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)".

Works

Baila Comigo

Release Date1981-03-16

Charactersd Fauna França

Episode Count165

Vote Count2

Selva de Pedra

Release Date1986-02-24

Charactersd Simone Marques / Rosana Reis

Episode Count155

Vote Count4

Under Pressure

Inside a chaotic emergency room in Rio de Janeiro, a team of doctors are torn between their internal personal conflicts, the difficulties of the profession and the surprising dramas behind each patient‘s history, in a heroic attempt to save lives...See more

Release Date2017-07-25

Charactersd Dra. Renata

Episode Count11

Vote Count16

Brava Gente

Brava Gente was a television series aired by TV Globo in Brazil between 2000 and 2003, initially as a special year-end. The program was adapted from stories and national stories, and plays by famous playwrights, screenwriters and signed by a number represented by several actors and actresses. The genres of the stories varied each week with the style of each director or author. Brava Gente in the stories ranged from comedies and dramas. In all 53 episodes were shown, broadcast on Tuesday nights.

Release Date2000-12-26

Charactersd Jaci

Episode Count1

Vote Count3

Casseta & Planeta, Urgente!

Casseta & Planeta is a Brazilian group of comedians who run a TV show named Casseta & Planeta Urgente, broadcast by Rede Globo. The humour featured on the show is mostly satirical, relating to religious or ethical groups, and minorities. The group founded a company called Toviassu Produções Artísticas, whose name is an acronym composed of syllables from the phrase "Todo viado é surdo" – "Every gay is deaf"; which is the ending of a widely known Brazilian practical joke. Each one of the seven members has a specific function within the company. They present their TV show at Rede Globo and publish a website and many books, among other products, for example the "Machobol". Originally a magazine named Casseta Popular and a humour newspaper called O Planeta Diário, the two teams joined forces and were hired by Rede Globo to become writers for the network's comedy shows, starting with TV Pirata in 1988. A few years later, they starred in their own show.

Release Date1992-04-28

Charactersd Fernanda Montenegro

Episode Count1

Vote Count7

Filhos da Pátria

Release Date2017-09-19

Charactersd Maria Teresa Bulhosa

Episode Count22

Vote Count2

All the Women in the World

In this contemporary romantic comedy about love in all its forms, All the Women in the World tells the story of Paulo, a bohemian dreamer that lives his relationships intensively, falling deeply for all the women he meets. Never able to forget Maria Alice, his greatest love, he counts on the advice of his two best friends to face the emotions of his accomplishments and breakups.

Release Date2020-04-25

Charactersd Estela

Episode Count12

Vote Count12

The End

‘The End’ chronicles the passing of time in friendships and romances. The story is told through the memories of five friends who have partaken of the pleasures of youth in Rio de Janeiro, from the glamorous 1960s to the colorful 1980s. The five get together at the funeral of the most beloved of them, in the early 1990s. Adapted from the best-selling novel by award-winning actress and writer Fernanda Torres. The author herself has adapted the novel for television, diving into profound issues, such as aging and death. Always with Torres’ own celebrated brand of elegant, witty humor. The cast features a number of award-winning, household Brazilian actors.

Release Date2023-10-25

DepartmentWriting

JobBook

Charactersd Celeste

Episode Count10

Vote Count7

Os Normais

Rui and Vani, are a couple facing normal discussions, problems and situations such as infidelity and convivency problems, but they solve it with great humor.

Release Date2001-06-01

Charactersd Vanilce Alencar (Vani)

Episode Count71

Vote Count32

Amor e Sorte

‘Amor e Sorte’ is a four-episode independent series that brings together stories about relationships and transformation in times of social isolation.

Release Date2020-09-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Lúcia

Episode Count4

Vote Count7

I'm Still Here

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 family after a violent and arbitrary act.

Release Date2024-09-19

Charactersd Eunice Paiva

Vote Count730

Minha Estupidez

Minha Estupidez

In each episode, Fernanda Torres conducts an interview with an intellectual whom she admires and presents a fiction skit about an intriguing text - those that makes one feel stupid.

