Vera Farmiga made her television debut in the Fox fantasy adventure series Roar, and her feature film debut in the drama-thriller Return to Paradise.
60 Facts About Vera Farmiga
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Vera Farmiga's breakthrough came in 2004 with her starring role as a drug addict in the drama Down to the Bone.
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Vera Farmiga received further praise for the drama film Nothing But the Truth, and won critical acclaim for starring in the 2009 comedy-drama Up in the Air, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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Vera Farmiga made her directorial debut in 2011 with the acclaimed drama film Higher Ground, in which she had a leading role.
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Vera Farmiga had starring roles in the political thriller The Manchurian Candidate, the crime drama The Departed, the historical drama The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, the science fiction thriller Source Code, the action thriller Safe House, the legal drama The Judge, the biographical drama The Front Runner, the monster film Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe series Hawkeye.
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Vera Farmiga portrayed paranormal investigator Lorraine Warren in the Conjuring Universe films The Conjuring, The Conjuring 2, Annabelle Comes Home and The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It.
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Vera Farmiga was born on August 6,1973, in Clifton, New Jersey.
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Vera Farmiga's parents are Ukrainians: Michael Farmiga, a systems analyst-turned-landscaper, and his wife Lubomyra "Luba", a schoolteacher.
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Vera Farmiga has an older brother, Victor, and five younger siblings: Stephan, Nadia, Alexander, Laryssa, and Taissa.
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Vera Farmiga was raised in an insular Ukrainian American community in Irvington, New Jersey, with Ukrainian as her native language.
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Vera Farmiga did not learn English until she started kindergarten at age six.
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Vera Farmiga attended St John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic School in Newark, New Jersey, and toured with a Ukrainian folk-dancing ensemble, Syzokryli, during her teen years.
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Vera Farmiga went on to study Theatre at Syracuse University, and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1995.
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In February 1996, Vera Farmiga starred as Miranda in the American Conservatory Theater's production of The Tempest.
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Vera Farmiga made her Broadway debut alongside Ed Harris and Daniel Massey in October 1996, understudying the role of Emmi Straube in Ronald Harwood's play Taking Sides.
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Vera Farmiga had a main role in Fox's short-lived fantasy adventure series Roar, alongside Heath Ledger and Sebastian Roche.
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Vera Farmiga next played a supporting role alongside Vince Vaughn and Joaquin Phoenix in the drama-thriller Return to Paradise.
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Vera Farmiga then had a guest appearance on the NBC drama Trinity, portraying Allison.
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Two years later, Vera Farmiga had a supporting role as Lisa Tyler in the romantic drama Autumn in New York.
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Vera Farmiga subsequently joined the main cast of NBC's short-lived procedural drama series UC: Undercover as Alex Cross.
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Vera Farmiga then appeared in the Hallmark fantasy television film Snow White: The Fairest of Them All.
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Vera Farmiga had her first starring role in the romantic drama Love in the Time of Money, which premiered at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival.
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Vera Farmiga next appeared as Lorena Fanchetti in the comedy-drama Dummy, alongside Adrien Brody.
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Vera Farmiga won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress, and earned a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead.
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Vera Farmiga next appeared alongside Hilary Swank and Anjelica Huston in the HBO drama film Iron Jawed Angels, as the Polish-American suffragette Ruza Wenclawska.
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Vera Farmiga then starred as Detective Susan Branca in the short-lived USA Network adaptation of the British crime drama series Touching Evil.
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Vera Farmiga then appeared alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon as police psychiatrist Dr Madolyn Madden in Martin Scorsese's crime drama The Departed.
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Vera Farmiga next starred as Teresa Gazelle in Wayne Kramer's crime thriller Running Scared, and as the Romanian prostitute Oana in Anthony Minghella's romantic crime drama Breaking and Entering.
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Vera Farmiga subsequently landed the lead role of Sophie Lee in Gina Kim's romantic drama Never Forever, which premiered at the 2007 Sundance.
