Fernanda Torres facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Fernanda Torres
Torres in 2024
Born	(1965-09-15) 15 September 1965 (age 59) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Spouse(s)	Andrucha Waddington ​ (m. 1997)​
Children	2
Parents	Fernando Torres (father) Fernanda Montenegro (mother)

Fernanda Pinheiro Monteiro Torres (born 15 September 1965) is a renowned Brazilian actress, writer, and one of the most celebrated figures in Brazilian cinema and literature. Born in Rio de Janeiro to iconic actors Fernanda Montenegro and Fernando Torres, she grew up immersed in the world of art and performance. Over the course of her career, Torres has achieved critical acclaim for her work across film, television, theater, and literature, solidifying her legacy as a multifaceted artist and cultural icon.

Throughout her acting career, Torres has received numerous awards, including Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival for Love Me Forever or Never. For her critically acclaimed performance in the drama film I'm Still Here (2024), Torres became the first Brazilian and Latin actor to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, having also won the Critics Choice Award for Best Actress – International Film. For the same film, she has also been nominated for the Satellite Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama.

As a writer, her debut novel, The End, sold over 200,000 copies in Brazil and was translated into 7 other languages.

Acting

Debuting as an actress at thirteen, Torres' career spans more than four decades in theater, television, literature and cinema.

At the age of 16, Torres had her film debut in Inocência, by Walter Lima Junior. Alongside Walter Salles, Torres was met with critical acclaim for her roles in Foreign Land (1994), Midnight (1998) and I'm Still Here (2024). Torres received numerous awards in her career, including the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress prize in 1986 for the drama film Love Me Forever or Never by Arnaldo Jabor. In 2003, she wrote her first script for O Redentor (2004), with her brother Cláudio Torres.

Torres during the 81st Venice International Film Festival

In her long theatrical career, the monologue A Casa dos Budas Ditosos, based on the novel of the same name by João Ubaldo Ribeiro, debuted in 2003 reaching more than one million spectators.

On television, she acted in numerous popular comedy series, such as Os Normais and Tapas e Beijos, produced by TV Globo. As a presenter, she developed the project Minha Estupidez and Bicho Homem for television, and the podcast The Playlist Of My Life, as an interviewer and scriptwriter, on the Deezer platform.

Torres was the second Brazilian to ever be nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, the first one being her mother Fernanda Montenegro 26 years before her. She became the first Brazilian to ever win that award.

Writing

In 2007, she began writing for newspapers and magazines as a columnist, publishing a weekly column in the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo since 2010.

In 2014, Torres released her first novel, Fim (The End), which sold more than 200,000 copies in Brazil and was translated into seven languages. She published her second novel, A Glória e Seu Cortejo de Horrores (Glory and Its Litany of Horrors), in 2017.

Her first novel, The End was adapted into a 10-chapter minisseries for Brazilian streaming service Globoplay in 2023.

Personal life

From Portuguese and Italian descent,, she is 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).

Filmography

Film

Television

Books

• 2013 – Fim (The End)
• 2017 – A Glória e seu Cortejo de Horrores

Awards and nominations

See also

In Spanish: Fernanda Torres para niños