 Quid Pro Quo (2007)
Character Fiona
Director Carlos Brooks
Status Completed | Info
 In Tranzit (2007)
Character Natalia
Director Tom Roberts
Status Completed | Info
 Never Forever (2007)
Character Sophie
Director Gina Kim
Status Completed | Info
 Joshua (2007)
Character Abby Cairn
Director George Ratliff
Status Completed | Info
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| Buzzine - February 20, 2006 |
Coming to theaters February 23, 2006: For over a decade, Joey Gazelle (Paul Walker) has successfully juggled his conflicting roles as both loving family man and a low-level employee of the Italian mob in New Jersey. However, when Joey ignores the mob's explicit instructions to dispose of a gun used in the fatal shooting of a corrupt cop during a bungled drug buy, he unwittingly puts his entire family in immediate danger. Vera Farmiga plays his wife, Teresa--a woman with more sides to her than anyone could guess.
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| Venice Magazine - December 2005 |
It's been over 4 years since we last met with Vera Farmiga and they've been very good to her. At the time, she was doing publicity for 15 Minutes, an action thriller starring Robert De Niro and Ed Burns in which she played a supporting role of an immigrant hairdresser who witnesses a murder. The actress was in the early stages of really getting noticed at that point, having landed other roles in Autumn in New York with Richard Gere and Winona Ryder, as well as The Opportunists with Christopher Walken. On a strictly visual level, it was easy to see why she was garnering attention from these small parts.
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| Scripps Howard News Service - August 2, 2007 |
Vera Farmiga is both a typical actress (she guest-starred on "Law & Order" early in her career) and an unusual one -- she lives in upstate New York and raises goats for their wool, which she spins and knits.
She has played the daughter of Richard Gere ("Autumn in New York"), Christopher Walken ("The Opportunists") and Jon Voight ("The Manchurian Candidate") and the mother of several young children, the latest of whom is the title character in "Joshua," now in theaters.
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| Esquire - June 2007 |
The Departed garnered four Academy Awards. She's got four movies coming out this year. But instead of sitting poolside at the Roosevelt Hotel or eating Caesar salad at Chateau Marmont, she spends her days herding goats. Is it any wonder Vera Farmiga is a Woman We Love?
Two Nubian goats battle with a pair of Angoras to eat sunflower seeds out of Vera Farmiga's hand. She coos their names -- Zoshya and Fruzia -- hearty Ukrainian names that recall her own Slavic heritage. "We want to breed them," she explains. "They're so horny. You can see it in their eyes. They dilate."
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| MovieWeb - January 25, 2007 |
Director Anthony Minghella takes a break from the epic period films with Breaking and Entering. Set in London's culturally changing landscape, the film stars Jude Law and Juliette Binoche as married strangers who embark on a disastrous affair for different reasons. It's a serious drama with excellent character work by the actresses involved. The female cast members: Juliette Binoche, Vera Farmiga, and Robin Wright Penn, joined Anthony Minghella at a recent press conference here in New York City. They don't share any scenes in the film, so it was the first time that the actresses had met each other. It certainly was an interesting display of different personalities.
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| New York Magazine - January 22, 2007 |
It’s hard enough being a young actress, much less a poster girl for why it’s so hard to be a young actress. “It was terrifying,” says Vera Farmiga, 33, the subject of a New York Times Magazine cover story about the scarcity of meaty roles for movie actresses. But Farmiga, first buzzed-about at Sundance ’04 with Down to the Bone, just appeared in The Departed, and she stars in two Sundance premieres: Joshua, a psychological thriller, and Never Forever, an interracial love story.
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| Everything Jersey - January 21, 2007 |
She has won acting awards at Sundance, and from the L.A. Film Critics and the National Board of Review. More than one person has compared her, without hyperbole, to Meryl Streep. "Fearless," is the word Martin Scorsese used, picking up a New York Film Critics prize for directing her in "The Departed."
"Actually, I'm just very good at hiding my fear," says Vera Farmiga, nursing a cold and a cup of chamomile tea in a New York hotel. "It is terrifying to put yourself out on the line and do what everybody else spends their entire life trying to hide, to portray all the inconsistencies and mysteries and negatives of life. There's always an element of fear in the roles I choose. But I use it as fuel."
