Fernanda Montenegro

Arlette Pinheiro Esteves Torres (born October 16, 1929) is a Brazilian actress. She is best known for her leading role in Central Station, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.Fernanda Montenegro (Brazilian actress), Encylcopaedia Britannica Online. Retrieved 22 January 2013. She is the first Brazilian to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, as well as the first actress nominated for an Academy Award for a performance in a Portuguese language movie. Her daughter, Fernanda Torres was also nominated in 2025. 

Fernanda Montenegro was born as Arlette Pinheiro Esteves da Silva in Rio de Janeiro. She was the daughter of Vitório Esteves da Silva, a mechanic of Portuguese origin, and Carmen Nieddu Pinheiro Esteves da Silva, a housewife. Her family is from the Italian island of Sardinia.Fernanda Montenegro – Site Oficial – Universo Online

In 2013, she was voted the 15th most influential celebrity in Brazil by Forbes magazine. During the Opening Ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics, Fernanda read the poem "A Flor e a Náusea" by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, dubbed in English by Judi Dench.

On 4 November 2021, she was elected to occupy the Chair number 17 at the Brazilian Academy of Letters.

In November 2024, she was recognised by Guinness World Records for achieving the biggest audience in a Philosophy lecture, with over 15,000 people attending an event on 18 August 2024 at the Ibirapuera Park, where Montenegro read La Cérémonie des Adieux by Simone de Beauvoir.

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