Fernanda Torres

Fernanda Torres

Born: September 14, 1965
in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Fernanda Pinheiro Monteiro Torres (born September 15, 1965) is a Brazilian movie, stage and television actress and writer. She was born in Rio de Janeiro, 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.

Movies for Fernanda Torres...

Title: Fim
Character: Celeste
Released: October 25, 2023
Type: TV
A group of friends who don't believe that life is limited to finding love and being happy forever. A story about life, seen through the eyes of those who have just left it.
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Gilda, Lúcia and The Goat
Title: Gilda, Lúcia and The Goat
Character: Lúcia
Released: December 25, 2020
Type: Movie
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.
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Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
Title: Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
Character: Banquet Attendee
Released: November 26, 2020
Type: Movie
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.
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Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvelous Entanglement
Title: Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvelous Entanglement
Released: September 23, 2020
Type: Movie
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).
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Title: Amor e Sorte
Character: Lúcia
Released: September 8, 2020
Type: TV
‘Amor e Sorte’ is a four-episode independent series that brings together stories about relationships and transformation in times of social isolation.
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Title: Diário de um Confinado
Character: Leonor
Released: June 26, 2020
Type: TV
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.
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Title: All the Women in the World
Character: Estela
Released: April 25, 2020
Type: TV
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.
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Endless June - Brazil’s New Political Culture
Title: Endless June - Brazil’s New Political Culture
Character: Narrator
Released: October 22, 2019
Type: Movie
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.
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Fire in the Forest
Title: Fire in the Forest
Character: Narradora
Released: October 17, 2019
Type: Movie
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”.
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Title: Que História é Essa, Porchat?
Character: Self
Released: August 6, 2019
Type: TV
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Asdrúbal Trouxe o Trombone
Title: Asdrúbal Trouxe o Trombone
Released: November 18, 2017
Type: Movie
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The Magnificent 8
Title: The Magnificent 8
Character: Self
Released: October 9, 2017
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Filhos da Pátria
Character: Maria Teresa Bulhosa
Released: September 19, 2017
Type: TV
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Title: Under Pressure
Character: Dra. Renata
Released: July 25, 2017
Type: TV
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
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Title: Conversa com Bial
Released: May 3, 2017
Type: TV
With decades of experience of reporting and a curious spirit for the history of the other, Pedro Bial presents a wide space to listen, give opinions and multiply opinions.
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Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century
Title: Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century
Character: Self
Released: March 31, 2017
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Tapas & Beijos
Character: Fátima
Released: April 5, 2011
Type: TV
The daily life of two friends, Sueli and Fátima, whom despite being independent and single women, always feel smothered.
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Consideração do Poema
Title: Consideração do Poema
Released: March 3, 2011
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: As Cariocas
Character: Cris
Released: October 19, 2010
Type: TV
"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.
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Os Normais 2
Title: Os Normais 2
Character: Vani
Released: August 28, 2009
Type: Movie
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.
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The Invisible Woman
Title: The Invisible Woman
Character: Lúcia
Released: June 5, 2009
Type: Movie
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!
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Domingos
Title: Domingos
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
A look into the life and mind of Brazilian playwright and filmmaker Domingos Oliveira through his daily activities and artistic deeds.
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Crítico
Title: Crítico
Character: Self
Released: January 22, 2008
Type: Movie
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.
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Playing
Title: Playing
Released: November 9, 2007
Type: Movie
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.
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Basic Sanitation, the Movie
Title: Basic Sanitation, the Movie
Character: Marina
Released: July 20, 2007
Type: 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.
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The House of Sand
Title: The House of Sand
Character: Áurea (1910-1919) / Maria (1942)
Released: May 13, 2005
Type: Movie
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.
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Redeemer
Title: Redeemer
Character: Isaura (jovem)
Released: September 10, 2004
Type: Movie
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.
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Os Normais: O Filme
Title: Os Normais: O Filme
Character: Vani
