Biography
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 Str...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Conjuring: Last Rites
2025
as Lorraine Warren
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren take on one last terrifying case involving mysterious entities they must confront.

Ezra
2024
as Grace
Stand-up comedian Max Bernal lives with his father Stan while struggling to co-parent his autistic son Ezra with his ex-wife. When forced to confront ...

Origin
2023
as Kate Medina
While investigating the global phenomenon of caste and its dark influence on society, a journalist faces unfathomable personal loss and uncovers the b...

The Nun II
2023
as Lorraine Warren
In 1956 France, a priest is violently murdered, and Sister Irene begins to investigate. She once again comes face-to-face with a powerful evil.

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye
2022
as Self - Eleanor Bishop
Join the likes of Jeremy Renner, Hailee Steinfeld, Florence Pugh, and Vincent D’Onofrio as they reveal how Marvel Studios’ “Hawkeye” was conceived and...

Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
2021
as Eleanor Bishop (archive footage)
Explore the Disney+ series of the MCU—past, present and future!

The Many Saints of Newark
2021
as Livia Soprano
Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark, N.J., history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters start to rise ...

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
2021
as Lorraine Warren
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren encounter what would become one of the most sensational cases from their files. The fight for the soul...

Faith & Fear: The Conjuring Universe
2020
as Self
Before The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It began filming, a bishop from the Order of Exorcists was called to bless the studio, cast, and crew. This...

Skin
2019
as Shareen
A destitute young man, raised by racist skinheads and notorious among white supremacists, turns his back on hatred and violence to transform his life,...

Annabelle Comes Home
2019
as Lorraine Warren
Determined to keep Annabelle from wreaking more havoc, demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren bring the possessed doll to the locked artifacts room in t...

Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019
as Emma Russell
Follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the migh...

Captive State
2019
as Jane Doe
Nearly a decade after occupation by an extraterrestrial force, the lives of a Chicago neighborhood on both sides of the conflict are explored. In a wo...

The Front Runner
2018
as Lee Hart
Gary Hart, former Senator of Colorado, becomes the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1987. Hart's intelligence, charisma and ...

The Nun
2018
as Lorraine Warren
A priest with a haunted past and a novice on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate the death of a young nun in Romani...

Boundaries
2018
as Laura Jaconi
Single mom Laura, along with her awkward 14 year-old son Henry is forced to drive Jack, her estranged, care-free pot dealing father across country aft...

The Commuter
2018
as Joanna
A businessman, on his daily commute home, gets unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy that threatens not only his life but the lives of those ...

The Escape
2016
as Dr. Nora Phillips
After the controversial disappearance of their Chief Medical Officer, a shadowy bio genetics company is under siege by the FBI for secretly cloning hu...

Burn Your Maps
2016
as Alise Firth
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 epipha...

The Conjuring 2
2016
as Lorraine Warren
Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.

Special Correspondents
2016
as Eleanor Finch
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 A...

The Judge
2014
as Samantha Powell
A successful lawyer returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral only to discover that his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of mur...

Closer to the Moon
2014
as Alice Bercovich
A Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of bank robbers to pull off a heist by convincing everyone at the scene of the crime that they ar...

At Middleton
2013
as Edith Martin
George is an uptight surgeon with a rebellious teenage son. Edith is a free spirit with an overachieving teenage daughter. When they meet during an ad...

The Conjuring
2013
as Lorraine Warren
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful ...

Goats
2012
as Wendy Whitman
Having a self-absorbed New Age mother and an estranged father has meant 15-year-old Ellis Whitman has grown up relying on an unconventional guardian: ...

Safe House
2012
as Catherine Linklater
A dangerous CIA renegade resurfaces after a decade on the run. When the safe house he's remanded to is attacked by mercenaries, a rookie operative esc...

Higher Ground
2011
as Corinne Walker
Vera Farmiga's directorial debut, HIGHER GROUND, depicts the landscape of a tight-knit spiritual community thrown off-kilter when one of their own beg...

Higher Ground
2011
Director
Vera Farmiga's directorial debut, HIGHER GROUND, depicts the landscape of a tight-knit spiritual community thrown off-kilter when one of their own beg...

Source Code
2011
as Colleen Goodwin
When decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chic...

Henry's Crime
2010
as Julie Ivanova
An aimless man is sent to prison for a crime he did not commit, an ex-con targets the same bank he was sent away for robbing.

Up in the Air
2009
as Alex Goran
Corporate downsizing expert Ryan Bingham spends his life in planes, airports, and hotels, but just as he’s about to reach a milestone of ten million f...

Mama's Little Devils: Bad Seeds and Evil Children
2009
as Self
Featurette on the 2009 horror film Orphan.

