Christiane Torloni
Torloni in 2022
Born	Christiane Maria dos Santos Torloni (1957-02-18)18 February 1957 (age 68) São Paulo, Brazil
Other names	La Torloni
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1969, 1975–present
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Spouses	Dennis Carvalho ​ ​ (m. 1977; div. 1980)​ Eduardo Mascarenhas ​ ​ (m. 1981; div. 1986)​
Children	2 (1 deceased)

Christiane Maria dos Santos Torloni (born 18 February 1957) is aBrazilianactress. She is the winner of numerous awards, including anAPCA Award, two Prêmios Qualidade Brasil, and a Shell Award, as well as receiving nominations for a Grande Otelo and threeTroféu Imprensas.^[1] She is one of the most renowned actresses in Brazilian television drama.^[2]

Born and raised inSão Paulo, Torloni studied theater at IBAM. Since her childhood, she had already decided to be an actress. As a child, she acted as a princess at Teatrinho Trol, onRede Tupi. But it was at the age of 18 that she actually began his professional career in an episode of Caso Especial, onTV Globo. In 1976 she made her first soap opera,Duas Vidas, and two years later she was already starring in the soap opera Gina.^[3] Since then, she has joined the cast of several television productions.

Acting as Jô Penteado in the romantic comedy A Gata Comeu (1985) and the villain Fernanda in the dramaSelva de Pedra (1986), Christiane achieved great recognition for her versatility and reached the height of her fame.^[4] She was nominated for theTroféu Imprensa her performance in the soap operaA Viagem (1994), one of her most memorable works as the genial Diná. She repeated this feat the following year for her work inCara & Coroa (1995), playing the lookalikes Fernanda and Vivi.

In 2002, she won theAPCA Award for BestActress onTelevision forUm Anjo Caiu do Céu.^[5] In 2003, she returned to prominence on television playing one ofManoel Carlos' Helenas, inMulheres Apaixonadas, one of the most successful soap operas of the 2000s.^[6] In 2011, she played the memorable villain Tereza Cristina inFina Estampa, a character that is constantly remembered as one of the greatest of her career.^[7] For this work, she received his third nomination for theTroféu Imprensa.^[8]

Since the age of 6, she had been playing role-play and at the age of 12 I was playing a little princess at Teatrinho Trol, onRede Tupi. But the decision to become an actress happened in 1975, when Torloni took a theater course directed by Jaime Barcelos at IBAM. In the same year, at 18, she began her career onRede Globo's Caso Especial "Indulto de Natal".^[9] She is ofSpanish,Italian andindigenous descent.^[10]

Among the many characters played on television, there are the notable Jô Penteado, from A Gata Comeu (1985), Fernanda Arruda Campos^[11] fromSelva de Pedra, (1986), Diná fromA Viagem (1994) and the twins Fernanda and Vivi fromCara & Coroa (1995), in addition to the villain Tereza Cristina inFina Estampa. In 1981, Christiane Torloni was the daughter of the first Helena created byManoel Carlos in the soap operaBaila Comigo, played byLílian Lemmertz. Twenty-two years later, the actress played one of the author's Helenas inMulheres Apaixonadas (2003). She also had relevant characters in plots such as Gina,Chega Mais,Elas por Elas,Kananga do Japan,Um Anjo Caiu do Céu,América,Caminho das Indias,Ti Ti Ti, among others. She posed nude forPlayboy magazine in March 1983 and November 1984, having also previously posed for Status in February 1980.

In the theater she subsequently worked with director José Possi Neto in a series of shows in which she sought bodily expressiveness.

^[12] La Torloni, as she is sometimes called, has always been a very committed artist, with historic participation in events such asDiretas Já,^[13] the fight fordemocracy and the end of theMilitary Regime; She has already made harsh criticisms of former president Lula, declaring himself against re-election in the executive branch.

The actress is involved in various social and environmental causes, which she personally leads. Among the relevant causes are the petition, published on the website amazoniaparasempre.com.br,^[14] for the preservation of the Brazilian Amazon, which brought more than one million signatures to theNational Congress; as well as the bemquerermulher.com.br campaign that aims to end violence against women in Brazilian society.^[15]

Torloni also fights for other causes related to the environment in general, seeking to preserve animal habitats and end deforestation, as well as social causes, such as supporting needy people. She harshly criticized theBolsonaro government, mainly for the measures that approved the dismantling ofAmazon reserves.^[16]

In 2011, giving an interview during Rock in Rio on television, he launched the expression "Hoje é dia de rock, bebê!" which ended up making the festival’s history. In the following edition of Rock in Rio in 2013, the phrase, which had become ameme on social media, became an official t-shirt for the event^[17] and was even incorporated by the actress in a scene from the soap operaAlto Astral.

• 1979 –As Preciosas Ridículas
• 1980 –Bodas de Papel
• 1981 –The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
• 1984 –Uncle Vanya
• 1988 –O Lobo de Rayban... Julia Ferraz
• 1989–Orlando
• 1993 –10 Elevado a menos 43 – Extasis (in Portugal)
• 1994 –Hamlet
• 1997 –Salome... Salomé
• 2000 –Joana D'Arc – A revolta ... Joana D'arc
• 2002 –The Blue Room
• 2004 –Paixão de Cristo: O Auto de Deus –Virgin Mary
• 2005 –Mulheres por um Fio... Elise

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• 21st-century Brazilian actresses
• Dança dos Famosos winners

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