Vera Farmiga

Date of Birth: 06 Aug 1973
Country: USA
Total Credits at Criticker: 66 (Actor), 1 (Director)
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Steven Schoichet (Brody) is browbeaten at every turn, by his family, his dead-end job, the faceless suburb where he still lives at home. That is until he decides to make a change. Ventriloquism. Hey, a dream's a dream. (Artisan Entertainment)
In this quintessentially metropolitan sexual roundelay, set at the height of the Nasdaq boom, nine New Yorkers representing a cross section of society are linked by romance and commerce, and often both. (Quad Cinema)
As the entire nation watches the presidential campaign hurtle towards Election Day, one soldier races to uncover the conspiracy behind it -- a conspiracy that seeks to destroy democracy itself. (Paramount Pictures)
A story of five seemingly unrelated people, each of whom has profound pain, a deep desire, tremendous drive and a need for forgiveness, whether of themselves, their parents, their ex-lovers, or the Gods they believe in. Throughout the story, their lives thematically intertwine though they never meet, until the end of the film when, through different circumstances, they all end up in New York and their lives and the story gains it's meaning and resolve. (Five Minutes Before the Miracle)
Vic is a struggling auto mechanic with a safe-cracking past and a lot of debt. His girlfriend runs a bar and offers to loan him the money she's saved for remodeling, but Vic is reluctant to take it. When a long-lost cousin from Ireland shows up on his doorstep, the two team up for one last heist. (imdb)
A thriller seen through an eye-popping new lens - that of the media's hunt for shocking imagery, no matter the cost. In 15 Minutes, as the cops chase the murderers, the media chases the cops, and the whole thing fuels an escalating firestorm. (New Line Cinema)
Irene (Farmiga) is a working class mother living in upstate New York. She struggles to keep her marriage together and raise two sons while keeping her cocaine addiction a secret. After a series of nearly fatal mishaps, and finally hoping to make a change in her life, she decides to check herself into a rehab center. There, she meets and falls in love with a fellow reformed addict (Hugh Dillon)... (Down to the Bone Productions)
In order to save his family, a low-level mobster (Walker) must recover a gun used in a mob hit before it's found by his bosses or the cops. (New Line Cinema)
Two friends must choose whether to help a third friend who was arrested in Malaysia for drug possession (imdb)
The lives of two cops: Colin Sullivan, smart and ambitious, appears to be on the fast track in the Massachusetts State Police Department, whose prime target is powerful Irish mob boss Frank Costello. Billy Costigan, street-smart and tough, is purported to have a violent temper that costs him his badge...
A story about theft, both criminal and emotional, Breaking & Entering follows a disparate group of long-term Londoners and new arrivals whose lives intersect in the inner-city area of King's Cross. (The Weinstein Company)
Joshua is the tale of Brad and Abby Cairn, perfect Manhattan parents in a perfect Manhattan apartment whose perfect life begins to crack after the birth of their second child Lily. Shortly after Lily arrives home, a dark side of prodigy son Joshua slowly begins to reveal itself.
(Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Iron Jawed Angels (2004) - TV Movie
Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote. (imdb)
A well-educated psychiatrist (Eckhart) leaves an academic career to work at an institution where his father (Nolte), a novelist, lived before writing a renowned children's book. Acclimating to his position, he encounters a schizophrenic (McKellen) who helps him to discover the book's secrets and his place in the story. (imdb)
A semi-paralyzed radio reporter is sent out to investigate a story that leads him into an odd subculture and on a journey of disturbing self-realization. (imdb)
When an American woman begins a dangerous relationship with an attractive immigrant worker, in order to save her marriage, she finds her true self. (imdb)
Set during World War II, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences. (imdb)
In Washington, D.C., a female reporter faces a possible jail sentence for outing a CIA agent and refusing to reveal her source.
The film tells the story of German prisoners of war who are mistakenly taken to a Russian transit women's prison, which temporarily contains women before they are sent to the Gulag. The prison's wardens are women, who want to take revenge of the German soldiers who killed their loved ones during the war. As time passes, the female wardens overcome their hatred for the prisoners and begin to treat them as ordinary people, including engaging in intimate relationships with them.
