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)".

Filmography

• 2025Films to Die For — (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2024I'm Still Here — Eunice Paiva
• The End — Celeste, Book, Screenplay, Creator
• The Others — Writer
• All the Women in the World — Estela
• 2020Babenco: Tell Me When I Die — Banquet Attendee
• Diário de um Confinado — Leonor
• 2020Gilda, Lúcia and The Goat — Lúcia, Writer
• Love and Luck — Lúcia, Writer
• 2019Endless June - Brazil’s New Political Culture — Narrator
• 2019Fire in the Forest — Narradora
• 2019Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvelous Entanglement — Lina Bo Bardi
• 2019O Juízo — Writer
• 2017Asdrúbal Trouxe o Trombone
• Conversa com Bial
• Filhos da Pátria — Maria Teresa Bulhosa
• Under Pressure — Dra. Renata
• Minha Estupidez — Writer, Creator
• 2012Party Crashers — Other
• 2011Consideração do Poema
• Tapas & Beijos — Fátima
• The Cariocas — Cris
• 2009So Normal 2: The Craziest Night Ever — Vani
• 2009The Invisible Woman — Lúcia
• 2007Basic Sanitation, the Movie — Marina
• 2007Playing — Actress
• 2006O Caso Morel — Isménia
• 2005The House of Sand — Áurea (1910-1919) / Maria (1942)
• 2004Redeemer — Isaura (jovem), Story, Screenplay
• 2003Os Normais: O Filme — Vani
• As Filhas da Mãe — Lulu (jovem)
• Os Normais — Vanilce Alencar (Vani)
• Brava Gente — Jaci, Irene, Dagmar
• Luna Caliente — Dora
• 1999Treason — Irene / Dagmar, Writer
• 1999Twins — Iara / Marilena, Associate Producer
• 1998Midnight — Maria
• 1997Four Days in September — Andréia / Maria
• 1997Miramar — Produtora
• 1996Foreign Land — Alex
• 1996The Jew — Brites
• A Comédia da Vida Privada
• 1994Savage Capitalism — Elisa Medeiros, Screenplay, Associate Producer
• Casseta & Planeta, Urgente! — Fernanda Montenegro
• 1991One Man’s War — Dolly
• 1991The Flash and Crash Days
• 1990Kiss 2348/72 — Claudete
• 1989Fire and Passion — Mulher Comendo uma Maçã
• 1989Kuarup — Francisca
• 1988Hide and Seek — Magda
• 1988Your Neighbour's Wife — Isabel
• 1986Love Me Forever or Never — Her
• Selva de Pedra — Simone Marques / Rosana Reis
• 1986Sonho Sem Fim
• 1985Com Licença, Eu Vou à Luta — Eliane, Writer
• 1985Madame Cartô — Voz
• 1985That Damned Meat — Carula
• 1984Amenic - Entre o Discurso e a Prática
• Eu Prometo — Daisy Cantomaia
• 1983Innocence — Inocência
• Parabéns pra Você — Irene
• Brilhante — Marília Newmann Carvalho
• Dance with Me — Fauna França
• Cuddle — Ava
• The Brokers — Vânia, Writer

Appearances as themselves (13)

• 2024Tributo: Fernanda Montenegro — Self
• 2019Blitz, O Filme — Self
• Que História é Essa, Porchat? — Self
• 2017Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century — Self
• 2017The Magnificent 8 — Self
• O País do Cinema — Self
• 2009Domingos — Self
• 2008Critic — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest
• 1997Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional — Self
• The Oscars — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Nominee
• Times of Innocence — Self