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Maria Fernanda Cândido (born May 21, 1974) is a Brazilian actress, television presenter, and former model.[2]

Maria Fernanda Cândido
Born	(1974-05-21) 21 May 1974 (age 48) Londrina, Paraná, Brazil
Education	St. Louis College
Alma mater	University of São Paulo
Occupation	Actress television presenter
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)[1]
Spouse	Petrit Spahira ​ (m. 2005)​
Children	2

Biography

Maria Fernanda Cândido lived in Curitiba from the age of four to twelve, when she moved to São Paulo with her family. Her parents, José Reginaldo and Agda, were merchants.

Once in São Paulo she was enrolled in the prestigious Colégio São Luiz, in São Paulo, where she proved to be a good student. At 14, she began to career as a professional model after being discovered by one of her neighbours, who was a fashion producer. She modelled for fashion publications, magazine covers and campaigns for famous brands. At age 15, during school summer breaks, she travelled to Paris to work. In total, she spent five years juggling school, fashion shows and photo shoots. After finishing high school, she lived in New York City for six months and, before returning to Brazil, went to the French capital for another season of runway shows. She always caused a good impression on her co-workers due to her punctuality and discipline regarding schedules. More than a year living abroad was enough for her to decide to put an end to her international modelling career.[3]

Back in Brazil, she applied for, and was accepted at USP where she studied Occupational Therapy, and course the full-time programme for three years before dropping out to join MTV working as a VJ hosting the show "Ilha do Biquini" (Bikini Island). After shooting the pilot, unhappy with the outcome, she sought technical improvement in a studio in São Paulo. As a result of that experience, she discovered her talent for on-camera work. She formally withdrew from college to study vocal technique with Fátima Toledo, a famous speech therapist, in order to focus on acting for the cinema.[4]

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.[5] For that job, she hired a dialect coach in order to improve her Italian pronunciation.[6] The role led to her winning the prestigious Troféu Imprensa[7] 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.[8] 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.[9] 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.[10]

In 2003, she debuted as a cinema actress in the movie Dom and won the Kikito Award for Best Actress at the Festival de Gramado.[11]

In 2008, she was chosen to be the face of Orient Watches' new marketing campaign during the first half of the year. Cândido was the star in two campaigns for the launching of the company's then new collection, which were broadcast over the months of April, May and June. The female models of Orient were chosen to reflect major global trends.[12]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role
2003	Dom	Ana
2005	Sal de Prata	Cátia
2010	Aparecida - O Milagre	Beatriz
	A Fronteira de Sangue
2019	The Traitor	Maria Cristina de Almeida Guimarães
2020	The Passion According to G.H.	G.H.
2022	Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore	Vicência Santos[13]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	A Ilha do Biquíni	Herself	VJ
1997	Al Dente	Herself	VJ
	A Indomada	Woman	Opening
1998	Pérola Negra	Manoela	Cameo
	Serras Azuis	Magali
1999	Terra Nostra	Paola
2000	Mundo VIP	Herself	Cameo
	Aquarela do Brasil	Isa Galvão
2002	Esperança	Nina
2003	Os Normais	Fabiana	Episode: Casal Que Vive Brigando Não Tem Crise
2004	Um Só Coração	Ana Schmidt
	Como uma Onda	Lavínia
2007	Paraíso Tropical	Fabiana Sampaio
2008	Capitu	Capitu
2010	Dalva e Herivelto: uma Canção de Amor	Lurdes Torelly
	S.O.S. Emergência	Melissa Kutner	Episode: Nasce uma Estrela
	Afinal, o Que Querem as Mulheres?	Monique
	A Princesa e o Vagabundo	Queen Valentina	Special year-end
2011	Acampamento de Férias 2 - A Arvore da Vida	mother of Lili	Cameo[14]
2012	O Brado Retumbante	Antonia	[15]
	As Brasileiras	Sandra	Episode: A Perseguida de Curitiba[16]
	Sessão de Terapia	Júlia Rebelo
	Saia Justa	Herself	Presenter[17]
	Lado a Lado	Jeanett Dórleac	Cameo[18]
2013	Helen Palmer em Correio Feminino	Helen Palmer	Narrator[19]
2015	Felizes para Sempre?	Marília Drummond[20]
2017	A Força do Querer	Joyce Garcia

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Ref.
1997–98	Anchieta - Our story	Jaquaruna Indigenous	[21]
2000–01	Passion of Christ	Maria	[22]
2001–03	The Gospel According to Jesus Christ	Mary Magdalene	[23]
2006–07	Small Marital Crimes	Lisa	[24]
2010–11	Ligações Perigosas	Marquesa de Merteuil	[25]
2013–14	Rabbit Hole	Becca	[26]
2016	Troilus and Cressida	Cressida	[27]

References

External links

• Maria Fernanda Cândido at IMDb
• Maria Fernanda Cândido on Instagram
• Maria Fernanda Cândido on Twitter

На других языках

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- [en] Maria Fernanda Cândido

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[es] Maria Fernanda Cândido

Maria Fernanda Cândido (Londrina, 21 de mayo de 1974) es una actriz y ex modelo brasileña.[2] Forma parte de la junta directiva de Casa do Saber.

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[ru] Кандиду, Мария Фернанда

Мария Фернанда Кандиду (англ. Maria Fernanda Cândido; род. 21 мая 1974, Лондрина, Бразилия) — бразильская актриса и модель[1].

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