Fernanda Montenegro
Fernanda Montenegro is an actor, born 1929.
Arlette Pinheiro Monteiro Torres, known by her stage name Fernanda Montenegro, is a Brazilian actress. Considered by many as the greatest Brazilian actress of all time, she is often referred to as the grande dame of Brazilian theater, cinema, and performing arts. For her work in Central Station (1998), she became the first Brazilian and first Latin American to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, as well as the first actress nominated for an Academy Award for a performance in a Portuguese language film. Her daughter, actress Fernanda Torres, was also nominated in 2025…
Movies (14)
- A Dog's Will (2000)
- Old Bandits (2026)
- I'm Still Here (2024)
- A Primeira Missa ou Tristes Tropeços, Enganos e Urucum (2014)
- Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)
- Central Station (1998)
- Vitória (2025)
- Babenco: Tell Me When I Die (2020)
- Hour of the Star (1986)
- Rio, I Love You (2014)
- Good Luck (2014)
- Invisible Life (2019)
- Four Days in September (1997)
- Olga (2004)
TV (21)
- Passione (2010)
- Jequitibá (1993)
- A Muralha (1968)
- Redenção (1966)
- Brava Gente (2000)
- Zazá (1997)
- Ambitious Women (2015)
- Guerra dos Sexos (1983)
- Dance with Me (1981)
- Sangue do Meu Sangue (1969)
- O Dono do Mundo (1991)
- Belíssima (2005)
- Cambalacho (1986)
- O Mapa da Mina (1993)
- Dez Vidas (1969)
- Cara a Cara (1979)
- The Brazilians (2012)
- As Filhas da Mãe (2001)
- Os Estranhos (1969)
- Saramandaia (2013)
- Brilhante (1981)