There’s an intrinsic value to every word Fernanda Montenegro speaks. In Portuguese, from her native Rio de Janeiro, the Oscar-nominated Brazilian actress repeatedly ensures the interpreter ...

Fernanda Torres in the film “I’m Still Here,” during a showing at a theater in Rio de Janeiro, Dec. 4, 2024. Torres and her 95-year-old mother Fernanda Montenegro share the role of Eunice ...

Arlete Torres. Fernanda Montenegro is the artistic name of Arlete Pinheiro Monteiro Torres, born in Rio de Janeiro on October 16, 1929. An actress and a writer, she was the first Latin American ...

T wenty-seven years after Fernanda Montenegro made Oscar history as the first Brazilian actress ... I’m Still Here is primarily set in Rio de Janeiro between December 1970 and the summer of ...

The daughter of renowned actress Fernanda Montenegro and actor-producer-director Fernando Torres, she too grew up in an artistic environment in Rio de Janeiro during the dictatorship.

HOLD FOR 10 AM EST, SUNDAY MARCH 2 Brazil's Carnival muse this year isn't one of the divas or drum queens parading with the Rio de Janeiro samba schools. It's Fernanda Torres, who's competing for ...

CENTRAL STATION, Vinícius de Oliveira, Fernanda Montenegro, Marília Pêra, 1998, (c)Sony Pictures HOUSE OF SAND, (aka CASA DE AREIA), Fernanda Montenegro, 2005, (c) Sony Pictures Classics ...

The film is based on a true story set in 1970s Rio de Janeiro, when Brazil was living under a military dictatorship. Actress Fernanda Torres was also nominated for an Oscar for her leading role as ...