 6, 2021, in Los Angeles, Calif.Credit: Danny Feld/ABC; Getty
“Cool Dad” character Phil Dunphy was written specifically for Ty Burrell. Despite this, he was rejected by ABC executives several times before they finally relented. He wound up winning two Emmys.
“My agent and wife both advised me that I was being disrespected by ABC. They said, ‘Forget it. Let it go. You don’t need to be doing this,’” Burrell recalled in Entertainment Weekly's oral history of the series. “My wife, being an amazing person, was trying to protect me from going in and having my feelings crushed for a fifth time.”
After Modern Family raised his profile, he landed parts in The Skeleton Twins (2014), Muppets Most Wanted (2014), Finding Dory (2016), and the Fox series Duncanville.
Burrell and his wife, Holly, have been married since 2000 and are parents to two daughters.
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Ed O’Neill (Jay Pritchett)
Ed O'Neill as Jay Pritchett on 'Modern Family'; Ed O’Neill at the official launch of Hulu on Disney+ exclusive cocktail reception on April 5, 2024Credit: Karen Neal/ABC; Disney via Getty
Ed O’Neill was already a TV icon thanks to his curmudgeonly turn as Al Bundy on Married…With Children before landing the role of patriarch Jay Pritchett, for which he was nominated for three Emmys.
In 2013, he told the Television Academy that he knew the show was special at the first table read: “I remember at one point early on like looking up and like, what the hell is going on here? These people are good. I didn’t expect them to be that good… I didn’t know them… So that was amazing. That reading was at a level that’s higher than most first readings.”
In recent years, the veteran actor starred as former L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling in the 2024 miniseries Clipped and had a recurring role opposite Glenn Close on All's Fair.
He has been married to Catherine Rusoff since 1986. They have two daughters.
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Sofía Vergara (Gloria Delgado-Pritchett)
Sofía Vergara as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett on 'Modern Family'; Sofía Vergara at the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards held at Peacock Theater on Sept. 15, 2024, in Los Angeles, CalifCredit: Bob D'Amico/ABC; Variety via Getty
Sofía Vergara played Jay’s wife, the fierce, outspoken Gloria. The role earned her four Emmy nominations and the distinction of being the highest-paid actress on television.
Vergara has often pushed back against criticisms painting Gloria as a stereotypical archetype. “What’s wrong with being a stereotype?” she said to Hola! USA in 2017. “Gloria’s character is inspired by my mom and my aunt. They are both Latin women who grew up in Colombia, like me. They love color, prints, and shoes… Eight years ago nobody had an accent like this on television.”
Her Modern Family success opened up big-screen opportunities, with the actress taking roles in Jon Favreau’s Chef (2014), The Three Stooges (2012), and Hot Pursuit (2015).
Vergara received her fifth Emmy nomination for playing the title role in Netflix’s 2024 series Griselda. She's also served as a judge on America’s Got Talent since 2020.
She was married to Joe Gonzalez from 1991 to 1993. They have a son, actor Manolo Gonzalez Vergara. She was later wed to Joe Manganiello from 2015 to 2024.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Mitchell Pritchett)
Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Mitchell Pritchett on 'Modern Family'; Jesse Tyler Ferguson attends the 2024 Baby2Baby Gala at Pacific Design Center on Nov. 9, 2024, in West Hollywood, Calif.Credit: Danny Feld/ABC; FilmMagic
Jesse Tyler Ferguson earned five Emmy nominations as uptight lawyer Mitchell Pritchett.
On a 2024 episode of his podcast Dinner’s on Me, the out gay actor discussed how the show's popularity seemed to lend him a degree of safety from homophobes. “They would recognize me from being… ‘that gay one from TV and I like that show,’ and there would be a change,” he said. “It kind of gave me this coat of armor, and I had this protection of being this character that people also loved.”
Since Modern Family, Ferguson has guested on The Good Fight, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, and Elsbeth, and appeared in the big-screen comedy Cocaine Bear (2023). He won a Tony in 2022 for his performance in the Broadway revival of Take Me Out.
Ferguson and his husband, Justin Mikita, have been married since 2013 and share two children. The couple founded the non-profit Pronoun, which raises money to fight for LGBTQ+ civil rights.
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Eric Stonestreet (Cameron Tucker)
Eric Stonestreet as Cameron Tucker on 'Modern Family'; Eric Stonestreet backstage at the musical 'Almost Famous' on Broadway at the Jacobs Theatre on Nov. 30, 2022, in New York CityCredit: Bob D'Amico/ABC; Bruce Glikas/WireImage
Eric Stonestreet won two Emmys for bringing the theatrical Cameron Tucker, Mitch’s partner, to life.
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"We wanted to create a couple that people could relate to and enjoy watching,” he said in 2016 in an interview on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT. “The agenda has never been to do anything other than make people laugh… If that opens people's hearts and minds with the idea that people are people no matter their race, creed, gender, sexual orientation, then we’re successful in another area.”
Like most of Modern Family’s cast, the role was a career-changer for Stonestreet after years of bit parts and guest roles. He parlayed his newfound fame into roles in movies like Bad Teacher (2011), The Secret Life of Pets (2017), and HBO’s Confirmation (2016), the latter opposite Kerry Washington and Wendell Pierce.
He reunited with Sofía Vergara as a guest judge on America’s Got Talent in 2020, and later hosted the reality competition series Domino Masters. The Emmy winner returned to scripted comedy for season 2 of The Santa Clauses and recurred as a serial killer on Dexter: Resurrection.
In 2019, the Kansas City native became a part-owner of MLB’s Kansas City Royals. Stonestreet married longtime partner Lindsay Schweitzer in September 2025. The couple began dating in 2016 and got engaged in 2021.
