Biography of Vera Farmiga

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. And her role in the cinema is proof of this.

In the photo: Vera Farmiga, she was the first to come up with an original way not to appear in castings - she just reads the script, and then sends the producers of the video with her own vision of what her heroine should be. Childhood, youth, family Vera was born in the summer of the year in the family of Ukrainian immigrants Mikhail Farmigi and Savior Lyubomira. At the time of birth, her parents were already raising her older brother Victor, and after her five more children were born - Stefan, Nadezhda, Alexander, Larisa and Taisiya.

The youngest of the girls later became known as actress Taiss Farmig. A large family lived in the Ukrainian community of Erwington Clifton New Jersey. The father was a system analyst, and later retrained in a landscape designer, mother taught at school. Vera Farmig in the youth of Verina Grandmother Nadia and grandfather Theodore on the maternal line met during the Second World War in German Carlsfeld, then emigrated to the United States.

Vera talked about her parents in an interview: my mother was born in Germany, and his father was seven years old when he left Ukraine and lived after that for twelve years in Argentina. In the USA, I came to the Ukrainian community here very friendly, and since childhood I taught the Ukrainian language, literature, music and dancing. Before entering school, Vera did not know the English language, since houses with her talked exclusively in the language of their ancestors.

Later, the girl began to study at the Greek Catholic School of John the Baptist, became a member of the People's Ensemble “Syzingly”, with whom she traveled all over America, played women's football as part of the Scout team “Plast”. Vera Farmiga and Taissa Farmig-she graduated from the schools in the year, and the tour of the tour helped her to cope with shyness: from childhood Vera was a short-sighted, she wore glasses, complex because of this and even gathered to become an ophthalmologist to help people with vision problems, but fate ordered differently.

Starting to speak with the ensemble, she changed her glasses to contact lenses and was pleasantly surprised by changes in appearance. Once Vera played a major role in the school play “Vampire”, after which she decided to connect her life with the stage and began to study at the University of Siracuse, on a course of fine performing art. On the student stage, she managed to play the great French singer in the production of Bravo, Piaf!

Vera graduated from the theater and cinema in the year, then her debut took place in the production of Taking Sides on Broadway. Next, the novice actress played Miranda in the “storm”, appeared in the performances “Glass Malleant” Laura Wingsfield, “Passive Smoking” Linda. In parallel, she starred as a former Caitlin slave in the Ryov drama-fantasy, and then played Carrie in the Threal “Strendering to Paradise”, where the main roles were played by Vince Won and Joakin Phoenix.

There she played Lisa Tyler, the daughter of the screen hero Gira, trying to establish relations with her father. The frame from the film “Autumn in New York” Vera was so convincing in this swarm that in the criminal comedy, the apostates were entrusted to her the role of the main character, Miriam Kelly, daughter of Viktor Christopher Waken. Vera Farmiga and Christopher Waken her next partner on the set was Robert de Niro in the thriller “15 minutes of glory”, where Vera embodied the Czech emigrant Daphni Khandlov on the screen.

I must say, she was in a hurry to build a film career, preferring the theater uninteresting and passing scenarios. She brilliantly played Helen in the production of David Eldridge “under the Blue Heaven”, and then shot in the comedy “Doll” along with Edrien Brody. The frame from the film “Doll” of the actress’s skill was highly appreciated by the audience and critics after the release of the drama “Until the last line” in this film Farmiga appeared in the image of the Mother's Mother-in-law Iren Morrison and played, as they say, “to break the template”.

Vera Farmiga in the film “Until the last line” in the year the actress was awarded the Association of Critics of Los Angeles, and also received a nomination for the “Independent Spirit” Award. The fact that success was not accidental, Vera proved in the next film, where Martin Scorsese himself took her after watching her video instead of the usual casting.

A second picture called “apostates” appeared on the track record of PharmiGi, but this time the status and genre was completely different - a dramatic thriller. In her performance, police psychiatrist Madoline Madden looked very convincing and truthful. Vera Farmiga in the film “Speaking” for this work together with Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson and Matt Damon, the actress was awarded the nomination for the scriptwriter guild in the “Best Acting” Guild, and personally for the Empire Prize in the year.

