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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 fo…
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entertainment · Brazilian actress (born 1929) · television actor · film actor · actor · also Fernanda Montenegro, Arlette Pinheiro Esteves Silva, Montenegro
Born 16 October 1929 · Q335455
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This movie won the Academy award for Best International Feature Film, becoming the first-ever Brazilian produced film to win an Academy Award and also the first ever Brazilian nominee to win an Academy Award in any of th
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Her own daughter, Fernanda Torres, accomplished that feat being the second Brazilian person to be nominated for Best Actress at the Academy Awards for the movie I'm Still Here (2024) (also directed by Central Station dir
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At 95 years old, Montenegro entered the Guinness World Record for the largest audience during a philosophical reading for her stage reading of French writer and feminist activist Simone de Beauvoir's autobiography La Cér
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Montenegro and her daughter Fernanda Torres portrayed Eunice Paiva at different stages of her life in the acclaimed film I'm Still Here, directed by Walter Salles, who also directed Montenegro in Central Station
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And the series was awarded Best Comedy at the 43rd International Emmy Awards Gala
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Was voted the 15th most influential celebrity in Brazil by Forbes magazine
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Awarded International Emmy Award for Best Actress for Doce de Mãe (2013).
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At age 85 years, Montenegro returns to television in the remake of Saramandaia
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Montenegro starred in the short film A Dama do Estácio directed by Edward Ades and in 2013 participated in the film cast Time and the Wind an adaptation of the novel by Erico Verissimo with Thiago Lacerda, Marjorie Estia
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Montenegro starred in the latest episode of the miniseries As Brasileiras as an actress without much talent named Mary Torres
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Starred in the telenovela Passione, where she played Beth Gouveia
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Taking a supporting role, as Dona Iraci, in the critically and publicly acclaimed primetime mini-Series Queridos Amigos, based on the book "Aos Amigos", by Portuguese novelist Maria Adelaide Amaral, an ensemble piece tha
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In the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, an Honorary Award, as a Latin American Character of the Culture
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Montenegro played Tránsito Ariza, in Love in the Time of Cholera, an adaptation of the novel by the winner of the Nobel Prize of Literature, Gabriel García Marquez
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Montenegro directly addressed the Brazilian Senate, strongly criticizing the legislation and famously asserting "Culture is, above all, a social need
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“Culture is, above all, a social need. It is not a frivolity.”
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Awarded Grande Prêmio do Cinema Brasileiro for Best Actress for The Other Side of the Street (2005).
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Montenegro's film career was once again in full force
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Montenegro once again landed a supporting role, playing Leocádia Prestes, mother of Brazilian communist leader Luiz Carlos Prestes, and mother-in-law of Jewish-German socialist revolutionary Olga Benário in the biopic Ol
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Another attempt was made in telenovela comedy with As Filhas da Mãe, which covered the backstage of Brazilian Fashion Industry
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The celebrated television mini-series "O Auto da Compadecida", in which Montenegro appeared as the Holy Mary, was re-cut into a film of same title (internationally known as A Dog's Will) and released to movie theaters to
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Won: – Grã-Cruz da Ordem Nacional do Mérito (1999).
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Her country's highest civilian honor, the National Order of Merit, "in recognition of her outstanding work in the Brazilian performing arts," delivered by then-president Fernando Henrique Cardoso
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“In Brazil, I have a career. In America, I have an accent.”
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Awarded National Board of Review Award for Best Actress for Central Station (1998).
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Awarded Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress for Central Station (1998).
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Earned Silver Bear for Best Actress for Central Station (1998).
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Montenegro starred in Central do Brasil (internationally known as Central Station), as Dora, her most internationally famous and prestigious role
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To a small appearance in O Que é Isso, Companheiro
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Montenegro's string of critical and audience triumphs came to an abrupt halt as her portrayal of the lead role in the telenovela Zazá, a much anticipated return to comedy, couldn't live up to either reviewers' or the vie
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Awarded Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil) (1995).
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Emerging in a segment titled "Samba do Grande Amor" of the film Veja Esta Canção (internationally known as Rio's Love Song), which garnered its director Carlos Diegues a Best Director Award in the Havana Film Festival
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Montenegro starred as Romana in Eles Não Usam Black-Tie (internationally known as They Don't Wear Black Tie), based on a play by the late Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, who was also her co-star in the movie
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Starred as Elvira Barata, opposite Paulo Gracindo, in Arnaldo Jabor's Tudo Bem (internationally known as Everything's Alright)
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As Zulmira, in the movie A Falecida (internationally known as The Death and released in the U
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Took her first role in a telenovela Pouco Amor Não é Amor
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With A Muralha on RecordTV, where she appeared in other productions as well
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Where she starred in teletheater shows under the direction of Fernando Torres, Sérgio Britto, Ítalo Rossi, and Flávio Rangel
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Became a TV pioneer in Brazil, working for Rio de Janeiro's TV Tupi – the second TV station of South America
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Born 1929-10-16.
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