A husband and wife who recently lost their baby adopt a 9-year-old girl who is not nearly as innocent as she claims to be
Ryan Bingham is a corporate downsizing expert whose cherished life on the road is threatened just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and just after he's met the frequent-traveler woman of his dreams.
Snow White (2001) - TV Movie
Snow White's mother dies during childbirth, leaving baby Snow and father John for dead on an icy field, who then receives a visit from one of Satan's representatives, granting him three wishes. (imdb)
In 19th century France, a peasant winemaker endeavors to create the perfect vintage. (imdb)
Two separate teams of jewel thieves, one low-rent and one upscale, both desperate, converge on the same score at the exact same time, and a simple job turns out very complicated and very bloody. (imdb)
An action thriller centered on a soldier who wakes up in the body of an unknown man and discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. (imdb)
Fifteen-year-old Ellis is getting ready to leave his luxurious home in the foothills of Tucson for his freshman year at Gates Academy, an East Coast prep school. This means leaving behind Wendy, his flaky, new age mother and the only real father he has ever known, Goat Man. (imdb)
A young CIA agent is tasked with looking after a fugitive in a safe house. But when the safe house is attacked, he finds himself on the run with his charge. (imdb)
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives.
A man and a woman fall in love while taking their kids on a college admissions tour. (imdb)
Big city lawyer Hank Palmer returns to his childhood home where his father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder. Hank sets out to discover the truth and, along the way, reconnects with his estranged family. (imdb)
Bates Motel (2013) - TV Series
"Bates Motel" is a contemporary prequel to the genre-defining film "Psycho," and gives a portrayal of how Norman Bates' (Freddie Highmore) psyche unravels through his teenage years. Fans discover the dark, twisted backstory of Norman Bates and how deeply intricate his relationship with his mother, Norma (Vera Farmiga), truly is. (imdb)
Touching Evil (2004) - TV Series
Returning from a year-long psychological leave of absence after surviving an almost-fatal gunshot wound to the head, a detective is assigned to the FBI's new Organized and Serial Crime Unit. (imdb)
A radio journalist and his technician get in over their heads when they hatch a scheme to fake their own kidnapping during a rebel uprising in South America and hide out in New York instead. (imdb)
Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits. (imdb)
A family in emotional turmoil is taken by surprise in this quirky adventure where an eccentric 8-year-old American boy, Wes, has an existential epiphany - He believes that he is in fact a Mongolian goat herder. When Wes befriends a similarly displaced Indian immigrant they both decide it's their destiny to connect the child's dream to his reality through the use of crowdfunding. (imdb)
A businessman is caught up in a criminal conspiracy during his daily commute home. (imdb)
Laura and her son Henry are forced to drive her estranged, pot-dealing, carefree father Jack across country after being kicked out of a nursing home. (imdb)
Set in a Chicago neighborhood nearly a decade after an occupation by an extra-terrestrial force, Captive State explores the lives on both sides of the conflict - the collaborators and dissidents.
A priest with a haunted past and a novitiate on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate the death of a young nun in Romania and confront a malevolent force in the form of a demonic nun. (imdb)
American Senator Gary Hart's presidential campaign in 1988 is derailed when he's caught in a scandalous love affair.
A destitute young man, raised by racist skinheads and notorious among white supremacists, turns his back on hatred and violence to transform his life, with the help of a black activist and the woman he loves. (imdb)
The crypto-zoological agency Monarch faces off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the three-headed King Ghidorah. (imdb)
When They See Us (2019) - TV Mini-Series
Chronicle the true story of a notorious case of five black teenagers who were convicted of a rape they did not commit. (imdb)
Determined to keep Annabelle from wreaking more havoc, demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren bring the possessed doll to the locked artifacts room in their home, placing her "safely" behind sacred glass and enlisting a priest's holy blessing. But an unholy night of horror awaits as Annabelle awakens the evil spirits in the room, who all set their sights on a new target--the Warrens' ten-year-old daughter, Judy, and her friends. (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Halston (2021) - TV Mini-Series
From designing Jackie Kennedy's "pillbox" hat, to a blockbuster deal with J.C. Penney, this miniseries follows the life of the designer Halston. Adapted from the biography be Steven Gaines.
