Vera Farmiga
This year Farmiga will be working on Martin Scorsese's The Departed and Anthony Minghella's Breaking and Entering. She most recently appeared opposite Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep and Jon Voight in The Manchurian Candidate. She starred in Touching Evil, a television series produced by Bruce Willis and Arnold Rifkin (Die Hard IV, Hart's War) and directed by Allen Hughes (Dead Presidents, Menace to Society) for the USA Network.
At last year's Sundance Film Festival, Farmiga won a Special Jury Prize for her performance in the independent film Down to the Bone, a revelatory drama about a weary working-class mother trapped in drug addiction. The film, which was in the Dramatic Competition also garnered a Directing Award for Debra Granik.
Farmiga also appeared in the HBO miniseries Iron Jawed Angels which co-starred Hilary Swank, Anjelica Huston, Frances O'Connor, and Molly Parker.
Farmiga's film credits include The Hard Easy, Neverwas, Love in the Time of Money, Dummy, Fifteen Minutes, as well as Autumn in New York, and The Opportunists.
Farmiga's television and stage credits include the NBC action series UC: Undercover ABC's "Snow White, and an appearance in Under the Blue Sky at the Williamstown Theatre Festival opposite Annabella Sciorra and Marsha Mason.
A New Jersey native, Vera currently resides in upstate New York.
Vera Farmiga Facts
| Occupation | Actress |
| Birthday | August 6, 1973 (36) |
| Sign | Leo |
| Birthplace | Passaic, New Jersey, USA |