Fernanda Torres

Acting

Fernanda Torres

Born 1965-09-14 · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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)".

Acting credits

I'm Still Here poster
7.9

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.

I'm Still Here

2024

Critic poster
7.9

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.

Critic

2008

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NR

A comedy about a couple of real estate agents.

The Brokers

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9.5

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

Amenic - Entre o Discurso e a Prática

1984

Miramar poster
6.2

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

Miramar

1997

Cuddle poster
NR

Dante is a professional cuddler who offers platonic comfort to strangers craving connection. His clients range from the overwhelmed to the emotionally fragile, people searching for human touch in a world where affection has become rare and transactional. Behind his calm exterior, Dante struggles with a painkiller habit and a lonely existence, softened only by the quiet company of his dog. But when a surprising encounter disrupts his routine, it opens the door to a fragile and unexpected kind of intimacy.

Cuddle

Four Days in September poster
7.5

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.

Four Days in September

1997

One Man’s War poster
7.2

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.

One Man’s War

1991

Your Neighbour's Wife poster
5.2

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.

Your Neighbour's Wife

1988

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10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Madame Cartô

1985

Basic Sanitation, the Movie poster
7.2

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.

Basic Sanitation, the Movie

2007

Innocence poster
5.2

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.

Innocence

1983

The Magnificent 8 poster
8.0

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.

The Magnificent 8

2017

Kuarup poster
4.6

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.

Kuarup

1989

Babenco: Tell Me When I Die poster
7.1

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.

Babenco: Tell Me When I Die

2020

The House of Sand poster
6.7

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.

The House of Sand

2005

Hide and Seek poster
10.0

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..

Hide and Seek

1988

Foreign Land poster
7.2

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.

Foreign Land

1996

Asdrúbal Trouxe o Trombone poster
6.1

No synopsis available yet.

Asdrúbal Trouxe o Trombone

2017

Treason poster
6.5

Three stories of infidelity unfold: a man falls for a married woman, a young girl draws the gaze of her sister’s fiancé, and a husband takes his unfaithful wife hostage after discovering her affair with his best friend.

Treason

1999

Love Me Forever or Never poster
6.8

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

Love Me Forever or Never

1986

The Invisible Woman poster
6.1

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!

The Invisible Woman

2009

Fire and Passion poster
8.7

A bus tour to São Paulo’s touristic spots bumps into several strange people.

Fire and Passion

1989

Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvelous Entanglement poster
8.5

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).

Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvelous Entanglement

2019

Behind the camera

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NR

A comedy about a couple of real estate agents.

The Brokers

O Juízo poster
7.1

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.

O Juízo

2019

Treason poster
6.5

Three stories of infidelity unfold: a man falls for a married woman, a young girl draws the gaze of her sister’s fiancé, and a husband takes his unfaithful wife hostage after discovering her affair with his best friend.

Treason

1999

Redeemer poster
7.0

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.

Redeemer

2004

Com Licença, Eu Vou à Luta poster
5.6

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.

Com Licença, Eu Vou à Luta

1985

Gilda, Lúcia and The Goat poster
6.6

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.

Gilda, Lúcia and The Goat

2020

Savage Capitalism poster
5.1

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.

Savage Capitalism

1994