Fernanda Machado(II)
- Actress
Fernanda Machado is a Brazilian film, television, and stage actress.
Fernanda was born in the south of Brazil where she began her career in
the theatre at the age of 14. She left her hometown at 17 to attend a
performing arts college and was soon invited to audition for her first
soap opera of TV Globo. She succeeded and was quickly noticed by the
most important film and television directors in Brazil. In 2007 she
played the leading female in "Elite Squad" which became one of the most
famous and popular movies in Brazil, directed by Jose Padilha and
produced by Harvey Weinstein. "Elite Squad" won best picture at the
Berlin Film Festival in 2008. Since then she has continued in theatre
with plays like "The Lie of the Mind" (a Sam Shepard Play), and thrived
on television in popular soap operas like "Paraiso Tropical" in which
she won best supporting actress in Brazil. Fernanda completed her first
American movie "The Brazilian" in August 2012.
