• Has six siblings, Vera is the second oldest of seven.

• Daughter of Ukrainian immigrants.

• Toured with a folk-dancing company in her teens.

• Didn’t learn English untill she was six years old.

• Was raised in an insular Ukranian community in Passaic, New Jersey.

• Graduated from Hunterdon Central Regional High School: Class of 1991.

• Graduated from Syracuse University.

• Used to wear contact lenses, she told us on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” , July 19, 2007), that she has had Lasik eye surgery.

• Grew up in a Ukranian-speaking enclave in New Jersey.

• Ex-husband Sebastian Roche co-starred with Vera on Roar and they eloped to Bahamas to get married when the show ended in 1997.

• During high school, she went from wanting to be a shepherdess, to an ophthalmologist, a music therapist, and a concert pianist.

• Last name pronounced far-MEE-guh.

• Attended Syracuse University with actors Taye Diggs, Larissa Thurston, and producer Terry Dinan.

• Was member of the dramatic jury at the Sundance Film Festival in 2005.

• Her husband Renn Hawkey plays in the band ‘Deadsy’.

• Gave birth to her first child at age 35, son Fynn Hawkey on January 15, 2009.

• Returned to work two months after giving birth to her son Fynn in order to begin filming Up in the Air (2009).

• A body double was used during her nude scene in Up in the Air (2009) as she had just recently given birth to her son Fynn.

• Confirmed that she was pregnant with her second child in May 15, 2010.

• Gave birth to her second child at age 37, daughter Gytta Lubov Hawkey on November 4, 2010.

• Was five months pregnant with her daughter Gytta when she completed filming on Higher Ground (2011).

• Returned to work three months after giving birth to her daughter Gytta in order to begin filming Goats (2011).

• Sister of Taissa Farmiga. She is known for playing Violet Harmon on FX’s American Horror Story.