Patriarch Jay Pritchett, played by O’Neill, anchors the show. Stan The Annuity Man. Skip Navigation. Vergara does owe quite a lot of her fortune to her role as Gloria Pritchett on «Modern Family. Some defenders of the system point out that the disparity could be chalked up to the fact that more men star in more profitable action and superhero franchises. Despite longstanding campaigns to the contrary, it’s untrue that men and women in America receive vastly different pay for otherwise identical work.