Vera Farmiga 1973 52
Vera Farmiga 1973 52
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).
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2025 The Conjuring: Last Rites as Lorraine Warren
2025 The Leader as Bonnie Nettles
2025 The Salamander Lives Twice as Goggy
2025 Billion Dollar Spy as Natasha Tolkachev
2025 Bad Bloom Producer
2024 Ezra as Grace
2023 Origin as Kate Medina
2023 The Nun II as Lorraine Warren
2022 Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye as Self - Eleanor Bishop
2021 Hawkeye as Eleanor Bishop
2021 Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special as Eleanor Bishop (archive footage)
2021 The Many Saints of Newark as Livia Soprano
2021 The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It as Lorraine Warren
2020 Faith & Fear: The Conjuring Universe as Self
2019 Skin as Shareen
2019 Annabelle Comes Home as Lorraine Warren
2019 Godzilla: King of the Monsters as Emma Russell
2019 Captive State as Jane Doe
2018 The Front Runner as Lee Hart
2018 The Nun as Lorraine Warren
2018 Boundaries as Laura Jaconi
2018 The Commuter as Joanna
2016 The Escape as Dr. Nora Phillips
2016 Burn Your Maps as Alise Firth
2016 The Conjuring 2 as Lorraine Warren
2016 Special Correspondents as Eleanor Finch
2014 The Judge as Samantha Powell
2014 Closer to the Moon as Alice Bercovich
2013 At Middleton as Edith Martin
2013 The Conjuring as Lorraine Warren
2012 Goats as Wendy Whitman
2012 Safe House as Catherine Linklater
2011 Higher Ground as Corinne Walker Director
2011 Source Code as Colleen Goodwin
2010 Henry's Crime as Julie Ivanova
2009 Up in the Air as Alex Goran
2009 Mama's Little Devils: Bad Seeds and Evil Children as Self
2009 The Vintner's Luck as Aurora de Valday
2009 Orphan as Kate
2008 Nothing But the Truth as Erica van Doren
2008 Quid Pro Quo as Fiona Ankany
2008 The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas as Mother
2008 In Tranzit as Natalia
2008 Notes on an American Film Director at Work as Self
2007 Never Forever as Sophie Lee
2007 Joshua as Abby Cairn
2006 Breaking and Entering as Oana
2006 The Hard Easy as Dr. Charlie Brooks
2006 The Departed as Madolyn
2006 Running Scared as Teresa Gazelle
2005 Neverwas as Eleanna
2004 The Manchurian Candidate as Jocelyne Jordan
2004 Iron Jawed Angels as Ruza Wenclawska
2004 Down to the Bone as Irene Morrison
2004 Mind the Gap as Allison Lee
2002 Love in the Time of Money as Greta
2002 Dummy as Lorena Fanchetti
2001 Snow White as Josephine
2001 Dust as Amy
2001 15 Minutes as Daphne Handlova
2000 Autumn in New York as Lisa Tyler
2000 The Opportunists as Miriam Kelly
1998 Return to Paradise as Kerrie
1997 Rose Hill as Emily Elliot