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

(AP Photo/Bruna Prado) An Oscar statuette is displayed on a drum during a pre-Carnival street party paying tribute to Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres, in Rio de Janeiro, Sunday, Feb. 23 ...

House of Sand, (aka Casa de Areia). Director Andrucha Waddington and Fernanda Torres on set in 2005. ©Sony Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection While they’ve kept a low-profile relationship ...

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 ... appears to be a blissful domestic life near the beach in Rio de Janeiro. But this is 1970s Brazil, under a military dictatorship.

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 ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — HOLD FOR 10 AM EST, SUNDAY MARCH 2 Brazil's Carnival muse this year isn't one of the divas or drum queens parading with the Rio de Janeiro samba schools. It's Fernanda Torres ...

But what makes the story all the more interesting is the fact that I'm Still Here stars Fernanda Torres, whose mother, Fernanda Montenegro, headlined Central Station all those years ago.

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's Carnival muse this year isn't one of the divas or drum queens parading with the Rio de Janeiro samba schools. It's Fernanda Torres, who's competing for the best actress ...