Actress of The Week: Vera Farmiga

Vera Ann Farmiga (/fɑːrˈmiːɡə/ far-MEEG-ə; lahir 6 Agustus 1973) adalah seorang aktris Amerika yang terkenal karena memerankan penyelidik paranormal Lorraine Warren dalam film Conjuring Universe The Conjuring (2013), The Conjuring 2 (2016), Annabelle Comes Home (2019) dan The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021).

Farmiga memulai karir akting profesionalnya di atas panggung dalam produksi asli Broadway dari Taking Sides (1996). Dia membuat debut televisinya di serial petualangan fantasi Fox Roar (1997), dan debut filmnya di drama-thriller Return to Paradise (1998). Terobosan Farmiga datang pada tahun 2004 dengan peran utamanya sebagai pecandu narkoba dalam drama Down to the Bone. Dia menerima pujian lebih lanjut untuk film drama Nothing But the Truth (2008), dan memenangkan pujian kritis untuk membintangi drama komedi 2009 Up in the Air, di mana dia dinominasikan untuk Academy Award untuk Aktris Pendukung Terbaik.

Farmiga membuat debut penyutradaraannya pada tahun 2011 dengan film drama terkenal Tempat yang lebih tinggi, di mana dia juga berperan sebagai pemeran utama. Dia juga berperan dalam film thriller politik The Manchurian Candidate (2004), drama kriminal The Departed (2006), drama sejarah The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008), film thriller fiksi ilmiah Source Code (2011), aksi film thriller Safe House (2012), drama hukum The Judge (2014), drama biografi The Front Runner (2018), film monster Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), dan serial Marvel Cinematic Universe Hawkeye (2021).

Dari 2013 hingga 2017, Farmiga berperan sebagai Norma Louise Bates dalam serial drama A&E Bates Motel, yang membuatnya mendapatkan nominasi Primetime Emmy Award. Pada 2019, ia membintangi miniseri drama When They See Us sebagai Elizabeth Lederer, di mana ia dinominasikan untuk Primetime Emmy Award kedua.

Film

Key

Denotes films that have not yet been released

Year	Title	Role	Director(s)	Notes	Ref
1998	Return to Paradise	Kerrie	Joseph Ruben
2000	The Opportunists	Miriam Kelly	Myles Connell
	Autumn in New York	Lisa Tyler	Joan Chen
2001	15 Minutes	Daphne Handlova	John Herzfeld
	Dust	Amy	Milcho Manchevski
2002	Love in the Time of Money	Greta	Peter Mattei
	Dummy	Lorena Fanchetti	Greg Pritikin
2004	Down to the Bone	Irene Morrison	Debra Granik
	Mind the Gap	Allison Lee	Eric Schaeffer
	The Manchurian Candidate	Jocelyne Jordan	Jonathan Demme
2005	Neverwas	Eleanna	Joshua Michael Stern
2006	Running Scared	Teresa Gazelle	Wayne Kramer
	Breaking and Entering	Oana	Anthony Minghella
	The Hard Easy	Dr. Charlie Brooks	Ari Ryan
	The Departed	Dr. Madolyn Madden	Martin Scorsese
2007	Never Forever	Sophie Lee	Gina Kim	Korean film
	Joshua	Abby Cairn	George Ratliff
2008	Quid Pro Quo	Fiona Ankany	Carlos Brooks
	In Transit	Dr. Natalia	Tom Roberts
	Nothing But the Truth	Erica Van Doren	Rod Lurie
	The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas	Elsa Hoess	Mark Herman
2009	Orphan	Kate Coleman	Jaume Collet-Serra
	The Vintner's Luck	Aurora de Valday	Niki Caro
	Up in the Air	Alex Goran	Jason Reitman
2010	Henry's Crime	Julie Ivanova	Malcolm Venville
2011	Higher Ground	Corinne Walker	Herself	Directorial debut
	Source Code	Colleen Goodwin	Duncan Jones
2012	Goats	Wendy Whitman	Christopher Neil
	Safe House	Catherine Linklater	Daniel Espinosa
2013	At Middleton	Edith Martin	Adam Rodgers
	The Conjuring	Lorraine Warren	James Wan
	Closer to the Moon	Alice Bercovich	Nae Caranfil
2014	The Judge	Samantha Powell	David Dobkin
2016	Special Correspondents	Eleanor Finch	Ricky Gervais
	The Conjuring 2	Lorraine Warren	James Wan
	Burn Your Maps	Alise Firth	Jordan Roberts
	The Escape	Dr. Nora Phillips	Neill Blomkamp	Short film
2017	Unspoken	—	Emma Zurcher-Long Geneva Peschka Julia Ngeow	Documentary Executive producer
2018	The Commuter	Joanna	Jaume Collet-Serra
	Boundaries	Laura Jaconi	Shana Feste
	The Front Runner	Oletha "Lee" Hart	Jason Reitman
	Skin	Shareen Krager	Guy Nattiv
2019	Captive State	Jane Doe	Rupert Wyatt
	Godzilla: King of the Monsters	Dr. Emma Russell	Michael Dougherty
	Annabelle Comes Home	Lorraine Warren	Gary Dauberman
2021	The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It	Lorraine Warren	Michael Chaves
	The Many Saints of Newark	Livia Soprano	Alan Taylor
TBA	Inappropriate Behavior		Tony Goldwyn	Filming
TBA	Caste		Ava DuVernay	Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref
1997	Roar	Catlin	13 episodes
	Rose Hill	Emily Elliot	Television film
1998	Law & Order	Lindsay Carson	Episode: "Expert"
2001	Snow White: The Fairest of Them All	Queen Josephine	Television film
2001–2002	UC: Undercover	Alex Cross	13 episodes
2004	Iron Jawed Angels	Ruza Wenclawska	Television film
	Touching Evil	Detective Susan Branca	12 episodes
2013–2017	Bates Motel	Norma Louise Bates	50 episodes Also producer; 40 episodes
2018	Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams	The Candidate	Episode: "Kill All Others"
2019	When They See Us	Elizabeth Lederer	2 episodes
2021	Halston	Adele	Episode: "The Sweet Smell of Success"
	Hawkeye	Eleanor Bishop	6 episodes
2022	Five Days at Memorial	Dr. Anna Pou	8 episodes

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