Fernanda Young

{{Infobox person

| name = Fernanda Young

| image = Fernanda-young-escritora-e-apresentadora-1264703717443 300x300.jpg

| caption = Young in 2009

| birth_name = Fernanda Maria Leite Young

| birth_date = {{birth date|1970|5|1|df=y}}

| birth_place = Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

| death_date = {{death date and age|2019|8|25|1970|5|1|df=y}}

| death_place = Paraisópolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil

| resting_place = Congonhas Cemetery, São Paulo, Brazil

| occupation = {{flatlist|

Writer
screenwriter
television presenter
model
actress

}}

| years_active = 1989−2019

| known_for = {{plainlist|

Os Normais
Separação?!
Macho Man
Como Aproveitar o Fim do Mundo

}}

| spouse = {{Marriage|Alexandre Machado|1993}}

| children = 4

| website = {{url|http://www.fernandayoung.com.br/}}

}}

Fernanda Maria Young de Carvalho Machado (née Leite Young; 1 May 1970 – 25 August 2019), commonly known as Fernanda Young, was a Brazilian writer, screenwriter, television presenter, model and actress.

Education

Young's literary background was partly formed while crossing the Guanabara Bay by ferry or by bus.{{cite web|url=http://gnt.globo.com/mariliagabrielaentrevista/episodios/_325425.shtml|title=Marília Gabriela entrevista Fernanda Young|trans-title=Marília Gabriela interviews Fernanda Young|language=pt|website=GNT|date=27 March 2011|accessdate=27 August 2019}} She interrupted her studies after graduating from elementary school, and then graduated from high school through a six-month substitute. She attended the Faculty of Arts of the Fluminense Federal University, without graduating. She would still study journalism at Faculdades Integradas Hélio Alonso and, after moving to São Paulo and beginning her writing career, he would become a Radio and Television student at Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado (FAAP), but would not finish any of the courses. Young later stated that she'd sworn never to step on a university campus after the experiments, but later attended Fine Arts at FAAP.{{cite web|url=http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/cidadona/2015/07/1650818-aos-45-fernanda-young-passa-em-oitavo-lugar-em-seu-quarto-vestibular.shtml|title=Aos 45, Fernanda Young passa em oitavo lugar em seu quarto vestibular|trans-title=At 45, Fernanda Young passes in eighth place in her fourth entrance exam|language=pt|work=Folha de S.Paulo|date=7 July 2015|accessdate=27 August 2019}}

Career

In 2013, she wrote and acted as one of the protagonists of the series Surtadas na Yoga ("Yoga Freaks"), with thirteen episodes in the first season. The series tells the story of three women, Jessica (Young), Ana Maria ({{ill|Flávia Garrafa|pt}}) and Marion (Anna Sophia Folch) who do yoga to "deal with the madness of the world, and their own madness".{{cite web|url=http://gnt.globo.com/series/surtadas-na-yoga/materias/fernanda-young-estreia-nova-serie-no-gnt-surtadas-na-yoga.htm|title=Fernanda Young estreia nova série no GNT, 'Surtadas na Yoga'|trans-title=Fernanda Young debuts new series on GNT, 'Yoga Freaks'|language=pt|date=5 April 2013|work=GNT|accessdate=27 August 2019}} Due to its success and 115% growth in the GNT audience,{{cite web|url=https://telaviva.com.br/13/06/2013/ficcao-nacional-eleva-audiencia-do-gnt-no-horario-nobre/|title=Ficção nacional eleva audiência do GNT no horário nobre|trans-title=National fiction raises GNT audience in prime time|language=pt|work=Tela Viva|date=13 June 2013|accessdate=27 August 2019}} in April 2014 a second season was launched with thirteen more episodes. In October 2014, after three seasons, the series was canceled.{{cite web|url=http://kogut.oglobo.globo.com/noticias-da-tv/coluna/noticia/2014/10/gnt-cancela-surtadas-na-yoga.html|title=GNT cancela 'Surtadas na Yoga'|trans-title=GNT cancels 'Yoga freaks'|language=pt|first1=Patrícia|last1=Kogut|date=11 October 2014|work=O Globo|accessdate=27 August 2019}}{{cite web|url=http://f5.folha.uol.com.br/televisao/2014/10/1531091-apos-tres-temporadas-surtadas-na-yoga-nao-sera-renovada.shtml|title=Após três temporadas, 'Surtadas na Yoga' não será renovada|trans-title=After three seasons, 'Yoga freaks' won't be renewed|language=pt|date=11 October 2014|work=F5 – Folha de S.Paulo|accessdate=27 August 2019}}