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Vera Farmiga next starred as Abby Cairn in the psychological thriller film Joshua, with Sam Rockwell, and portrayed Fiona Ankany in the drama film Quid Pro Quo, which premiered at the 2008 Sundance.
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Vera Farmiga won the British Independent Film Award for Best Actress for her performance.
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In 2009, Vera Farmiga portrayed the lead role of Kate Coleman in Jaume Collet-Serra's psychological thriller Orphan.
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Vera Farmiga then appeared as Aurora de Valday in Niki Caro's romantic drama The Vintner's Luck, which premiered at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival.
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Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times praised Vera Farmiga's performance, stating that she "is one of the warmest and most attractive women in the movies, or at least she plays one".
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Vera Farmiga received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role, BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, and her second nomination for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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Vera Farmiga then starred in the surrealist romantic comedy Henry's Crime as stage actress Julie Ivanova, which premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival.
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In 2010, Vera Farmiga was offered a lead role in Marc Forster's action biopic Machine Gun Preacher, but declined because she was pregnant.
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Vera Farmiga starred opposite Ryan Reynolds and, for the second time, Denzel Washington.
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Vera Farmiga next appeared in James Wan's horror film The Conjuring, which was met with critical and commercial success.
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Vera Farmiga reprised her role in the sequel, The Conjuring 2, which was directed by Wan.
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Vera Farmiga appeared as Edith Martin in the romantic comedy At Middleton, with Andy Garcia and her sister Taissa.
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Vera Farmiga next co-starred in David Dobkin's drama film The Judge as Samantha Powell, the love interest and high school girlfriend of Robert Downey Jr.
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Vera Farmiga then starred as Eleanor Finch in Ricky Gervais' comedy Special Correspondents, which premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival.
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Vera Farmiga next appeared as Alise Firth in Jordan Roberts' adventure comedy-drama Burn Your Maps, which premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.
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Vera Farmiga co-starred as Dr Nora Phillips in Neill Blomkamp's BMW short film The Escape, alongside Dakota Fanning and Clive Owen.
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Vera Farmiga co-starred with Liam Neeson in Jaume Collet-Serra's action thriller The Commuter, which was released in January 2018.
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Vera Farmiga then portrayed Laura Jaconi in Shana Feste's comedy-drama film Boundaries, which premiered in March 2018 at South by Southwest.
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Also in May 2019, Vera Farmiga portrayed prosecutor Elizabeth Lederer in Ava DuVernay's Netflix crime drama miniseries When They See Us, based on the Central Park jogger case.
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In May 2021, Vera Farmiga made a special guest appearance in Netflix's drama limited series Halston, based on the life of the fashion designer of the same name, opposite Ewan McGregor in the title role.
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Vera Farmiga then reprised her role as Lorraine Warren in The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, released in June 2021.
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In September 2021, Vera Farmiga appeared as Livia Soprano in the film prequel to The Sopranos, titled The Many Saints of Newark, directed by Alan Taylor.
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Vera Farmiga met actor Sebastian Roche while starring together in the fantasy adventure television series Roar; they eloped to the Bahamas after it ended in 1997, and were divorced in 2004.
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Vera Farmiga began dating Deadsy musician Renn Hawkey, after being introduced by mutual friend Allen Hughes on the set of Touching Evil.
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Vera Farmiga gave birth to a son, Fynn, in January 2009 in Rhinebeck, New York and a daughter, Gytta, in November 2010.
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Vera Farmiga is close friends with her Bates Motel co-star Freddie Highmore, who is godfather to her son, and with her Conjuring co-star Patrick Wilson.
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Vera Farmiga is a nondenominational Christian; in a 2011 interview with Christianity Today, Vera Farmiga said:.
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Vera Farmiga won a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead for her role in Down to the Bone.
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Vera Farmiga won a British Independent Film Award for Best Actress for The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.
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Vera Farmiga's most acclaimed role, in Up in the Air, garnered Farmiga nominations for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, a BAFTA for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Female Actor in a Supporting Role.
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Vera Farmiga won a Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television, and received nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series and a TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Drama for her role in the drama series Bates Motel.