Made a cameo appearance as Lorraine Warren in a mid-credits scene of the horror sequel The Nun II, using a scene cut from The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
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Vera Farmiga
Vera Ann Farmiga is an American actress and singer. She 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…
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entertainment · American actress and singer (born 1973) · television actor · film actor · stage actor · actor · also Vera Farmiga, Vera Ann Farmiga Lorraine Warren, Vera, Farmiga
Born 6 August 1973 · Q264840
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I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame. The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated. Our duty as actors is to remain compassionate and curious. Fame complicates all that.
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No! The other thing, that God brought us together for a reason.
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2018· 1 entry
Farmiga starred as neo-Nazi group leader Shareen Krager in Guy Nattiv's racial drama Skin, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, and portrayed Oletha "Lee" Hart in Jason Reitman's Gary
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2013· 9 entries
“I've gravitated towards independent cinema because you have to work harder in studio scripts to flesh out characters, particularly female ones. They are not as sharply edged, they tend to be quite watery. They are not renderings of women as I know them.”
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When she began portraying Norma Louise Bates, the mother of Norman Bates, in A&E's drama-thriller series Bates Motel
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Starred as Alice Bercovich in Nae Caranfil's Romanian-American comedy-drama Closer to the Moon, based on the events of the Ioanid Gang
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“I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame. The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated. Our duty as actors is to remain compassionate and curious. Fame complicates all that.”
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“No! The other thing, that God brought us together for a reason.”
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“There are some times when I think acting can be a noble profession.”
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“It's just an incredible gift, giving birth. I never felt so empowered, so powerful, so womanly as I did after I gave birth. I felt more feminine than I ever had in my life.”
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“As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character. And that's what used to draw me to scripts – something in a woman that I wanted to defend, something that I recognized or wanted to understand, something that turned my head.”
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“I have a two-year-old who just turned three, and my four-year-old just turned five. I have the same irrational feelings taking them to pre-school. It's this charged combination of stress and joy and anxiety and excitement. When they're away, you've got a sudden loss of purpose and this ever-present fear about the kid's welfare. The departure of our children from our nest is not an easy thing.”
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2010· 2 entries
Was inducted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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Farmiga was offered a lead role in Marc Forster's action biopic Machine Gun Preacher, but declined because she was pregnant
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2009· 2 entries
Co-starred as frequent flyer Alex Goran, opposite George Clooney, in Jason Reitman's comedy-drama Up in the Air
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Farmiga portrayed the lead role of Kate Coleman in Jaume Collet-Serra's psychological thriller Orphan
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2008· 2 entries
When Farmiga was five months pregnant with their first child
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They married on September 13, 2008, when Farmiga was five months pregnant with their first child.
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2004· 1 entry
Had a supporting role as Jocelyne Jordan in the political thriller The Manchurian Candidate, which also starred Denzel Washington and Meryl Streep
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1997· 1 entry
Eloped to the Bahamas and later divorced in 2004
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1973· 1 entry
Born 1973-08-06.
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