Throughout her career on television which started in the early 1990s, Furtado has worked for
SIC and
RTP television networks, as well as the radio stations
Rádio Comercial and
RDP Antena 3. While an underage girl, she had a short non-talking role in the film
Non, ou a Vã Glória de Mandar directed by
Manoel de Oliveira. Later on she starred in films like
Killing Time (an English film that appeared in the
Cannes Film Festival),
Fatima (an Italian movie by
Fabrizio Costa),
Anjo da Guarda and
Pesadelo cor-de-rosa, among others. Furtado's first big success was as a presenter on the TV show
Top + on RTP, a Portuguese program featuring popular music videos and the national weekly
record chart. It was a music show that led to her hosting an
MTV program on the
SIC network, years before
Portuguese MTV was founded. She went on to do a variety of shows, including
Treasure Hunt (
Caça ao Tesouro), on SIC television, which was often shot on location in Portugal's smaller towns, where Catarina arrived in a
helicopter. On 8 January 2018, Furtado was announced as one of the four hosts of the
2018 Eurovision Song Contest alongside
Sílvia Alberto,
Daniela Ruah, and
Filomena Cautela. ==Personal life==