Vera Farmiga Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actress , Producer , Director
Birth name Vera Ann Farmiga
American nationality
Birth August 6, 1973 (Passaic County, New Jersey – United States)

BIOGRAPHY
Of Ukrainian origin, Vera Farmiga grew up in the United States, but did not learn English until the age of six. She studied drama and was soon on stage and on film sets for small roles. At the age of 24, she became one of the heroines of the series Roar: The Legend of Conor alongside another beginner, Heath Ledger . The adventure lasted three years, from 1997 to 2000.

Also courted by the cinema, she stood out in Far from Paradise in 1999, where she starred alongside Vince Vaughn and Anne Heche . Other roles will follow – 15 Minutes (2001), alongside Robert De Niro , or Love in the Time of Money (2002) with Steve Buscemi – allowing him to play on his European roots as well as to embody the perfect Americans. In 2004, she won the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Festival, the Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Best Actress and a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Debra Granik ‘s film, Down to the Bone, where she plays a mother of a cocaine addict.

Shortly after, the general public spotted her in A Crime in the Head of Jonathan Demme . In turn companion of Paul Walker in the thriller Fear in the Belly (2006) and of Matt Damon in The Departed (id.) by Martin Scorsese , she finds leading roles in films more on the fringes of the traditional Hollywood circuit like the drama Never Forever , Jury Prize at Deauville in 2007. We also find her in an “aerial” romance with George Clooney in In the Air in 2010 which earned her an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress. She does not shy away from her pleasure in some action films such as Source Code and Close Security . In 2011, she stepped behind the camera for the first time and directed her first film, Higher Ground , about a woman in the midst of a crisis of faith, adapted from the life of Carolyn Briggs .

Faced with the two enfant terribles Joshua (2007) and Esther (2009), in 2013 she took on the role of Norma Bates in Bates Motel , the television prequel to Psycho . She trained for four years with Freddie Highmorea disturbing, neurotic mother and son tandem, bordering on incest. However, she did not abandon cinema and distinguished herself in one of the great horror successes of the 2010s with the Conjuring saga in which she twice played the role of the medium Lorraine Warren. Almost ten years after Esther, she reunited with Jaume Collet-Serra and led Liam Neeson in a race against time aboard a train in The Passenger .