What is Fernanda Montenegro?
{{Infobox person | image = Fernanda Montenegro2019.jpg | alt = | imagesize = | honorific_suffix = [[National Order of Merit (Brazil)|ONM]] | caption = Montenegro in 2019 | birthname = Arlette Pinheiro Esteves da Silva | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1929|10|16|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Campinho, Rio de Janeiro|Campinho]], [[Rio de Janeiro]], [[Brazil]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.uai.com.br/amp/entretenimento/famosos/2023/10/16/not-famosos,331633/10-curiosidades-que-talvez-voce-nao-saiba-sobre-fernanda-montenegro.shtml|title=10 Curiosidades que talvez você não saiba sobre Fernanda Montenegro|website=Portal Uai|date=2023-10-16|access-date=2024-09-30|language=pt-br}}</ref> | othername = | occupation = Actress | yearsactive = 1950–present | spouse = {{marriage|[[Fernando Torres (actor)|Fernando Torres]]<br/>|1953|2008|end=d.}} | children = [[:pt:Cláudio Torres (cineasta)|Cláudio Torres]]<br/>[[Fernanda Torres]] | website = {{Official website|http://www2.uol.com.br/fernandamontenegro/}} | education = [[Colégio Pedro II|Pedro II School]] | alma_mater = [[Berlitz Corporation]] }} [[File:BR RJANRIO PH 0 FOT 34783 020.tif|right|thumb|Fernanda Montenegro, 1967.]] '''Arlette Pinheiro Esteves Torres''' (born October 16, 1929) is a Brazilian [[actress]]. She is best known for her leading role in ''[[Central Station (movie)|Central Station]]'', for which she was nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Actress]].<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/390738/Fernanda-Montenegro Fernanda Montenegro (Brazilian actress)], ''Encylcopaedia Britannica'' Online. Retrieved 22 January 2013.</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web