Fernanda Torres | |
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 Torres in 2024 | |
| Born | Fernanda Pinheiro Monteiro Torres 15 September 1965 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Years active | 1981—present |
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| Children | 2 |
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Fernanda Pinheiro Monteiro Torres (born 15 September 1965) is a Brazilian actress and writer. She was born in Rio de Janeiro to actors Fernando Torres and Fernanda Montenegro. She became an actress at age thirteen. She won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for Love Me Forever or Never (1986).
She is known for her role in the 2004 movie I'm Still Here. For this role, Torres became the first Brazilian, Latin American, and Portuguese-speaking actor to win the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. She also received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress, making her the second Brazilian actress, after her mother, to be nominated in this category.
Her first novel, The End, sold over 200,000 copies in Brazil, was translated into 7 other languages and was made into a miniseries.
Torres is of Portuguese and Italian descent. She is married to movie producer and director Andrucha Waddington. The couple has two sons. She is also stepmother of two sons, from Andrucha's first marriage.