"The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It" reveals a chilling story of terror, murder and unknown evil that shocked even experienced real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. One of the most sensational cases from their files, it starts with a fight for the soul of a young boy, then takes them beyond anything they'd ever seen before, to mark the first time in U.S. history that a murder suspect would claim demonic possession as a defense. (rottentomatoes.com)
A look at the formative years of New Jersey gangster, Tony Soprano. (imdb)
Hawkeye (2021) - TV Mini-Series
Former Avenger Clint Barton has a seemingly simple mission: get back to his family for Christmas. Possible? Maybe with the help of Kate Bishop, a 22-year-old archer with dreams of becoming a Super Hero. The two are forced to work together when a presence from Barton's past threatens to derail far more than the festive spirit (imdb.com).
Roar (1997) - TV Series
Conor is the orphaned heir of one of the many tribal leaders of hopelessly divided Hibernia (ancient Ireland). With his faithful but unenthusiastic servant and protector Fergus he wanders trough the island, fighting injustice and aspiring to unite the druidic, yet internecine Celts in order to free the country from Roman rule.
- First You Dream, Then You Die (2013) - Season 1
- Nice Town You Picked, Norma... (2013) - Season 1
- What's Wrong with Norman (2013) - Season 1
- Trust Me (2013) - Season 1
- Ocean View (2013) - Season 1
- The Truth (2013) - Season 1
- The Man in Number 9 (2013) - Season 1
- A Boy and His Dog (2013) - Season 1
- Underwater (2013) - Season 1
- Midnight (2013) - Season 1
- Gone But Not Forgotten (2014) - Season 2
- Shadow of a Doubt (2014) - Season 2
- Caleb (2014) - Season 2
- Check-Out (2014) - Season 2
- The Escape Artist (2014) - Season 2
- Plunge (2014) - Season 2
- Presumed Innocent (2014) - Season 2
- Meltdown (2014) - Season 2
- The Box (2014) - Season 2
- The Immutable Truth (2014) - Season 2
- A Death in the Family (2015) - Season 3
- The Arcanum Club (2015) - Season 3
- Persuasion (2015) - Season 3
- Unbreak-Able (2015) - Season 3
- The Deal (2015) - Season 3
- Norma Louise (2015) - Season 3
- The Last Supper (2015) - Season 3
- The Pit (2015) - Season 3
- Crazy (2015) - Season 3
- Unconscious (2015) - Season 3
- A Danger to Himself and Others (2016) - Season 4
- Goodnight, Mother (2016) - Season 4
- Til Death Do You Part (2016) - Season 4
- Lights of Winter (2016) - Season 4
- Refraction (2016) - Season 4
- The Vault (2016) - Season 4
- There's No Place Like Home (2016) - Season 4
- Unfaithful (2016) - Season 4
- Forever (2016) - Season 4
- Norman (2016) - Season 4
- Dark Paradise (2017) - Season 5
- The Convergence of the Twain (2017) - Season 5
- Bad Blood (2017) - Season 5
- Hidden (2017) - Season 5
- Dreams Die First (2017) - Season 5
- Marion (2017) - Season 5
- Inseparable (2017) - Season 5
- The Body (2017) - Season 5
- Visiting Hours (2017) - Season 5
- The Cord (2017) - Season 5
Five Days at Memorial (2022) - TV Mini-Series
Doctors and nurses at the intensive care unit of a New Orleans' hospital struggle with treating patients during Hurricane Katrina when the facility is without power for 5 days.
The unspoken system that has shaped America and chronicles how lives today are defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.
- Never Meet Your Heroes (2021) - Season 1
- Hide and Seek (2021) - Season 1
- Echoes (2021) - Season 1
- Partners, Am I Right? (2021) - Season 1
- Ronin (2021) - Season 1
- So This Is Christmas? (2021) - Season 1
EZRA centers on comedian Max co-parenting autistic son Ezra with ex-wife Jenna. Faced with crucial decisions about Ezra's future, Max and Ezra go on a life-changing cross-country road trip.
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren take on one last terrifying case involving mysterious entities they must confront. (imdb)
UC: Undercover (2001) - TV Series
A federal team takes down elite criminals across the nation, led by Frank Donovan with undercover agents Jake Shaw and Alex Cross running surveillance ops. (imdb)