Release Date2016-11-14

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd

Episode Count5

As Cariocas

"The Cariocas", a series in ten stand-alone episodes, tells the story of ten modern-day women against the beautiful backdrop of Rio de Janeiro and its stunning urban landscapes. Our protagonists are uninhibited, adulterous, vindictive, suicidal, envious, brides, betrayed, deluded. Women with distinct beauty and quaint peculiarities, each one has a particular way of life.

Release Date2010-10-19

Charactersd Cris

Episode Count10

Vote Count8

Tapas & Beijos

The daily life of two friends, Sueli and Fátima, whom despite being independent and single women, always feel smothered.

Release Date2011-04-05

Charactersd Fátima

Episode Count169

Vote Count15

Luna Caliente

Ramiro is a 40-year-old lawyer and university professor who returns to Brazil after eight years of exile in France as a result of the military dictatorship. Recently separated from Dora, he meets Elisa, the youngest daughter of a couple of friends of his parents, who will turn his life upside down.

Release Date1999-12-15

Charactersd Dora

Episode Count3

Vote Count2

Parabéns pra Você

Parabéns pra Você

Release Date1983-02-16

Charactersd Irene

Episode Count13

Diário de um Confinado

Staying at home has become a form of survival in times of pandemic and the days seem to repeat itself. Now Murilo tries not to go crazy by touching life from the inside of the house.

Release Date2020-06-26

Charactersd Leonor

Episode Count19

Vote Count5

Eu Prometo

Release Date1983-09-19

Charactersd Daisy

Episode Count110

Vote Count2

Brilhante

Release Date1981-09-28

Charactersd Marília Newmann Carvalho

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Basic Sanitation, the Movie

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 sci-fi joint about a monster who lives in the building site of a septic tank.

Release Date2007-07-20

Charactersd Marina

Vote Count109

So Normal 2: The Craziest Night Ever

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 with a threesome and they decide to invite Vani's cousin Silvinha to participate late night, but an accident interrupts their game. Rui and Vani unsuccessfully spend the night searching for for companion of a bisexual woman.

Release Date2009-08-28

Charactersd Vani

Vote Count70

Four Days in September

Fernando, a journalist, and his friend César join terrorist group MR8 in order to fight Brazilian dictatorial regime during the late sixties. César, however, is wounded and captured during a bank hold up. Fernando then decides to kidnap the American ambassador in Brazil and ask for the release of fifteen political prisoners in exchange for his life.

Release Date1997-10-01

Charactersd Maria

Vote Count122

Babenco: Tell Me When I Die

Besieged by cancer and nearing the end, the genius Argentine-Brazilian filmmaker Héctor Babenco (1946-2016) asks Bárbara Paz, his wife, for one last wish: to be the protagonist of his own death.

Release Date2020-11-26

Charactersd Banquet Attendee

Vote Count15

The Invisible Woman

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!

Release Date2009-06-05

Charactersd Lúcia

Vote Count258

Com Licença, Eu Vou à Luta

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 learning of the relationship, Eliane's parents forbid her to meet her lover.

Release Date1985-11-30

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Eliane

Vote Count7

Foreign Land

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 ring.

Release Date1996-09-04

Charactersd Alex

Vote Count53

One Man’s War

Anthony Hopkins plays an English medical doctor living with his family in Paraguay and treating the poor people from the surroundings, who has his life turned upside down when his son was mysteriously murdered in what could have been an attack to him since he's opposed to the military dictatorship of the country. The doctor and his family will take lots of risk while trying to prove that the government was involved in the murder.

Release Date1991-04-20

Charactersd Dolly

Vote Count4

Twins

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 rivalry with devastating and horrifying consequences begins.

Release Date1999-04-30

DepartmentProduction

JobAssociate Producer

Charactersd Iara / Marilene

Vote Count8

The House of Sand

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 life hopelessly trying to escape it.

Release Date2005-05-13

Charactersd Áurea (1910-1919) / Maria (1942)

Vote Count51

Love Me Forever or Never

Young and recently separated couple meet in a modern house and start discussing their past relationship.

