Actress of The Week: Vera Farmiga

Vera Ann Farmiga (/ fɑːrˈmiːɡə /; lahir 6 Agustus 1973) adalah seorang aktris dan produser Amerika.

Farmiga memulai karirnya di atas panggung dalam produksi Broadway asli Taking Sides (1996). Dia membuat debut televisi di serial fantasi Fox Roar (1997), dan debut filmnya di drama-thriller Return to Paradise (1998). Farmiga melakukan debut sebagai sutradara pada tahun 2011 dengan film drama terkenal Higher Ground, di mana ia juga memiliki peran utama.

Terobosan Farmiga terjadi pada 2004 dengan perannya sebagai ibu yang menyimpan kebiasaan obat terlarang dalam drama Down to the Bone. Dia menerima pujian lebih lanjut untuk film drama Nothing But the Truth (2008), dan memenangkan pujian kritis karena bermain Alex Goran dalam drama komedi 2009 Up in the Air, yang dia dinominasikan untuk Golden Globe Award, SAG Award, BAFTA Penghargaan, dan Penghargaan Akademi untuk Aktris Pendukung Terbaik.

Farmiga juga pernah membintangi peran dalam film thriller politik The Manchurian Candidate (2004), drama kriminal The Departed (2006), drama percintaan Never Forever (2007), drama historis The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008), komedi romantis Henry's Crime (2010), thriller fiksi ilmiah Source Code (2011), aksi thriller Safe House (2012), drama hukum The Judge (2014), drama biografi The Front Runner (2018), dan film monster Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019).

Farmiga telah memerankan penyelidik paranormal Lorraine Warren dalam film horor blockbuster The Conjuring (2013), The Conjuring 2 (2016), dan Annabelle Comes Home (2019). Dari 2013 hingga 2017, ia membintangi sebagai Norma Louise Bates dalam serial drama A&E Bates Motel, yang membuatnya mendapatkan nominasi Primetime Emmy Award. Peran-peran ini, bersama dengan Joshua (2007) dan Orphan (2009), melihatnya dijuluki sebagai Scream Queen kontemporer. Untuk penggambarannya sebagai penuntut Elizabeth Lederer di miniseri When They See Us (2019), ia menerima nominasi Primetime Emmy Award.

Film

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
	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
	A Heavenly Vintage	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
	The Nun	Lorraine Warren	Corin Hardy	Archive footage
	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
2020	The Many Saints of Newark	TBA	Alan Taylor	In post-production
	The Conjuring 3	Lorraine Warren	Michael Chaves	Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref
1997	Roar	Catlin	13 episodes
1997	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
2004	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