Fernanda Torres
Fernanda Pinheiro Torres (Rio de Janeiro, September 15, 1965), is a Brazilian actress, writer, columnist and screenwriter. She is the daughter of Oscar-nominated actress Fernanda Montenegro and actor Fernando Torres.
In May 1986, she received the Best Actress Award at Cannes Festival for Arnaldo Jabor's "Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar", at the age of 20.
She's married to movie producer and director Andrucha Waddington, who directed her and her mother in the 2005 film "The House of Sand". They have two sons together, Joaquim (b. 2000) and Antônio (born on April 10, 2008). She is also the stepmother of João (b. 1993) and Pedro (b. 1995).
In 2003, she wrote her first script ("O Redentor", 2004), with the assistance of her brother, cinematographer Cláudio Torres.
In 2025, she received the Golden Globe award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama and an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role, both for her performance in "I'm Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui)".
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.7066 |
| Birthday | 1965-09-14 |
| Place of Birth | Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Also Known As | フェルナンダ・トーレス, 费尔南达·托雷斯, |
2009
The Invisible Woman
6.1/266
A man is abandoned by his wife and then falls in love with his neighbor, the perfect, ideal woman. The only problem: she doesn't exist!
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The Invisible Woman
1997
Four Days in September
7.5/134
Fernando, a journalist, and his friend César join terrorist group MR8 in order to fight Brazilian dictatorial regime during the late sixties. César, h...
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Four Days in September
1997
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
0/0
"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."
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Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
2009
Os Normais 2 - A Noite Mais Maluca de Todas
6.549/72
After thirteen years of engagement, the boring sex life of Rui and Vani is limited to one intercourse every other week. They decide to seek excitement...
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Os Normais 2 - A Noite Mais Maluca de Todas
2005
The House of Sand
6.7/55
A woman is taken along with her mother in 1910 to a far-away desert by her husband, and after his passing, is forced to spend the next 59 years of her...
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The House of Sand
2003
Os Normais: O Filme
6.841/151
The film shows the day when Rui and Vani first met. It was at their wedding (with other partners). Vani was going to marry Sérgio, and Rui would marry...
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Os Normais: O Filme
2007
Basic Sanitation, the Movie
7.112/143
When they discover their town lacks funding for a sewage system, but does have a federal grant to make a movie, a group of villagers decide to make a...
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Basic Sanitation, the Movie
1986
Love Me Forever or Never
6.7/27
Young and recently separated couple meet in a modern house and start discussing their past relationship.
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Love Me Forever or Never
2007
Playing
8.4/59
Following a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which are then re-enacted by actresses, blurrin...
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Playing
1985
That Damned Meat
6.8/16
Nhô Quim has only one dream in his life: to eat red meat. He meets Carula, a young woman anxious to get married, who promises him that in their weddin...
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That Damned Meat
1983
Innocence
4.7/9
In the 19th century, a country girl is seduced by a young doctor who's staying at her house for a few days, caring for her, and tries to hide the forb...
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Innocence
1989
Kuarup
4.3/10
This epic Brazilian film was based on the equally epic novel by Antonio Callado. Set between 1954 and 1964, the film's focus is the saga of Jesuit pri...
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Kuarup
2011
Consideração do Poema
9/1
Carlos Drummond de Andrade's poetry is read by exponents of Brazilian culture, such as Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Adriana Calcanhoto, Fernanda Tor...
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Consideração do Poema
1996
Foreign Land
7.2/59
During a time of political upheaval in Brazil, two strangers meet by coincidence in a foreign land and end up caught in the middle of a gem smuggling...
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Foreign Land
2024
I'm Still Here
7.901/1044
A woman married to a former politician during the 1971 military dictatorship in Brazil is forced to reinvent herself and chart a new course for her fa...
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I'm Still Here
1999
Twins
5.9/11
Identical twins Iara and Marilena like to play games and deceive men by pretending to be each other. But when they fall in love with the same man, a r...
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Twins
1991
The Flash and Crash Days
8/1
“Flash” is a post-industrial play with a touch of stochastic Freudian genealogy that has been to all the royal theaters and opera houses - then back t...
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The Flash and Crash Days
1985
Com Licença, Eu Vou à Luta
5.4/8
In Nilópolis, Eliane, a 15-year-old girl, who is the daughter of a lower-middle-class couple, falls in love with Otávio, a 33-year-old divorcee. Upon...
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Com Licença, Eu Vou à Luta
1991
One Man’s War
6.8/4
Anthony Hopkins plays an English medical doctor living with his family in Paraguay and treating the poor people from the surroundings, who has his lif...
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One Man’s War
1998
Midnight
5.4/11
On December 31st 1999, destiny brings a fugitive prisoner and a depressed middle class teacher together, as the new millennium approaches bringing hop...
