Vera Farmiga appreciation thread

[Canada]

Vera Farmiga was born August 6, 1973 in Clifton, New Jersey, USA. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone said of her performance in Down to the Bone "If there is any ounce of taste left in Hollywood Vera Farmiga would be a front-runner for the Best Actress Oscar" She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Up in the Air (2009) and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her role in Bates Motel (2013).

She was born Vera Ann Farmiga, the second of seven children, on August 6, 1973, in Clifton, New Jersey, USA, to Ukrainian parents. She did not speak English until the age of six, and was raised in the Ukrainian Catholic home of her mother, Luba (Spas), a schoolteacher, and her father, Michael Farmiga, a computer systems analyst. Her younger sister is actress Taissa Farmiga, who is 21 years her junior. She attended a Ukrainian Catholic school, then went to public school. Young Vera was a shy, nearsighted girl, who played piano and folk danced with a Ukrainian touring company in her teens.

In 1991, she graduated from Hunterdon Central Regional High School. She initially dreamed of becoming an optometrist, but changed her mind, and studied acting at Syracuse University's School of Performing Arts, graduating in 1995. The following year, she began her professional acting career, making her Broadway debut as an understudy in the play "Taking Sides". Her stage credits included performances in "The Tempest", "Good", "The Seagull", and in a well-reviewed off-Broadway production of "Second-Hand Smoke" (1997). That same year, she made her television debut as the female lead, opposite a then-unknown Heath Ledger, in Fox's adventure series Roar (1997).

In 1998, Farmiga made her big screen debut in the drama Return to Paradise (1998), then played the daughters of Christopher Walken in The Opportunists (2000) and Richard Gere in Autumn in New York (2000). She starred as a working-class mother struggling to keep her life and marriage together while hiding her drug addiction in Down to the Bone (2004), for which she was awarded Best Actress from the 2004 Sundance Film Festival and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. Farmiga's acting talent shone in a range of characters, from her role as a senator's daughter in The Manchurian Candidate (2004), the wife of a mobster in Running Scared (2006), a humorous prostitute in Breaking and Entering (2006), and a police psychiatrist in The Departed (2006).

In 2010, Farmiga received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance in Up in the Air (2009). In 2011, she made her directorial debut with the drama Higher Ground (2011), in which she also appears in the leading role. Although the film had a limited release, Farmiga's direction and performance received attention at several festivals. In 2013, she began starring in the drama thriller series Bates Motel (2013), for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in the first season.

Farmiga was formerly married to actor Sebastian Roché, whom she met during production of Roar (1997). The two eloped to the Bahamas after the series ended in 1997. They separated in 2003 and subsequently divorced. On September 13, 2008, she married musician Renn Hawkey, with whom she has two children, son Fynn McDonnell (b. 2009) and daughter Gytta Lubov Hawkey (b. 2010). Farmiga lives with her family in Hudson Valley, New York. Her other activities, outside her acting profession, include reading, playing piano, boxing, jujitsu.

[Canada]

[Canada]

Vera Farmiga has roles in The Many Saints of Newark (The Sopranos prequel) and The Conjuring 3 in 2020.

[Ribelin2000]

Liked her in The Departed, although Kate Winslet would've been better in the part.

[Elgie]

I’ll just get right down to it:

[Creed]

Yowza.

[KJH2018]

She's great and beautiful. I'm a fan

[drb999]

Beautiful and great actress

[Canada]

Originally Posted by KJH2018

She's great and beautiful. I'm a fan

I had a Quesadilla for dinner, but now I could really go for a Burrito!

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Elgie

I’ll just get right down to it:

What film is this from?

[Canada]

We need the Departed on 4K UHD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsxcZol_FEE

[Creed]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

What film is this from?

Running Scared.

[Canada]

Originally Posted by Creed

Running Scared.

I'm renting that.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Creed

Running Scared.

Thank you sir.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Canada

I'm renting that.

I’m buying that!

[Canada]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

I’m buying that!

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Canada

Ameeeeeen!

Seriously though, I love Vera. How the heck has this one slipped my sights?

[Canada]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

I’m buying that!

I just bought that. As much as I love buying Canadian stuff I just couldn't buy the Canadian release, it's 1080i only where as the American release is 1080p

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Canada

I just bought that. As much as I love buying Canadian stuff I just couldn't buy the Canadian release, it's 1080i only where as the American release is 1080p

Yeah, I tend to notice 1080i as well, I know what you mean.

This film looks ultra violent, looking forward to it!

[KJH2018]

[Show spoiler] [/quote]

That's quite the saucy scene with Paul Walker RIP