The Vintner's Luck
2009
as Aurora de Valday
A fantasy romance set in 19th century France. The film revolves around Sobran, a young peasant winemaker, and the three important figures in his life ...

Orphan
2009
as Kate
After losing their baby, a married couple adopt 9-year old Esther, who may not be as innocent as she seems.

Nothing But the Truth
2008
as Erica van Doren
When reporter Rachel Armstrong writes a story that reveals the identity of a covert CIA operative, the government demands that Rachel reveal her sourc...

Quid Pro Quo
2008
as Fiona Ankany
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-realizati...

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
2008
as Mother
When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of t...

In Tranzit
2008
as Natalia
Nazi POWs suspected of heinous acts are locked up in a Soviet women's prison run by vengeful female guards. To weed out the guilty, the innocent must ...

Notes on an American Film Director at Work
2008
as Self
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas follows his friend, film director Martin Scorsese, and his cast and crew, through various locations during the shooting of his f...

Never Forever
2007
as Sophie Lee
When an American woman begins a dangerous relationship with an attractive immigrant worker, in order to save her marriage, she finds her true self.

Joshua
2007
as Abby Cairn
The arrival of a newborn girl causes the gradual disintegration of the Cairn family; particularly for 9-year-old Joshua, an eccentric boy whose proper...

Breaking and Entering
2006
as Oana
Set in a blighted, inner-city neighbourhood of London, Breaking and Entering examines an affair which unfolds between a successful British landscape a...

The Hard Easy
2006
as Dr. Charlie Brooks
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...

The Departed
2006
as Madolyn
To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewi...

Running Scared
2006
as Teresa Gazelle
A low-ranking thug is entrusted by his boss to dispose of a gun that killed corrupt cops, but things spiral out of control when the gun ends up in wro...

Neverwas
2005
as Eleanna
Zach Riley is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, Millwood. What h...

The Manchurian Candidate
2004
as Jocelyne Jordan
Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow s...

Iron Jawed Angels
2004
as Ruza Wenclawska
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.

Down to the Bone
2004
as Irene Morrison
A woman stuck in a stale marriage struggles to raise her children and manage her secret drug habit. But when winter comes to her small town, her balan...

Mind the Gap
2004
as Allison Lee
Five seemingly unrelated people decide to take huge risks in their personal lives in an effort to find happiness.

Love in the Time of Money
2002
as Greta
New York serves as a backdrop for a cast of characters in search of love, lust or lucre including a woman who makes awkward moves on the man renovatin...

Dummy
2002
as Lorena Fanchetti
An ex-office worker becomes a ventriloquist, leading to a date with his unemployment counselor; but his quirky family and a gauche female friend may t...

Snow White
2001
as Josephine
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 ...

Dust
2001
as Amy
Two parallel tales of redemption, a century apart. In the New York storyline, Edge hunts for Angela's gold to pay back a debt, and gradually grows clo...

15 Minutes
2001
as Daphne Handlova
When Eastern European criminals Oleg and Emil come to New York City to pick up their share of a heist score, Oleg steals a video camera and starts fil...

Autumn in New York
2000
as Lisa Tyler
Will Keane, a Manhattan restaurateur, is content with his playboy lifestyle until he meets Charlotte Fielding, a free-spirited young woman. Together t...

The Opportunists
2000
as Miriam Kelly
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 ...

Return to Paradise
1998
as Kerrie
Lewis, Sheriff and Tony are three friends vacationing in Malaysia. Sheriff and Tony eventually leave to pursue careers in New York, but Lewis stays be...

The Butterfly Dance
1998
as Diane
Diane is a young dancer whose quiet life is disrupted by the presence of a mysterious and unsettling gardener. As strange and sinister events unfold, ...

Rose Hill
1997
as Emily Elliot
Four orphan boys running from the law in New York stumble upon a baby in a carriage. They decide to head west and take the baby which they name Mary R...
The Leader
N/A
as Bonnie Nettles
In 1997, thirty-nine members of the American cult known as "Heaven's Gate" committed the largest mass suicide to ever take place on American soil. Thi...
The Salamander Lives Twice
N/A
as Goggy
An injured man with an impenetrable briefcase and no memory is found on the shoreline of a remote island by the last remaining members of a once prosp...
Bad Bloom
N/A
The horror fairytale will portray a family living in isolation on a remote island to keep an unknown creature at bay. Their tightly-guarded reality be...

Billion Dollar Spy
N/A
as Natasha Tolkachev
Set against the high-stakes backdrop of the late Cold War, Adolf Tolkachev, an ordinary man who risks everything to pass thousands of pages of top-sec...
Bad Bloom
N/A
Producer
The horror fairytale will portray a family living in isolation on a remote island to keep an unknown creature at bay. Their tightly-guarded reality be...