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Midnight
1989
Fire and Passion
8/2
A bus tour to São Paulo’s touristic spots bumps into several strange people.
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Fire and Passion
1994
Savage Capitalism
4.1/5
Elisa is a journalist who becomes romantically involved with Hugo, a director of the company Jota Mineração, when she receives an order to write a sto...
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Savage Capitalism
2017
Asdrúbal Trouxe o Trombone
6.1/24
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Asdrúbal Trouxe o Trombone
1990
Kiss 2348/72
6.8/6
Worker Norival's life turns upside down when he is caught kissing his co-worker Catarina during work hours. He is fired for just cause and faces the h...
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Kiss 2348/72
1988
Your Neighbour's Wife
4.7/7
Two lovers meet again in strange circumstances, when she is a recent widow not particularly grieving, and he is a divorcée mourning his daughter. They...
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Your Neighbour's Wife
1984
Amenic - Entre o Discurso e a Prática
10/1
A couple of filmmakers facing difficulties to make a film in the midst of an economic crisis, affecting the relationship between them.
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Amenic - Entre o Discurso e a Prática
1986
Sonho Sem Fim
6/3
The story of one of Brazilian cinema's pioneers, Eduardo Abelim, from the start of his career, in Rio de Janeiro, until his filming of the 1930 Revolu...
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Sonho Sem Fim
1997
Miramar
5.7/3
Story with some autobiographical touches taken from director's life.
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Miramar
1996
The Jew
5/5
The story of Brazilian Antônio José da Silva, a jewish poet, playwright and lawyer living in the 18th Century Lisbon, who managed to avoid Inquisition...
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The Jew
1999
Treason
6.4/7
This film shows three episodes: "The First Sin" portrays the relationship of a man and married woman; in "Devilish", the desire between a young woman...
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Treason
2017
The Magnificent 8
8/5
On a Sunday, the actors Maria Ribeiro, Fernanda Torres, Wagner Moura, Carolina Dieckmann, Sophie Charlotte, Mateus Solano, Alexandre Nero and Du Mosco...
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The Magnificent 8
2008
Critic
7.9/19
Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 20...
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Critic
2019
Endless June - Brazil’s New Political Culture
6.5/2
An overview of Brazil's riots of June 2013, which were the beginning of a great political change that would take the country in the following years.
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Endless June - Brazil’s New Political Culture
2019
Fire in the Forest
0/0
The film shows the daily life of indigenous village Piyulaga, home of Waurá tribe --an ethnicity of 560 people who live at Xingu Park in Mato Grosso,...
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Fire in the Forest
2009
Domingos
2/1
A look into the life and mind of Brazilian playwright and filmmaker Domingos Oliveira through his daily activities and artistic deeds.
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Domingos
2017
Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century
0/0
Two years of research and visits to collections, cinematheques and museums; almost seventy interviews that generated 30 hours of recorded material; mo...
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Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century
1988
Hide and Seek
0/0
A couple, locked up in a secluded house on a rainy night, decide to play hide and seek. She hides. He seeks. The house becomes a huge box of surprises...
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Hide and Seek
2020
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
7.206/17
Besieged by cancer and nearing the end, the genius Argentine-Brazilian filmmaker Héctor Babenco (1946-2016) asks Bárbara Paz, his wife, for one last w...
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Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
2020
Gilda, Lúcia and The Goat
6.6/4
The special brings the continuation of the plot starring Gilda and Lúcia in the series 'Amor e Sorte'. After a period of forced coexistence due to soc...
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Gilda, Lúcia and The Goat
2019
Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvelous Entanglement
8.5/2
The multiple screen installation and photographic series A Marvellous Entanglement (2019) traverses a collection of Lina Bo Bardi’s most iconic buildi...
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Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvelous Entanglement
2004
Redeemer
7/26
Célio Rocha believes he was assigned by God Himself a difficult mission: to persuade his childhood friend Otávio Sabóia, a corrupt entrepeneur in the...
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Redeemer
2024
Tributo: Fernanda Montenegro
9.7/3
Fernanda Montenegro opens the doors of her home and recalls remarkable stories, from more modest productions to the Oscar ceremony, in the company of...
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Tributo: Fernanda Montenegro
1985
Madame Cartô
0/0
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Os Corretores
0/0
A comedy about a couple of real estate agents.
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Os Corretores
2019
Blitz, O Filme
10/1
A documentary that chronicles the story of Blitz, one of the most famous Brazilian 80s rock bands known for their humorous, irreverent lyrics and free...
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Blitz, O Filme
2006
O Caso Morel
0/0
A series of conversations between a detective and an imprisoned artist accused of murdering one of his former mates.
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O Caso Morel
2025
Films to Die For
0/0
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