Known For
Acting
Born
Aug 06, 1973
Place of Birth
Clifton, New Jersey, USA
Credits
82 titles
Vera Farmiga
Biography
Vera Ann Farmiga (/fɑːrˈmiːɡə/ far-MEE-gə; born August 6, 1973) is an American actress. Farmiga began her professional acting career on stage in the original Broadway production of Taking Sides (1996). After expanding to television and film, her breakthrough came with her starring role as a drug addict in the drama Down to the Bone (2004). She then had roles in the political thriller The Manchurian Candidate (2004), the crime drama The Departed (2006), and the historical drama The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008). She was also established as a scream queen for her performances in the horror films Joshua (2007) and Orphan (2009). For her performance in the comedy-drama Up in the Air (2009), Farmiga was nominated for an Academy Award and other accolades. She then made her directorial debut with the drama film Higher Ground (2011), in which she had the leading role. She starred in the thrillers Source Code (2011) and Safe House (2012), before furthering her scream queen status by portraying paranormal investigator Lorraine Warren in the Conjuring Universe films The Conjuring (2013), The Conjuring 2 (2016), Annabelle Comes Home (2019), and The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021). She also starred in the legal drama The Judge (2014), the biographical drama The Front Runner (2018), the monster film Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), and the crime drama The Many Saints of Newark (2021). On television, Farmiga received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for playing Norma Louise Bates in the A&E drama horror series Bates Motel (2013–2017) and starring in the Netflix miniseries When They See Us (2019). She also appears in the Disney+ miniseries Hawkeye (2021), set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the Apple TV+ miniseries Five Days at Memorial (2022). Description above from the Wikipedia article Vera Farmiga, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
The Leader
Bonnie Nettles
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Self - (archive footage)
Boots
Barbara Cope
The Conjuring: Last Rites
Lorraine Warren
Ezra
Grace
Origin
Kate Medina
The Nun II
Lorraine Warren
Five Days at Memorial
Dr. Anna Pou
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye
Self - Eleanor Bishop
Hawkeye
Eleanor Bishop
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
Eleanor Bishop (archive footage)
The Many Saints of Newark
Livia Soprano
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
Lorraine Warren
Halston
Adele
Faith & Fear: The Conjuring Universe
Self
Skin
Shareen
Annabelle Comes Home
Lorraine Warren
When They See Us
Elizabeth Lederer
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Emma Russell
Captive State
Jane Doe
The Front Runner
Lee Hart
The Nun
Lorraine Warren
Boundaries
Laura
The Commuter
Joanna
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
The Candidate
The Escape
Dr. Nora Phillips
Burn Your Maps
Alise Firth
The Conjuring 2
Lorraine Warren
Special Correspondents
Eleanor Finch
The Judge
Samantha Powell
Closer to the Moon
Alice Bercovich
At Middleton
Edith Martin
The Conjuring
Lorraine Warren
Bates Motel
Norma Bates
Goats
Wendy Whitman
Safe House
Catherine Linklater
Higher Ground
Corinne Walker
Source Code
Colleen Goodwin
Henry's Crime
Julie Ivanova
Up in the Air
Alex Goran
Mama's Little Devils: Bad Seeds and Evil Children
Self
The Vintner's Luck
Aurora de Valday
Orphan
Kate
Nothing but the Truth
Erica van Doren
Quid Pro Quo
Fiona Ankany
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Mother
In Tranzit
Natalia
Notes on an American Film Director at Work
Self
Never Forever
Sophie Lee
Joshua
Abby Cairn