- After being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role in 1999 at 69 years old, she turned down every part offered to her in non-Brazilian films.
- Is considered the Great Dame of Brazilian Theatre.
- Is the first Brazilian actress ever to be nominated for an Academy Award
- Appeared in five films that were submitted to the Oscars in the Best Foreign Language Film category: Pecado Mortal (1970), Olga (2004), Hour of the Star (1985) - these three failed to get nominated - and the two consecutive films that managed to get the nomination Four Days in September (1997) and Central Station (1998).
- Refused a Brazil's president invitation to be Minister of Culture in the middle of 80s. She answered she would be more useful to her country's country only acting.
- Second Brazilian actress to be nominated for a Golden Globe award. The first was Sonia Braga for Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) in 1986. Wagner Moura was the third Brazilian actor to receive a Golden Globe nomination for his performance in Narcos (2015) in 2016.
- In 1992 she won the medal of cultural merit from Portugal.
- Fernanda is descendant from Portugueses and Italians.
- There's a theater room named after her in the Leblon Theater in Rio de Janeiro.
- Mother of actress Fernanda Torres and director Cláudio Torres.
- She has two grandsons: Joaquim Torres Waddington and Davi.
- She won at least 10 awards for best actress in movies, novels and theater. This includes 5 Molières Prizes.
- In 1971 she won the medal of Ordem do Cruzeiro do Sul for good services for Brazilian culture.
- Fernanda won Award Contigo! for best actress for her role in the soap "Belíssima" (2006).
- Won Grande Prêmio Cinema Brazil for best actress for her role in "O Outro Lado da Rua". With this role she also won the award for best actress in Tribeca Festival and in Audiovisual Festival.
- She has become an 'immortal' of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. (03/25/2022).
- One of Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022) main settings were Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, so fans created a petition to cast Montenegro as the President of the Magical Congress of Brazil that reached over 100,000 signatures. The actress responded that while she was very thankful she would not have time available to take part in the feature.
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