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. Winter made her film debut in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) at the age of seven, followed by roles in the films Speed Racer (2008), The Chaperone (2011), Safelight (2015), and The Last Movie Star (2017). She also voiced roles in the animated films Horton Hears a Who! (2008), ParaNorman (2012), Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014), and Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017); and voiced Carrie Kelley / Robin in the two-part animated film Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (2012–2013).