| Net Worth: | $10 Million |
|---|---|
| Date of birth: | August 6, 1973 (51 years old) |
| Gender: | Female |
| Profession: | Actor, Film Director |
| Nationality: | American |
Vera was born August 6, 1973 in Clifton, New Jersey. She has Ukrainian ancestry. Farmiga is now married for the second time and has two kids. In 2014, you are most likely to see her in Bates Motel TV series. Her notable movies are The Manchurian Candidate, Source Code, and Safe House. In 2014, Vera will be also starring in Closer to the Moon and The Judge.
Career
In 1996, Vera played Miranda in “The Tempest” at the American Conservatory Theater and Anne Hartman in “Good” at The Barrow Group and appeared on Broadway in “Taking Sides.” She made her television debut in 1997, playing Emily Elliot in the TV movie “Rose Hill” and co-starring with Heath Ledger on the Fox series “Roar.” Farmiga made her big screen debut in 1998’s “Return to Paradise,” and she followed it with roles in “The Opportunists” (2000), “Autumn in New York” (2000), “15 Minutes” (2001), “Love in the Time of Money” (2002), and “Dummy” (2002). She appeared in the 2001 TV movie “Snow White: The Fairest of Them All,” and from 2001 to 2002, she starred as Alex Cross on NBC’s “UC: Undercover.” In 2004, Vera portrayed suffragist Ruza Wenclawska in the TV movie “Iron Jawed Angels,” played Detective Susan Branca on the USA Network series “Touching Evil,” and co-starred with Denzel Washington and Meryl Streep in “The Manchurian Candidate.” Farmiga then appeared in the films “Running Scared” (2006), “Breaking and Entering” (2006), “Joshua” (2007), “Nothing But the Truth” (2008), and “Orphan” (2009). In 2006, she played Dr. Madolyn Madden in Martin Scorsese’s “The Departed” alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, and Jack Nicholson, and in 2008, she starred as Elsa Hoess in “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.” Vera earned an Academy Award nomination for her performance as Alex Goran in 2009’s “Up in the Air,” and the following year, she was inducted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Personal Life
Vera married her “Roar” co-star Sebastian Roché in 1997, and they divorced in 1994. She wed musician Renn Hawkey on September 13, 2008, and they welcomed son Fynn on January 13, 2009, and daughter Gytta on November 4, 2010. Farmiga’s “Bates Motel” co-star Freddie Highmore is Fynn’s godfather. A nondenominational Christian, Vera told “Christianity Today” in 2011, “I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family’s faith. My father instilled in me … to define God, to define holiness for myself. That was my parents’ number one lesson for us. I don’t belong to any particular church, but I’m someone who will be able to walk into any place of worship, any house of worship, and have a direct correspondence.”
Quotes
“You don’t necessarily have to be religious to pray.”
— Vera Farmiga
“We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.”
— Vera Farmiga
“Offers come all the time, but I’m pretty particular. I really have to be wowed by a character I encounter in a script, or a storyline. I really do need to feel inspiration, otherwise I’m just happy planting perennials and making goat cheese.”
— Vera Farmiga
“I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, ‘Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse.’”
— Vera Farmiga
“I don’t necessarily need Hollywood.”
— Vera Farmiga