In the same year, the painting itself won Oscar in four nominations at once. Immediately after this, Vera starred in the Russian-British project “By Stage”, where John Malkovich, Evgeny Mironov and Ingeborg Dapkunaite starred with her. Then the actress got the main role in the horror film “The Child of Darkness”, playing the mother of the girl who sows death around her.Subsequently, faith so often appeared in horror films that she received the unspoken status of the “Queen of Scream”.

The frame from the film “The Child of Darkness” was a bright duet with a farmigi with George Clooney in the tragicomic film “I would be in the sky”, after which the actress was accepted as members of the Academy of Cinematic Arts and Sciences. Vera spoke about her partner as a man with an excellent sense of humor and amazing energy. Vera Farmiga and George Clooney in the year the actress tried herself as a director and took up the script based on the memoirs of Caroline Briggs, which described the events of her life that occurred for thirty years: after the woman, a woman miraculously survived in a car accident, she and her husband became believers and entered a religious commune.

Vera recalled: I was invited to play the role of Caroline Briggs, and first I read her memoirs. Struck by the honesty and frankness of Caroline and not without humor by the narrative. At my request, Caroline became the co -author of the script, but I also plunged into it with my head. And then, when the project was stalled, she took on his directing. This film, “Heaven and Earth”, became the first and so far the last directorial experience of Farmigi and quite successful - the picture was nominated for the Gotham Award.

The main character was played by the actress herself, Caroline in her youth - her younger sister Taiss. The trailer in the psychological film of horrors “The Spell” Vera brilliantly played the role of Lorrain Warren, the parapsychologist and clairvoyant, who believes in God and leading the struggle with evil. The plot of the horror is the real history of the Peron family, who claimed that they were researchers of the spirits and faced them personally, living in the seventies in the house on Rhizen.

The actress, preparing for the role, investigated their work, read books on demonology and admitted that at some moments she was very scared. And for several years she starred in the series “Motor Bates” based on Psycho, Hitchcock, where the mother of the protagonist played - the powerful norm of Bates. The audience greatly appreciated her duet with Freddie Haimor. Lee, a woman who endlessly forgave her husband Gary Hugh Jackman his love adventures, and because of which he twice lost the opportunity to occupy the highest post of America.

A fragment with Liam Nison and Patrick Wilson Vera starred in the mystical drama “Passenger”, and for the role of prosecutor Elizabeth the Leader in the dramatic series “When they see us” was nominated for Emmy in the year. The personal life of Vera Farmigi is the Ukrainian beauty, who played in films with the most famous Hollywood womanizers, first married in the year, playing a wedding in the Bahamas.

Her husband became French actor Sebastian Rocher, her television series “Roal”. Sebastian Roche - the first husband of Vera Farmigi together they lived for more than seven years, but in the year Vera met the musician Renna Hawka and preferred his wife. Divorce followed. According to Farmigi, she fell in love with Renna at first sight and was ready to give birth to children from him from the first minute, while they did not have the heirs in marriage with Sebastian.

Nevertheless, they met for four years before they got married. Hawki himself grew up in a large family and they have at least seventeen offspring with faith in jesting plans. The actress admits that her husband is not only a musician, but also a carpenter who became them in order to be always next to his wife and children when she is offered a new project.

Vera Farmiga now in the year the new project for faith has become the film-conjure film “Cland Soprano Clan”. It was shot by director Alan Taylor called "All the Saints of Newark." In it, the actress appeared in the image of Libya Soprano, the mother of the protagonist, the future mafiosi Tony Soprano of the young Tony is played by the son of James Gandolfini - Michael.

By the will of the devil. " Their sensational business, starting as a struggle for the soul of a young man, turned out to be a demon’s suspect in a terrifying murder. Important events in life year: she graduated from the studio of fine performing art at the University of Syracuse. She made her debut on a professional scene as Princess Miranda in the play “Storm”.

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