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Fernanda Torres
Playing Eunice Paiva in I’m Still Here and winning major international acting awards.
Love Me Forever or Never · The End
- Born
- 15 September 1965
- Birthplace
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Fernanda Torres
Fernanda Torres is a Brazilian actor and writer with a career in cinema, theatre and television comedy. Her parents, Fernanda Montenegro and Fernando Torres, were also actors.
Early life
Acting family
Grew up around theatre and film in Rio de Janeiro.
Stage training
Attended O Tablado and began performing as a teenager.
Career
- 1983
Film debut
Appeared in Innocência.
- 1980s–2000s
Screen and stage
Built a varied career encompassing dramatic films, theatre and television comedy.
- 2024–2025
I’m Still Here
Her performance as Eunice Paiva earned a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination.
Selected work
Love Me Forever or Never
Won the acting prize at Cannes for Arnaldo Jabor’s film.
The End
Published her debut novel, originally titled Fim.
I’m Still Here
Played a woman whose husband disappeared under Brazil’s military dictatorship.
Beyond work
Writing
Has also worked as a columnist and published a second novel.
Family
Has two sons with filmmaker Andrucha Waddington.
Sources & photo credit
Life, career and references ↗Institutional source ↗Photo: LucaFazPhoto. CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
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