1. Taissa Farmiga rose to prominence for her work on the anthology series American Horror Story, starring in the seasons Murder House, Coven, Roanoke and Apocalypse.
31 Facts About Taissa Farmiga
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Taissa Farmiga drew praise for her performances in the comedy slasher film The Final Girls, and the drama films 6 Years and Share, all of which premiered at South by Southwest, which led her to be named one of the breakout stars of the festival.
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Taissa Farmiga has provided the voice of Raven in the DC Animated Movie Universe, starred in the comedy films Rules Don't Apply and The Long Dumb Road, the drama films In a Valley of Violence and What They Had, and the supernatural thriller films The Nun and its sequel.
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Taissa Farmiga featured in the main cast of the procedural drama series Wicked City, and made her stage debut in the Off-Broadway revival of the drama play Buried Child.
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Taissa Farmiga was born in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, on August 17,1994, the daughter of Ukrainian immigrants Lubomyra, a schoolteacher, and Michael Taissa Farmiga, a systems analyst.
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Taissa Farmiga is the youngest of seven siblings: Victor, Vera, Stephan, Nadia, Alexander "Alex" and Laryssa, the last of whom was born with spina bifida.
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Taissa Farmiga attended public school until the fourth grade, after which she began being homeschooled by her mother, alongside her two siblings Alex and Laryssa.
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Taissa Farmiga has stated that she understands Ukrainian language but can only partially speak it.
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Taissa Farmiga is proficient in American Sign Language, having taken classes for four years.
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Taissa Farmiga was raised Pentecostal as her sister Vera and the rest of the family had already been converts from the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
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Shortly after its premiere at the 2011 Sundance, where Taissa Farmiga garnered rave reviews for her performance, she was signed to talent agency ICM Partners.
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That same year, Taissa Farmiga starred in the first season of FX's anthology series American Horror Story, which launched her to worldwide prominence.
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Taissa Farmiga secured the role of Violet in her first professional acting audition.
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Taissa Farmiga next joined the cast of Sofia Coppola's crime satire The Bling Ring, based on the real life criminal group of the same name, portraying 17-year-old wild child Sam Moore.
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Taissa Farmiga then portrayed Audrey Martin, an uptight teen touring a college campus, in the romantic comedy At Middleton, co-starring with her sister Vera and Andy Garcia.
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Taissa Farmiga returned to the American Horror Story franchise to star as Zoe Benson, a young witch afflicted with a dark and dangerous power in the third season, American Horror Story: Coven, for which she received critical acclaim.
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Taissa Farmiga had her first leading film role as Anna Greene in Jorge Dorado's psychological thriller Mindscape, which premiered at the 2013 Sitges Film Festival.
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Taissa Farmiga next co-starred as Sarah, the main character's love interest, in the biographical crime drama Jamesy Boy.
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Taissa Farmiga starred in three films that premiered at the 2015 South by Southwest: the first was Todd Strauss-Schulson's critically-acclaimed horror comedy The Final Girls, in which she portrayed the lead role of final girl Max Cartwright, which earned her a Fright Meter Award nomination.
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Taissa Farmiga next appeared as Karen McClaren, a young journalist who gets caught up in the hunt for a serial killer, in ABC's short-lived crime drama series Wicked City.
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Taissa Farmiga then starred opposite Ethan Hawke and John Travolta in the Ti West-directed revenge Western film In a Valley of Violence, playing a motormouthed young innkeeper who befriends Hawke's character.
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Taissa Farmiga made her voice acting debut as the superhero Raven in DC Comics' Justice League vs Teen Titans, directed by Sam Liu, which premiered at the 2016 WonderCon, and thereafter returned to American Horror Story for the sixth season of the series, Roanoke, where she guest starred as Sophie Green in the November 2016 episode "Chapter 9".
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Taissa Farmiga next co-starred as Sarah Bransford in Warren Beatty's ensemble romantic comedy-drama Rules Don't Apply, which premiered at the 2016 AFI Fest to mixed reviews.
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Taissa Farmiga reprised her voice role as Raven in Teen Titans: The Judas Contract, again directed by Sam Liu, which premiered at the 2017 WonderCon.
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Taissa Farmiga next played Emma Ertz in Elizabeth Chomko's drama film What They Had, and re-teamed with director Hannah Fidell for the comedy film The Long Dumb Road, both of which premiered at the 2018 Sundance.
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Taissa Farmiga next appeared as the Catholic novitiate Sister Irene in Corin Hardy's horror film The Nun, the fifth film in The Conjuring Universe, which was released in September 2018, and became the highest-grossing film in its series.
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Taissa Farmiga then played protagonist Merricat Blackwood in Stacie Passon's film adaptation of Shirley Jackson's mystery novel We Have Always Lived in the Castle, which premiered at the 2018 LA Film Festival.
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Taissa Farmiga appeared alongside Clint Eastwood and Bradley Cooper in the Eastwood-directed drama film The Mule, released in December 2018.
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In May 2019, Taissa Farmiga appeared as Annie Miller in an episode of the CBS All Access series of The Twilight Zone, a reboot of the 1959 TV series of the same name, where she starred opposite Rhea Seehorn, Luke Kirby and Ike Barinholtz.
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In 2022, Taissa Farmiga began starring in the HBO period drama series The Gilded Age as socialite Gladys Russell, the daughter of Carrie Coon's character.
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Taissa Farmiga next starred in the independent romantic drama film She Taught Love in the supporting role of Samantha Miron, which was released by Hulu on September 27,2024.