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| Philadelphia Inquirer - January 21, 2007 |
It's not really about the hair, but that's a good way to remember. Vera Farmiga, an actress who's been on the brink of big things for years, can look back at the crazy time in 2005 when she was shooting both The Departed, in which she plays a Boston police psychologist, and Breaking and Entering, in which she's Oana, a smoky-voiced London streetwalker, and think about her 'do.
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| New York Post - January 21, 2007 |
Vera Farmiga just faced one of her biggest fears in life - going on Letterman. "It was a last-minute thing. I'm glad it was last-minute, because if I had known, I would have had colitis in apprehension," says the actress the day after her ordeal. "I was mute and catatonic the whole day."
Yet, for all that angst, she admits it went terrifically - par for the course in a year that's seen the actress catapulted into up-and-coming It Girl status. Phrases like "the next Meryl Streep" have been bandied about so much that she's completely unfazed by them now.
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| USA Weekend - January 7, 2007 |
She romanced Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio in "The Departed," and she may be the next Meryl Streep.
"I'm terrified," says Vera Farmiga, when told she has been called the next Meryl Streep. "Besides, isn't Cate Blanchett the next Meryl Streep?"
Sitting cross-legged on a shag rug at a Beverly Hills hotel poolside lounge, Farmiga, 33, admits she is recognized more often these days -- but says fans often think she's someone else: "The baristas at Starbucks think I'm Patricia Arquette. I don't think we look anything alike. It's just a coffee conspiracy."
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| Interview - November 2006 |
In an industry that likes it's women to confrom to certain outmoded ideals, Vera Farmiga is making a career out of neither looking--nor acting--the part
Over the last decade, Vera Farmiga has earned the sort of grand affection of the critical community that many of her peers would (and do) pay people good money to procure. She's been lauded for the ingenuity of her performances in independent films (Dummy, 2003; Mind the Gap, 2004), praised for the intelligence of her work in Hollywood studio flicks (15 Minutes, 2001; The Manchurian Candidate, 2004; Running Scared), and even empathized with for the grace with which she's handled the most dubious of bill-paying TV gigs (Roar, a Xena: Warrior Princess--esque tunic piece which co-starred a then-unknown Heath Ledger).
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| The Hollywood Reporter - September 7, 2004 |
On the day before her birthday last month, Vera Farmiga was coping with discomfort posed by a nasty strain of poison ivy she contracted near her home in upstate New York.
It has been about the only negative turn of a remarkable period that has witnessed her transformation from independent film specialist to highly coveted performer.
Long a vivid actress in movies that never captured a significant audience, such as "Autumn in New York" and "15 Minutes," Farmiga, 31, has shown a nervy, distinct range. She is now striding to the center stage.
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| Backstage dot Com - March 2, 2006 |
Someone at Fox Television clearly has an eye for talent. The network's 1997 fantasy series Roar may have been short-lived, but at least two of its stars have fared well in the past decade. One, Heath Ledger, is a recent Oscar nominee for Brokeback Mountain. The other, Vera Farmiga, is on her way to similar accolades. Hot off a surprise best actress win from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association for her portrayal of a cocaine-addicted housewife in the gritty indie Down to the Bone, Farmiga landed an actor's dream: plum roles in films from Anthony Minghella and Martin Scorsese.
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| Boston Herald - October 1, 2006 |
Among the starry cast of “The Departed,” Vera Farmiga stands out.
As Madolyn, a police department psychiatrist whose romance with one cop unwittingly puts another’s life in danger, she’s the solitary female in this high-testosterone gangster thriller.
But alongside Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Alec Baldwin and Martin Sheen, moviegoers are likely to ask, “Vera who?”
For Farmiga, 33, a native of Passaic County, N.J., this overnight leap into the majors has been a long time coming.
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| JoBlo Interview - February 24, 2006 |
Get ready to see a lot of Vera Farmiga. No, I’m not referring to the short-lived online Running Scared “game” that featured an animated version of Paul Walker’s character from going downtown on her character (it replicates a scene from the film). Rather, I’m referring to the pair of films she’ll be in featuring Oscar-winning filmmakers: The Departed, directed by Martin Scorsese and Breaking and Entering, written and directed by Anthony Minghella. Both roles came as a result of her acclaimed performance in the independent film Down to the Bone. In the meantime, check Vera out in Running Scared, opening today. I got a chance to talk with her last week.
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