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Vera Farmiga
Clifton, New Jersey, USA
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 o…
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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.
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2026
The Leader
Movie Bonnie Nettles
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2025
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Movie Self - (archive footage)
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2025
Boots
TV show Barbara Cope
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2025
The Conjuring: Last Rites
Movie Lorraine Warren
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2024
Ezra
Movie Grace
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2023
Origin
Movie Kate Medina
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2023
The Nun II
Movie Lorraine Warren
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2022
Five Days at Memorial
TV show Dr. Anna Pou
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2022
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye
Movie Self - Eleanor Bishop
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2021
Hawkeye
TV show Eleanor Bishop
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2021
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
Movie Eleanor Bishop (archive footage)
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2021
The Many Saints of Newark
Movie Livia Soprano
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2021
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
Movie Lorraine Warren
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2021
Halston
TV show Adele
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2020
Faith & Fear: The Conjuring Universe
Movie Self
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2019
Annabelle Comes Home - Behind the Scenes
Movie Herself
More credits
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2019
Skin
Movie Shareen
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2019
Annabelle Comes Home
Movie Lorraine Warren
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2019
When They See Us
TV show Elizabeth Lederer
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2019
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Movie Emma Russell
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2019
Captive State
Movie Jane Doe
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2018
The Front Runner
Movie Lee Hart
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2018
The Nun
Movie Lorraine Warren
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2018
Boundaries
Movie Laura
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2018
The Commuter
Movie Joanna
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2017
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
TV show The Candidate
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2016
The Escape
Movie Dr. Nora Phillips
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2016
Burn Your Maps
Movie Alise Firth
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2016
The Conjuring 2
Movie Lorraine Warren
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2016
Special Correspondents
Movie Eleanor Finch
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2014
The Judge
Movie Samantha Powell
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2014
Closer to the Moon
Movie Alice Bercovich
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2013
At Middleton
Movie Edith
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2013
The Conjuring
Movie Lorraine Warren
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2013
Bates Motel
TV show Norma Bates
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2012
Goats
Movie Wendy Whitman
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2012
Safe House
Movie Catherine Linklater
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2011
Higher Ground
Movie Corinne Walker
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2011
Source Code
Movie Colleen Goodwin
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2010
Henry's Crime
Movie Julie Ivanova