Young posed nude for the Brazilian edition of Playboy magazine, launched in November 2009.{{cite web|url=http://diversao.terra.com.br/gente/fernanda-young-confirma-que-posara-para-a-playboy,4343f59cb997a310VgnCLD200000bbcceb0aRCRD.html|title=Fernanda Young confirma que posará para a Playboy|trans-title=Fernanda Young confirms that she will pose for Playboy|language=pt|work=Terra|date=12 September 2009|accessdate=27 August 2019}}

In May 2015, she released her eleventh book and the second poetry book of her career, entitled A Mão Esquerda de Vênus ("The Left Hand of Venus"), by Editora Globo. The launch took place at the Vermelho Gallery in São Paulo.{{cite web|url=http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/livrariadafolha/2016/04/1765431-conheca-a-mao-esquerda-de-venus-novo-livro-de-fernanda-young.shtml|title=Conheça "A Mão Esquerda de Vênus", novo livro de Fernanda Young|trans-title=Meet "The Left Hand of Venus", new book by Fernanda Young|language=pt|work=Folha de S.Paulo|date=28 April 2016|accessdate=27 August 2019}}

It was announced that she would be in the new version of TV Mulher, a television program aimed at a female audience, with a premiere scheduled for 31 May 2016 on the Viva channel.{{cite web|url=http://www.meioemensagem.com.br/home/videos/2016/05/20/tv-mulher-chega-ao-viva-de-cara-nova.html|title=TV Mulher chega ao Viva de cara nova|trans-title=TV Mulher comes to Viva with a new face|language=pt|work=Meio e Mensagem|date=28 May 2016|accessdate=27 August 2019}}

At the time of her death, Young was scheduled to debut a new play, Ainda Nada de Novo ("Still Nothing New"), on 12 September at the Cultural Center of São Paulo. The play, about two homosexual actresses, would have starred Young and {{ill|Fernanda Nobre|pt}}.{{Cite web|title=Fernanda Young e Fernanda Nobre duelam na peça "Ainda Nada de Novo"|trans-title=Fernanda Young and Fernanda Nobre duel in the play “Still Nothing New”|language=pt|url=https://vejasp.abril.com.br/blog/dirceu-alves-jr/fernanda-nobre-young-peca-ainda-nada-de-novo-jose-roberto-jardim-gay/|work=Veja|date=23 August 2019|accessdate=27 August 2019}}

Personal life and death

Young was married to screenwriter and writer Alexandre Machado since 1993 and had four children: twins Cecilia Maddona and Estela May (born 2000); and two adopted children, Catarina Lakshimi (born 2008), and John Gopala (born 2009).

Young died on 25 August 2019, at the age of 49, due to an intense and sudden asthmatic crisis. Young, who had asthma since childhood and always received treatment, was staying at her family's place in Gonçalves, Minas Gerais, where she went to visit them. After the crisis started, she passed out in her bedroom. An ambulance was called, and she was taken to the nearest hospital, located in the city of Paraisópolis. She died of respiratory and cardiac arrest just over an hour after being admitted into ICU. Young was buried in Congonhas Cemetery, in the southern zone of São Paulo, the city where she had lived for fifteen years.{{Cite web|title=Velório da atriz Fernanda Young é marcado pela emoção|trans-title=The wake of actress Fernanda Young is marked by emotion|url=https://www.ofuxico.com.br/noticias-sobre-famosos/famosos-se-emocionam-no-velorio-da-atriz-fernanda-young/2019/08/25-356962.html|work=OFuxico|language=pt|date=25 August 2019|accessdate=27 August 2019}}{{cite web |url= https://novodianoticias.com.br/2019/08/atriz-escritora-e-roteirista-fernanda-young-morre-aos-49-anos/|title= Atriz, escritora e roteirista Fernanda Young morre aos 49 anos|trans-title=Actress, writer and screenwriter Fernanda Young dies at 49|language=pt|website=Novo Dia|date=26 August 2019|accessdate=27 August 2019}}