Vera Farmiga

The genre habitual for Vera Farmiga is a thriller, her favorite image is a strange, if not exotic woman. She is an unusual lady in life. The star of The Departed and Up in the Sky is afraid to play the main roles. In her youth she performed on Broadway, where she dubbed the artists of the main cast who were not friends with choreography.

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The actress basically does not go to auditions, but attracts the attention of producers by filming mini-films in which she sets out her vision of the role. In an interview, Vera said that the script she did not like is sent to the oven, and the ashes then fertilize the garden near the house. In addition, Ukrainians can rightfully say about Farmiga “Our Man in Hollywood”: the celebrity has Slavic roots, and she knows her pedigree very well.

Vera was born and spent her childhood in Clifton, New Jersey. Her parents were immigrants from Ukraine: father Mikhail Farmiga is a computer engineer and analyst, and mother Lyubomir Spas worked as a school teacher. Vera was the second child in the family. She has an older brother Victor, as well as 5 younger brothers and sisters - Stefan, Nadia, Alexander, Larisa and Taissa. The youngest Taissa Farmiga also became a film actress.

In the family, the children spoke Ukrainian, so Vera did not know English until she went to elementary school. When she was 12 years old, the family moved to the city of Irvington, where the girl was sent to the Ukrainian Catholic School named after John the Baptist, from which she graduated in 1991.

As a schoolgirl, Vera Farmiga appeared on the big stage as a member of the Ukrainian folk ensemble "Sizokrylyi", where she sang and danced. In addition, she studied piano and achieved great success in this. Vera was also fond of sports, especially women's football, and was a member of the girls' scout team "Plast".

Despite the fact that in childhood the girl dreamed of becoming an ophthalmologist, the craving for creativity overpowered, and after graduating from school she entered Syracuse University, where she studied acting for 4 years. After receiving her diploma, the aspiring actress plays in a number of theatrical productions, and also starred in television series.

Vera Farmiga made her film debut in 1997 in the science fiction series Roar, after which she again focused on the career of a stage actress, acting sporadically. But Jennifer Garner and Chris Noth, Joaquin Phoenix and Cindy Loper, Winona Ryder and Richard Gere, Milla Jovovich and Adrian Brody became her partners at this time.

Farmiga's first major role was in the romantic film Love in a Time When Money Decides Everything. This is a collection of 9 stories about people entangled in the labyrinths of their own feelings. Vera appeared in the guise of a prostitute who met a dishonest broker on her way. In this role starred the star of "The Sopranos" Michael Imperioli. By the way, in the prequel to this crime tape about the Italian mafia "Multiple Saints of New Arch", scheduled for release in 2020, the actress also found a place.

A breakthrough in cinematic biography came in 2004, when Vera played Irene Morrison, a drug addicted mother of two, in the non-profit drama To the Last Line. This picture received critical acclaim, and Farmiga's performance earned very high marks. As a sign of this she was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize, awards at film screenings in Florida, Oregon and Morocco, and the Sundance Festival.

Professionals noted that the actress managed to move away from the stereotyped image of a drug addict and convey not only the internal state of a woman obsessed with drugs, but also show what the heroine would be like if she had not become addicted to them.

Thanks to the original way of passing the creative competition, Vera got the role of a police psychologist in the Oscar-winning crime-drama thriller The Departed. Her partner on the set was Leonardo DiCaprio, who personally insisted that director Martin Scorsese approve the girl for this role.

Farmiga's portrayal of a Nazi's wife and mother whose child accidentally dies in a concentration camp in the war drama Boy in the Striped Pajamas won the Portuguese filmmakers' Cineuphoria Awards and the British Independent Film Awards.

In the horror film "Child of Darkness", the actress again plays the role of the mother. This time, her daughter is a mentally unbalanced, dwarfed person who sows death around her. The project involves Peter Sarsgaard and Jimmy Bennett.

In 2009, Vera Farmiga and George Clooney were included in the cast of the tragicomedy "Up in the Sky", which was named the best film of the year by film critics. The actress has been nominated for a number of major film awards, including Oscars and Golden Globes, and also became a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. One of the leading US critics, Roger Ebert, said that if Farmiga is not America's most attractive and adorable woman, that is what she looks like on screen.

In 2011, Vera made her debut as a filmmaker with the drama Heaven and Earth, in which Taissa also appeared for the first time. The actress also played the role of Carolyn Briggs, a woman brought up in Christian severity, but at the same time not finding in herself religiosity. The spirit of the contradiction between skepticism and faith is the main idea of ​​the picture, which has achieved quite a large commercial success.

"Access code" Cape Town "" - so rarely found in Vera's filmography an action-packed thriller without a strong psychological load. True, her heroine, a CIA agent, is killed in the first frames of the picture. On-screen colleagues in the secret organization were Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds.

The heroine Farmiga in the fantastic drama "Source Code" sends people to any space-time point in an alternative reality in order to perform various tasks. They do the same with the character of Jake Gyllenhaal, instructing him to prevent a terrorist attack.

In 2013 Vera Farmiga got several leading roles. The actress played Alice in the drama with elements of the comedy Closer to the Moon, which was co-filmed by Italy, Poland, Romania and the United States. The picture shows a plot atypical for a comedy: Jewish "right-wing gangsters" rob a bank, for which the robbers are sentenced to death, and during the investigation they are used as communist propaganda.

In addition, the film is based on a true story: the largest robbery of the Romanian National Bank took place in Bucharest in 1959.