Released: October 24, 2003
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Os Normais
Character: Vanilce Alencar (Vani)
Released: June 1, 2001
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Luna Caliente
Character: Dora
Released: December 15, 1999
Type: TV
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.
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Twins
Title: Twins
Character: Iara / Marilene
Released: April 30, 1999
Type: Movie
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.
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Betrayal
Title: Betrayal
Character: Irene
Released: February 26, 1999
Type: Movie
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.
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Midnight
Title: Midnight
Character: Maria
Released: August 12, 1998
Type: Movie
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.
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Miramar
Title: Miramar
Released: November 19, 1997
Type: Movie
Story with some autobiographical touches taken from director's life.
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Four Days in September
Title: Four Days in September
Character: Maria
Released: October 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Fernando, a journalist, and his friend César join terrorist group MR8 in order to fight Brazilian dictatorial regime during the late sixties. Cesare, 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.
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Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
Title: Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."
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Foreign Land
Title: Foreign Land
Character: Alex
Released: September 4, 1996
Type: Movie
After the death of his mother, a young Brazilian decides to leave his country and travel to her native land. In a foreign land, he finds love and danger.
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The Jew
Title: The Jew
Released: January 16, 1996
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: A Comédia da Vida Privada
Released: August 3, 1994
Type: TV
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Savage Capitalism
Title: Savage Capitalism
Character: Elisa Medeiros
Released: February 1, 1994
Type: Movie
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.
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The Flash and Crash Days
Title: The Flash and Crash Days
Released: November 9, 1991
Type: Movie
“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...
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One Man’s War
Title: One Man’s War
Character: Dolly
Released: April 20, 1991
Type: Movie
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.
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Kiss 2348/72
Title: Kiss 2348/72
Character: Claudete
Released: October 1, 1990
Type: Movie
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.
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Kuarup
Title: Kuarup
Character: Francisca
Released: June 2, 1989
Type: Movie
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.
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Fogo e Paixão
Title: Fogo e Paixão
Character: mulher comendo uma maçã
Released: April 1, 1989
Type: Movie
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.
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Your Neighbour's Wife
Title: Your Neighbour's Wife
Character: Isabel
Released: December 1, 1988
Type: Movie
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.
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Hide and Seek
Title: Hide and Seek
Character: Magda
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
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..
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A Marvada Carne
Title: A Marvada Carne
Character: Carula
Released: October 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Hillbilly has one single dream in life: eat beef. He finds a little maid who's anxious to marry, and promises him: in their wedding party, her father would kill an ox.
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Sonho Sem Fim
Title: Sonho Sem Fim
Released: December 11, 1986
Type: Movie
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.
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Love Me Forever or Never
Title: Love Me Forever or Never
Released: April 17, 1986
Type: Movie
Young and recently separated couple meet in a modern house and start discussing their past relationship.
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Title: Selva de Pedra
Character: Simone Marques / Rosana Reis
Released: February 24, 1986
Type: TV
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Com Licença, Eu Vou à Luta
Title: Com Licença, Eu Vou à Luta
Released: November 30, 1985
Type: Movie
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.
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Amenic - Entre o Discurso e a Prática
Title: Amenic - Entre o Discurso e a Prática
Released: December 19, 1984
Type: Movie
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Innocence
Title: Innocence
Character: Inocência
Released: September 16, 1983
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Parabéns pra Você
Character: Irene
Released: February 16, 1983
Type: TV
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Title: Brilhante
Character: Marília Newmann Carvalho
Released: September 28, 1981
Type: TV
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Title: Baila Comigo
Character: Fauna França
Released: March 16, 1981
Type: TV
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Ainda Estou Aqui
Title: Ainda Estou Aqui
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
In Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, during the dictatorship, former deputy Rubens Paiva was taken from his home by soldiers to be interrogated. He was never found again. The search for truth lasts 30 long years. And when the answers begin to appear, Eunice Paiva feels the first symptoms of Alzheimer's disease.