Biography
Maria Fernanda Cândido is a Brazilian actress, television presenter, and former model.
Real success came in 1999. After sending a videobook to TV director Jayme Monjardim, of Rede Globo, she was invited to audition and soon joined the cast of Terra Nostra soap-opera in the role of an Italian young woman, Paola. For that job, she hired a dialect coach in order to improve her Italian pronunciation. The role led to her winning the prestigious Troféu Imprensa and in 2000 she was voted the most beautiful woman of the century in a poll conducted by Fantástico a Sunday evening TV show. At the time, she was compared to the young Sophia Loren, the Italian legend, paralleling the latter's beauty and talent. Like her character in the soap-opera, Cândido's great-grandmother, arrived in Brazil around 1880. The actress is a descendant of the Bortolacci and Malvezi families on her mother's side and the Guiraldelli on her father's side, both coming from Venice, northern Italy. "The funny thing is that I go by the Cândido family name, highlighting the only part of my heritage that is actually Brazilian," she stresses. Another coincidence between her own family's history and the soap-opera, is that her family settled in the same area where the plot was set, the Oeste Paulista, the western region of the State of São Paulo. The character is also the daughter of Italian Anacleto, who works on a coffee farm, the same occupation of her great-grandparents when they arrived in Brazil. As part of her research to play Paola, she watched films such as Bicycle Thieves, Marriage Italian-Style and The Gold of Naples, and to better understand the context in which her character would have lived, she also watched 1900, Bernardo Bertolucci.
Filmography
all 36
TV Shows 19
Movies 17
A Paixão Segundo G.H. (2024)
Renascer (2024)
A Bunch of Bastards (2023)
The Book of Wonders (2023)
Vermelho Monet (2022)
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)
The Uncertain Place of Desire (2019)
Brasil de Imigrantes (2019)
The Traitor (2019)
Bio (2017)
Edge of Desire (2017)
Fé nas Marias (2016)
My Hindu Friend (2015)
O Amuleto (2015)
Happily Ever After? (2015)
Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: Dalva e Herivelto, Uma Canção de Amor - O Filme (2015)
Apneia (2014)
Sessão de Terapia (2012)
Side by Side (2012)
Irina (2012)
As Brasileiras (2012)
O Brado Retumbante (2012)
Aparecida - O Milagre (2010)
Afinal, o que Querem as Mulheres? (2010)
Dalva e Herivelto: Uma Canção de Amor (2010)
Capitu (2008)
Sal de Prata (2005)
Como uma Onda (2004)
Um Só Coração (2004)
Dom (2003)
Esperança (2002)
Saia Justa (2002)
Aquarela do Brasil (2000)
Terra Nostra (1999)
Pérola Negra (1998)
Serras Azuis (1998)
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GenderFemale
Birthday1974-05-21 (49 years old)
Birth NameMaria Fernanda Cândido
Birth PlaceLondrina, Brazil
CitizenshipsBrazil
Also Known AsМария Фернанда Кандиду
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