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Vera Farmiga

Vera Ann Farmiga (/fɑːrˈmiːɡə/ far-MEE-gə; born August 6, 1973) is an American actress. Farmiga 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 Departed (2006), and the historical drama The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008). She was also established as a scream queen for her performances in the horror films Joshua (2007) and Orphan (2009). For her performance in the comedy-drama Up in the Air (2009), Farmiga was nominated for an Academy Award and other accolades. She then made her directorial debut with the drama film Higher Ground (2011), in which she had the leading role. She starred in the thrillers Source Code (2011) and Safe House (2012), before furthering her scream queen status by portraying paranormal investigator Lorraine Warren in the Conjuring Universe films The Conjuring (2013), The Conjuring 2 (2016), Annabelle Comes Home (2019), and The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021). She also starred in the legal drama The Judge (2014), the biographical drama The Front Runner (2018), the monster film Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), and the crime drama The Many Saints of Newark (2021). On television, Farmiga received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for playing Norma Louise Bates in the A&E drama horror series Bates Motel (2013–2017) and starring in the Netflix miniseries When They See Us (2019). She also appears in the Disney+ miniseries Hawkeye (2021), set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the Apple TV+ miniseries Five Days at Memorial (2022). Description above from the Wikipedia article Vera Farmiga, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

2025
The Conjuring: Last Rites

as Lorraine Warren

Movie
2021
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It

as Lorraine Warren

Movie
2019
Annabelle Comes Home

as Lorraine Warren

Movie
2019
Godzilla: King of the Monsters

as Emma Russell

Movie
2018
The Nun

as Lorraine Warren

Movie
2016
The Conjuring 2

as Lorraine Warren

Movie
2014
The Judge

as Samantha Powell

Movie
2013
The Conjuring

as Lorraine Warren

Movie
2012
Safe House

as Catherine Linklater

Movie
2011
Source Code

as Colleen Goodwin

Movie
2009
Up in the Air

as Alex Goran

Movie
2006
The Departed

as Madolyn

Movie
2004
The Manchurian Candidate

as Jocelyne Jordan

Movie
2025
Boots

as Barbara Cope

TV Show