Release Date1986-04-17

Charactersd Her

Vote Count22

Redeemer

Célio Rocha believes he was assigned by God Himself a difficult mission: to persuade his childhood friend Otávio Sabóia, a corrupt entrepeneur in the construction business, to give away all his possessions to the poor.

Release Date2004-09-10

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Charactersd Isaura (jovem)

Vote Count24

Slaps & Kisses: The Great Reunion

In the special episode of Tapas & Beijos, titled "The Great Reunion", Sueli and Fátima come together five years after the series ended. They navigate new challenges and humorous situations, showcasing their characteristic friendship and irreverent humor. The episode serves as a nostalgic farewell, celebrating the best moments of their chaotic lives while addressing relatable issues.

Release Date2020-10-31

Charactersd Fátima

Vote Count1

That Damned Meat

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 wedding her father will kill him an ox. But, before that, Nhô Quim must pass a series of tests.

Release Date1987-10-01

Charactersd Carula

Vote Count16

Os Normais: O Filme

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 Marta in the same church, following Vani's marriage. While waiting for the ceremony, they begin to talk. Complications ensue.

Release Date2003-10-24

Charactersd Vani

Vote Count143

Innocence

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 forbidden romance from her father, who disapproves of the relationship.

Release Date1983-09-16

Charactersd Inocência

Vote Count9

The Jew

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 by converting himself to Catholicism, after being tortured. But his fierce criticism of Portugal's élite led him to persecution and torture, becoming kind of a scapegoat.

Release Date1996-01-16

Charactersd Brites

Vote Count4

Betrayal

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 and her brother-in-law is shown; and in the episode "Cachorro!", a man sees his wife with her lover.

Release Date1999-02-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Irene

Vote Count6

Midnight

On December 31st 1999, destiny brings a fugitive prisoner and a depressed middle class teacher together, as the new millennium approaches bringing hope to everyone.

Release Date1998-08-12

Charactersd Maria

Vote Count10

Gilda, Lúcia and The Goat

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 social isolation, they face a new reality.

Release Date2020-12-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Lúcia

Vote Count4

Endless June - Brazil’s New Political Culture

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.

Release Date2019-10-22

Charactersd Narrator

Vote Count2

Hide and Seek

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, and terrible sights hide behind every door..

Release Date1988-01-01

Charactersd Magda

Kiss 2348/72

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 hardships of the labor lawsuit he filed against the company.

Release Date1990-10-01

Charactersd Claudete

Vote Count6

Kuarup

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 priest Nando. Fed up with civilization, he ventures deep into Amazon country to live with and work among the Xingu Indians.

Release Date1989-06-02

Charactersd Francisca

Vote Count9

Savage Capitalism

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 story about the company. However, the relationship between the two begins to destabilize when the company that Hugo runs begins to extract gold from indigenous lands.

Release Date1994-02-01

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd Elisa Medeiros

Vote Count4

Fogo e Paixão

The story of citizens from different parts of the world who come together to participate in a project to visit a Latin American city, however its location is not revealed.

Release Date1989-04-29

Charactersd mulher comendo uma maçã

Vote Count2

Fire in the Forest

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, Brazil. It also reveals how the indigenous community keeps its traditional culture while incorporating habits and technologies from the “white”.

Release Date2019-10-17

Charactersd Narradora

Your Neighbour's Wife

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 reunite, only to break again - this time for good.

Release Date1988-12-01

Charactersd Isabel

Vote Count6

Os Corretores

A comedy about a couple of real estate agents.

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd

Madame Cartô

Release Date1985-01-01

Charactersd Voz

Golden Globe Awards

An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign, bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Release Date1944-01-20

Charactersd Self - Nominee

Episode Count1

Vote Count17

Que História é Essa, Porchat?

Release Date2019-08-06

Charactersd Self

Episode Count2

Vote Count8

The Oscars

An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.

Release Date1953-03-19

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count72

Critic

Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States and Europe, based on his experience as a critic.