In the same year, the actress starred as Lorraine Warren in the horror film The Conjuring, which is based on the testimony of the Perron family, who claimed that they lived surrounded by spirits and ghosts that filled the house in Rhode Island. The supernatural expert is working with husband and colleague Ed Warren (Patrick Wilson) to investigate the case.

Also in 2013, Farmiga began acting in the TV series Bates Motel. The actress got the main role in this detective thriller - the hostess of the motel and single mother Norma Louise Bates. The series, which earned an Emmy nomination, became Vera's first experience as a producer.

According to the plot, based on the classic film by Alfred Hitchcock "Psycho", after the death of her husband, the woman and her son move to a new place, to the city of White Pine Bay in Oregon, buying a motel and the house of the Summers family. The family hopes for a new life, but is faced with cruelty and dirty secrets that the characters of Farmiga and Freddie Highmore have to answer.

In 2013, the actress starred in the title role of Edith Martin in the comedy melodrama "Middleton", the picture was released in January 2014. She played a mother who brought her daughter on an orientation tour of the prestigious Middleton College. On campus, a woman meets a former classmate who also arrived with her son.

In 2016, Vera returned to the role of an expert on the paranormal in the sequel "The Conjuring 2". The Warren couple are once again sent to investigate the house with evil spirits, but this time experts travel to London to face a local demon.

Later Farmiga appeared in the company of Eric Bana in the satirical comedy Special Correspondents, Jason Scott Lee in the adventure film Burn Your Cards, with Dakota Fanning in the short film Escape.

Hugh Jackman played the main role in the biopic How Not to Become President. The film is dedicated to the Senator from the US Democratic Party Gary Hart, whose ambition to take the top political post has failed twice due to adultery. Vera embodied the image of an unhappy wife who turns a blind eye to her husband's adventures.

In the thriller The Passenger, the actress played a mysterious woman who instructs a police officer to remove witnesses to the murder. Otherwise, he will lose his family.

The actress made her first attempt to arrange her personal life in 1997, having married a colleague from France, Sebastian Roche, a partner in the TV series "Roar". The wedding was played in the Bahamas. The couple lived together for 7 years, after which they separated, and a year later they officially terminated the relationship.

In 2004, Vera began dating musician Renn Hawkey, a member of the Deadsy industrial group, whom she conquered with dishes of Ukrainian cuisine. They got married in 2008, and a year later Farmiga gave birth to a son, Finn McDonnell. In 2010, the couple had a daughter, Gitta Lyubov.

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The family has two homes - in Ulster County, New York, and Vancouver and often moves from one to the other.

The actress posts photos from her everyday life on her Instagram page. Vera does not show a figure in a swimsuit, but in 2011 she starred in spicy images for Esquire magazine, which put her in 9th place out of 15 sexiest stars.

The creative simple Farmiga is unknown. In 2019, the premiere screenings of several films took place, where the actress is involved in the leading roles. In the horror film The Curse of Annabelle, which is considered both a prequel and a spin-off of The Conjuring, Vera plays the Warrens in tandem with Patrick Wilson, and a demon-possessed doll pesters their young daughter. The film is shot by Gary Doberman, one of the creators of the "Conjuring" universe.

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By the way, in 2020, it is planned to release the third season of a horror film based on the biography of American fans of the inexplicable and mysterious. In Vera's career, this is the second time that the audience's love for projects with her participation prompts them to shoot sequels.

The first time this happened was with the Bates Motel. The actress believes that now it is interesting to work on television, because in long-playing films it is possible to more accurately reveal the characters of the characters, and the filming partners get to know each other better, imbued with trust.

Another franchise, where Farmiga is invited - MonsterVerse ("Universe of monsters"), under the banner of which films about King Kong and monsters that feed on radiation are shot. Together with the star of Japanese cinema Ken Watanabe, she played in the fantastic action movie "Godzilla 2: King of the Monsters".

The actress is also involved in the thriller "Battle for Earth", which takes place after the conquest of the planet by aliens. Some of the earthlings cooperate with the aliens, and some have organized resistance.

2004 - "To the last line" 2004 - "Manchurian candidate" 2006 - "Run without looking back" 2006 - "The Departed" 2008 - "Boy in striped pajamas" 2009 - "Up in the sky" 2011 - "Henry's crime trick" 2012 - Cape Town Access Code 2013 - Bates Motel 2013 - The Conjuring 2014 - Middleton 2016 - The Conjuring 2 2018 - Passenger 2018 - How Not to Become President 2019 - Battle for Earth 2019 - "Godzilla 2: King of the Monsters"

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Vera Farmiga Net Worth 2021

Vera Farmiga 's revenue is $1.5M in 2021. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Vera Farmiga and could vary in the range between $788.7K - $1.4M.

Vera Farmiga Net Worth 2020

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Vera Farmiga Net Worth 2019

Vera Farmiga 's revenue is $2M in 2019. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Vera Farmiga and could vary in the range between $720.2K - $1.9M.

Vera Farmiga Net Worth 2018

Vera Farmiga 's revenue is $1.5M in 2018. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Vera Farmiga and could vary in the range between $573K - $1.3M.

Vera Farmiga Net Worth 2017

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Vera Farmiga Net Worth 2016

Vera Farmiga 's revenue is $1.6M in 2016. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Vera Farmiga and could vary in the range between $931.5K - $1.2M.

Vera Farmiga Net Worth 2015

Vera Farmiga 's revenue is $1.4M in 2015. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Vera Farmiga and could vary in the range between $742.3K - $1.4M.

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