Fernanda Montenegro

Arlette Pinheiro Esteves Torres ONM, known by her stage name Fernanda Montenegro, is a Brazilian stage, television and film actress. Considered by many 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, and to date the only, Brazilian nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, as well as the first and only actress nominated for an Academy Award for a performance in a Portuguese language film. In addition, she was the first Brazilian to win the International Emmy in the category of Best Actress for her performance in Sweet Mother (2013).

16 October 1929

Born on the same birth day (16 October): Alison Chitty • Charles Dolan • Dan Biggar • Goose Goslin • Günter Grass • John Whittingdale • Leon Sullivan • León Klimovsky • Loreen • Marc Levy • Nicky Adams • Roy McDonough • Tom Tolbert • Valery Klimov (violinist) • William P. Fessenden

Born in the same month (October 1929): Curtis Amy • George Mattos • George Stinney • Herb Levinson • Hillard Elkins • Hubert Aquin • Jean Chapman • John Hollander • Michael Birkett, 2nd Baron Birkett • Robert Westall • Scotty Beckett • Shamsur Rahman (poet) • Yevgeny Primakov