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Rico Rodriguez (Manny Delgado)
Rico Rodriguez as Manny Delgado on 'Modern Family'; Rico Rodriguez attends NALIP's 25th anniversary red carpet celebration at NeueHouse Hollywood on June 28, 2024, in Hollywood, Calif.Credit: Eric McCandless/ABC; Getty
Rico Rodriguez played Gloria’s precocious son Manny.
“Coming to work every day with my cast and crew never actually felt like work, it felt more like hanging out with my extended family,” Rodriguez wrote in an Instagram post in 2020. “Words cannot even begin to describe the life-changing experience I have had on this show. I have, quite literally, grown up right before everyone’s eyes.”
After a cameo in The Muppets (2011), he scored his first lead film role in the chess drama Endgame (2015). He later joined his Modern Family costar Sarah Hyland on The Lion Guard, a spinoff series of The Lion King (1994), as the voice of the zebra Raha.
Rodriguez appeared in a 2024 guest spot on the Disney Channel’s Bunk’d alongside his sister, Raini Rodriguez. He also lent his voice to the animated sports comedy Sneaks (2025).
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Sarah Hyland (Haley Dunphy)
Sarah Hyland as Haley Dunphy on 'Modern Family'; Sarah Hyland at Variety's 2024 Power of Women: Los Angeles Event presented by Lifetime at Mother Wolf on Oct. 24, 2024, in Los Angeles, CalifCredit: Bob D'Amico/ABC; FilmMagic
Sarah Hyland played the ditzy eldest Dunphy child, Haley.
“Sarah could have just been a Valley girl gum-snappy superficial kind of girl if done the wrong way, and she’s found a way to really humanize the character,” series creator Christopher Lloyd told EW in 2010. “She shows the right amount of concern towards her brothers and sisters and a little sassiness towards her parents…”
During Modern Family, she appeared in Vampire Academy (2014) and the TV remake of Dirty Dancing (2017) before headlining the rom-com The Wedding Year (2019).
The actress went on to star with her Modern Family costar Adam DeVine in Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin, and dazzled Broadway audiences in The Great Gatsby and Just in Time.
The former Love Island USA host wed Bachelor Nation star Wells Adams in a 2022 ceremony officiated by Jesse Tyler Ferguson.
In 2024, Hyland, a domestic abuse survivor, was presented with the Courage Award by TV mom Julie Bowen at Variety’s Power of Women event for her advocacy work.
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Ariel Winter (Alex Dunphy)
Ariel Winter as Alex Dunphy on 'Modern Family'; Ariel Winter attends the 4th annual Legacy Ball Honoring Ariel Winter at SLS Hotel, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Beverly Hills, on Oct. 5, 2024, in Los Angeles, Calif.Credit: Bob D'Amico/ABC; Getty
Ariel Winter played Alex, the booksmart middle child of Phil and Claire Dunphy.
Over the years, Winter has carved out a niche in voice work, with roles in the Phineas and Ferb franchise, Sofia the First, and Star Trek: Lower Decks. The actress also landed her dream guest role on Law & Order: SVU.
She competed on the reality competition show Stars on Mars in 2023, where she feuded with castmate Lance Armstrong over his comments about trans athletes. She chose to self-eliminate in episode 10.
Winter is the younger sibling of actors Shanelle and Jimmy Workman. In 2014, her sister was appointed her permanent legal guardian. In 2015, at age 17, she was legally emancipated from her mother.
She told E! News in October 2024 that her onscreen family has become a real-life family — especially her TV brother, Nolan Gould. “He is my brother," she said. "He was my first best friend, which is a really beautiful thing. We met when he was 10 and I was 11, and we’ve gone through so many stages of life together. And we have stuck through it all, thick and thin.”
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Nolan Gould (Luke Dunphy)
Nolan Gould as Luke Dunphy on 'Modern Family'; Nolan Gould at the 4th annual Legacy Ball held at the SLS Hotel on Oct. 5, 2024 in Beverly Hills, Calif.Credit: Eric McCandless/ABC; Variety via Getty
Nolan Gould was the mischievous little Dunphy brother, Luke. But don’t let his goofy onscreen persona fool you: Gould is a member of Mensa.
“The best thing is that he’s not like me and I get to do a lot of physical comedy,” he told EW in 2010. “I get to run into walls or screen doors, things that I’ve always wanted to do… I get to be another person when I go to work.”
The young actor added R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour and Friends With Benefits (2011) to his credits during Modern Family. He also donned an apron for Worst Cooks in America: Celebrity Edition and popped up on The Celebrity Dating Game.
Gould guested on Grey’s Anatomy in 2022, and booked lead roles in the comedies The Nana Project (2023) and Camp (2023).
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Frances Anderson (Lily Tucker-Pritchett)
Frances Anderson as Lily Tucker-Pritchett on 'Modern Family'; Frances Anderson attends the Center Theatre Group opening night performance of 'Hadestown' at Ahmanson Theatre on Oct. 4, 2023, in Los Angeles, CalifCredit: Bob D'Amico/ABC; Getty
Frances Anderson (formerly known as Aubrey Anderson-Emmons) took over the sassy role of Lily starting with the show’s third season. At 4 years old, she became the youngest person to win a Screen Actors Guild award when the cast took home the ensemble prize.
While being on TV may look glamorous from the outside, she told her TikTok followers in 2024, “I think people don't realize, I was working, and if I wasn't working on the set, that I had to do three hours of studio school a day, so I had no time to rest except lunch."
Modern Family was Anderson's professional debut. She has only appeared in three short films since. However, the young star runs a popular YouTube channel, Let's Discuss With Aubrey & Amy, with her mom. She pivoted to a music career in 2025, releasing the EP Drown that August.
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