Release Date2008-01-22

Charactersd Self

Vote Count19

The Magnificent 8

On a Sunday, the actors Maria Ribeiro, Fernanda Torres, Wagner Moura, Carolina Dieckmann, Sophie Charlotte, Mateus Solano, Alexandre Nero and Du Moscovis have lunch at one of their houses. The occasion gives way to an incredibly sincere debate on the art of acting, the profession and, above all, the doubts about love and life.

Release Date2017-10-09

Charactersd Self

Vote Count5

Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional

"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."

Release Date1997-01-01

Charactersd Self

Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century

Two years of research and visits to collections, cinematheques and museums; almost seventy interviews that generated 30 hours of recorded material; more than two hundred scanned photos and more than one hundred films watched. In total, more than a thousand hours of work were needed to prepare Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century. The work is a fascinating journey through all the cinematic cycles that Brazil lived, from the pioneering Belle Époque, through the great studios like Atlântica and Cinédia, Cinema Novo, the urban comedies of the 70's, until the resumption in the late 90's. The documentary is unique, it gives the floor to who really wrote and lived this story intensely.

Release Date2017-03-31

Charactersd Self

Domingos

A look into the life and mind of Brazilian playwright and filmmaker Domingos Oliveira through his daily activities and artistic deeds.

Release Date2009-01-01

Charactersd Self

Vote Count1

Tributo: Fernanda Montenegro

Fernanda Montenegro opens the doors of her home and recalls remarkable stories, from more modest productions to the Oscar ceremony, in the company of her daughter, actress Fernanda Torres.

Release Date2024-10-16

Charactersd Self

Vote Count2

Tá Feito com Fernanda Torres

Charactersd Self

The Others

Two neighboring couples are shocked after their teenage children's fight, with absurd consequences. What could be a common misunderstanding grows and reveals the limits and influence of parents in raising children. A modern series about where lack of dialogue can lead people to.

Release Date2023-05-31

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count12

Vote Count24

Party Crashers

"Party Crashers" chronicles the amusing encounter between Marco Polo (Marcelo Adnet), a Copacabana trickster, and Beto (Eduardo Sterblitch), a shy and insecure man, on the New Year's Eve in Rio. Together they crash parties and create a lot of confusion in search of the beautiful Laura.

Release Date2012-11-30

DepartmentWriting

JobOther

Vote Count88

O Juízo

Augusto moves with his family to an abandoned farm, inherited from his grandfather, hoping to put his life back on track. The property, however, carries the karma of the betrayal of the slave Couraça who seeks revenge against Augusto's family.

Release Date2019-12-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count7

Conversa com Bial

Journalist Pedro Bial discusses the most important current news in Brazil and in the rest of the world.

Release Date2017-05-03

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

A Comédia da Vida Privada

Release Date1994-08-03

Episode Count22

Vote Count1

Consideração do Poema

Carlos Drummond de Andrade's poetry is read by exponents of Brazilian culture, such as Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Adriana Calcanhoto, Fernanda Torres, Marilia Pera, Antonio Cicero and others.

Release Date2011-03-03

Vote Count1

Amenic - Entre o Discurso e a Prática

A couple of filmmakers facing difficulties to make a film in the midst of an economic crisis, affecting the relationship between them.

Release Date1984-12-19

Vote Count1

The Flash and Crash Days

“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 to trashy punk clubs and now churches...

Release Date1991-11-09

Vote Count1

Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvelous Entanglement

The multiple screen installation and photographic series A Marvellous Entanglement (2019) traverses a collection of Lina Bo Bardi’s most iconic buildings, offering a meditation on the work and legacy of the visionary modernist architect and designer (1914–1992).

Release Date2020-09-23

Vote Count1

Playing

Following a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which are then re-enacted by actresses, blurring the barriers between truth, fiction and interpretation.

Release Date2007-11-09

Vote Count56

Asdrúbal Trouxe o Trombone

Release Date2017-11-18

Vote Count22

Miramar

Story with some autobiographical touches taken from director's life.

Release Date1997-11-19

Vote Count3

Sonho Sem Fim

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 Revolution. To promote his films, Abelim would even perform car stunts, give classes on the occult and offer guidance on mystical matters.

Release Date1986-12-11

Vote Count3

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