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"I can't do Los Angeles. I've always been the anti-Barbie. I don't want to be in a place where almost every woman walks around with puffy lips, little noses and breasts large enough to nourish a small country. As a kid I wanted attention, so I started praying for glasses because everyone had ace vision in my family. Then one day my eyes started going bad and never stopped." 
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Biography
Vera Ann Farmiga was born 6th August 1973 in Passaic County, New Jersey, USA. Second of seven children, Vera was raised in a strict catholic home by Ukrainian immigrant parents, Michael (Mykola) Farmiga and Lyubov (Lyuba) Farmiga. She grew up in an insular Ukrainian American community and hence did not speak English until at the age of six. Vera attended a Ukrainian Catholic school before going to a public school. She was passionate about dancing and toured with a Ukrainian folk-dancing company in her teens.
Vera graduated from Hunderton Central regional high school in 1991 with dreams of becoming an optometrist. She eventually changed her mind and went on to study acting at Syracuse University's School of Performing Arts. Farmiga began her professional acting career on stage in 1996, making her Broadway debut as an understudy in the play Taking Sides. Her stage credits included performances in The Tempest, The Glass Menagerie, Hamlet, and Second-Hand Smoke (1997). Vera's on stage performances caught the eye of television producers and she went on to make her television debut as the female lead, Catlin, opposite Heath Ledger in the short lived Fox series Roar (1997). The show introduced Vera to her future husband, actor Sebastian Roache, whom she married during the same year. The marriage ended in 2005. Vera continued on with television work, appearing in Rose Hill (1997) and making appearances in Law and Order (1998) and Trinity (1998). She also starred in Return to Paradise (1998) opposite Vince Vaughn, Joaquin Phoenix and Anne Heche, catching the eye of both film critics and audiences. In 2000 she went on to film The Opportunists with Christopher Walken and Autumn in New York with Richard Gere and Winona Ryder. Farmiga gained more attention and recognition for her work for the role of Daphne Handlova in 15 Minutes (2001), in which she starred opposite Robert De Niro and Edward Burns. She also appeared in Dust (2001), Show White (2001), Love in the Time of Money (2002) and Dummy (2002) before winning the role of Alex Cross in UC: Undercover, an NBC series, which was unfortunately cancelled after 11 episodes. After the cancellation of the series, Vera Farmiga took a little time off just to return in 2004 with 5 movies and yet another TV show! She starred in Down to the Bone in the role of Irene, which fans still list as one of her best performances to date. The performance earned Vera a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and nominations at Independent Spirit Awards and Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards. Next she pulled off another strong performance in HBO's Iron Jawed Angels opposite Hilary Swank and had a smaller role in In the Gap. She starred in Touching Evil as Detective Susan Branca. The TV movie was so well received that it was turned into a series. Unfortunately this production was cancelled just after six episodes, despite a large fan following. Vera herself went on to star opposite Meryl Streep in The Manchurian Candidate (2004) as Jocelyne Jordan. In 2005 Vera appeared in Neverwas and The Hard Easy. She went on to roles in Breaking and Entering (2006) and the talked-about Running Scared (2006) before making a powerful entrance to Hollywood's A-list as Madolyn in Martin Scorsese's The Departed. 2007 saw Vera in Never Forever and Joshua. What is next to come for the blue eyed beauty are In Tranzit and Quid Pro Quo, both to be released later on this year. "I really don't feel a need to be famous, but I do feel a need to make a difference, to shed light on human emotion through acting. It sounds strange, but I don't recognize myself in the women in most films. And I should be up there somewhere. We all should", she says. With several powerful performances on her belt, a magnetic screen presence and an eye for great roles, one may expect many great things from the talented and extraordinary Vera Farmiga. Last updated on April 4, 2008 |
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