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.

[1] Fernanda Machado played the role of Laís in Rede Globo's 2009 telenovela Caras & Bocas, by Walcyr Carrasco.

[3] Fernanda Machado starred in the same year as Maria in Tropa de Elite which won the Berlin Film Festival in 2008.

[1] She was part of the cast of 2011 Rede Globo's telenovela Insensato Coração, playing the role of Luciana.

[7] On 2 February 2014, Fernanda married American entrepreneur Robert Riskin in São Luís Gongaza Chapel, Maringá.