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): Brendan Kibble • Carmen Sevilla • Charles Dolan • Crazy Mohan • Gerard Parkes • Jovit Baldivino • Michael Collins (Irish leader) • Michael Forsyth, Baron Forsyth of Drumlean • Richard Titmuss • Sita Ram Goel

Born in the same month (October 1929): Bernard Mayes • Betty Boothroyd • Bill Wirtz • Bonnie Owens • Claude Rouer • Herb Levinson • Kees Fens • Ken Arthurson • Marcel Bozzuffi • Neal Matthews Jr. • Olga Zubarry • Peter Bronfman • Robert Westall • Ursula K. Le Guin • Violeta Chamorro • William Orchard (water polo)