Her first television work was in 2004, when she played Sonya in Rede Globo's telenovela Começar de Novo, by Antônio Calmon and Elizabeth Jhin.
She had previously worked with him in Alma Gêmea. Fernanda Machado starred in the same year as Maria in Tropa de Elite which won the Berlin Film Festival in 2008.
She was part of the cast of 2011 Rede Globo's telenovela Insensato Coração, playing the role of Luciana. Her character was killed in a plane crash on January 25, 2011's episode. In 2013 returns in the novels Amor à Vida, the plot she will live the villain Leila.
On February 2, 2014, married American Entrepreneur Robert Riskin in São Luís Gongaza Chapel, Maringá. On June 22, 2015 she gave birth to Lucca, the couple's first child.
