Torres didn’t take home the Oscar for best actress, though I’m Still Here significantly won the best international feature film category. On the carpet before the ceremony, she dazzled in an ...

Brazil’s Carnival muse this year isn’t one of the divas or drum queens parading with the Rio de Janeiro samba schools.

Fernanda Torres is following in the footsteps of her beloved mother, Fernanda Montenegro, at the Academy Awards tonight. Nominated for Best Actress, Torres becomes just the second Brazilian ...

And its star, Fernanda Torres, already the winner in the best actress category at the Golden Globes, is also competing for an Oscar. Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown talks with Torres for ...

Este año ha sido imposible no tropezarse con la actriz en las calles, porque millares de personas convirtieron la máscara de Fernanda Torres en el disfraz más usado de este carnaval.

In a heartwarming flourish, Montenegro herself appears, wordlessly yet powerfully, as an older version of Torres’s character during the film’s climax. Fernanda Torres in Walter Salles’s ...

Director Walter Salles credited the woman who inspired the film — Eunice Paiva — and the women who brought her to life, daughter-mother pair Fernanda Torres and Fernanda Montenegro.

Fernanda Torres delivers a remarkable lead performance as Eunice, conveying both strength and vulnerability in the demanding role. It’s no wonder then that she earned an Oscar nomination for ...

It's Fernanda Torres, who's competing for the best actress Oscar on Sunday. The Oscars fall smack in the middle of Carnival, Brazil’s largest celebration, which runs through Tuesday. During the ...

Torres is only the second Brazilian to be nominated for an acting Oscar. The first was her own mother — 95-year-old Fernanda Montenegro, perhaps the only actor more legendary than her daughter ...