Oscar nominee Fernanda Torres has issued an apology for wearing blackface in a comedy sketch 17 years ago. The "I'm Still Here" star, 59, in a statement to Deadline on Sunday acknowledged that ...

“Fernanda Torres doing Black face was not on my Oscar’s bingo card. This award season has truly been a hot mess,” said another user. Torres was recently nominated for the Academy Award for ...

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It was "important for me to address this swiftly to avoid further pain and confusion," said Torres in a statement to Deadline Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated from ...

A nearly-two decades old clip of Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres in blackface has resurfaced days after she was nominated for her first Academy Award. The “I’m Still Here” star issued an ...

History and statistics are not on Torres’ side. Since the SAG Awards’ inception in 1995, only three actors have won an Oscar without at least receiving a SAG nomination: Marcia Gay Harden for ...

Fernanda Torres has apologized after a 2008 clip of her in blackface resurfaced ahead of the 97th Academy Awards. The I’m Still Here star, 59, who received an Academy Award nomination in the Best ...

Torres is only the second Brazilian actress to receive an Oscar nomination. The first was her mother, Fernanda Montenegro, who was nominated in 1999 for Central Station, also directed by Salles.

Torres, who is up for the lead actress Oscar at this year’s ceremony, wrote, “Almost twenty years ago, I appeared in blackface in a comedy sketch from a Brazilian TV show.” “I am very sorry for this.

Fernanda Torres has apologised for wearing Blackface in a decades-old comedy sketch that resurfaced following her first-time Oscar nomination for her performance in Walter Salles’ I’m Still Here. The ...

A nearly-two decades old clip of Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres in blackface has resurfaced days after she was nominated for her first Academy Award. The “I’m Still Here” star issued an apology ...