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  • New mum Farmiga needed Up in the Air role - 4 March 2010
    -Vera Farmiga was desperate to join the cast of Up In The Air despite giving birth just two weeks before filming - because she needed the money.- -The actress welcomed baby son Fynn, now a year old, days before she was due to begin playing George Clooney's lover in th

Vera Farmiga - what members say


  • Running Scared
  • Running Scared review by jamatthews from Reading
    Rated - 3.0 stars Marmite on film 5 August 2008
    ...ot or character development. Unneeded. That said, I enjoyed the pace, I love Vera Farmiga and the storyline kept me interested. It took me a long time to 'rate' this fil...   Read customer review
  • Breaking And Entering
  • Breaking And Entering review by A customer from UK
    Rated - 5.0 stars Customer Review 23 June 2008
    ...Jude Law - Binoche is of course Binoche. And there is a fantastic comic turn by Vera Farmiga. This movie proves it is possible to make a film about London that looks at s...   Read customer review
  • The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
  • The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas review by PJshadow from Leeds
    Rated - 3.5 stars Not as good as the book, but good all the same. 25 January 2011
    ...re you'll still think it's a decent original story anyway. David Thewlis and Vera Farmiga put in very decent performances as the SS officer and his wife whilst the lead ...   Read customer review

Vera Farmiga - filmography


  • Goats (2012)
    Starring: Vera Farmiga,  David Duchovny,  Keri Russell
    Director: Christopher Neil
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    GOATS, follows 15-year old Ellis, a grounded, intelligent young man, as he is getting ready to leave his luxurious but eclectic home in the foothills of Tucson for his freshman year at Gates Academy, an East Coast prep school, and his estranged father's alma mater. This means leaving behind Wendy, ..read more »
    1 star out of 5 23% from 3 members
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  • Goats - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Vera Farmiga,  David Duchovny,  Keri Russell
    Director: Christopher Neil
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    GOATS, follows 15-year old Ellis, a grounded, intelligent young man, as he is getting ready to leave his luxurious but eclectic home in the foothills of Tucson for his freshman year at Gates Academy, an East Coast prep school, and his estranged father's alma mater. This means leaving behind Wendy, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
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  • Source Code on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal,  Michelle Monaghan,  Vera Farmiga
    Director: Duncan Jones
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) is on a mission to identify a bomber who destroyed a train just hours earlier and who plans to kill thousands more with a much larger explosion in the heart of Chicago. A top-secret program, named "Source Code", allows Colter to exist briefly as another man ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 74,510 members
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  • Henry's Crime - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Keanu Reeves,  James Caan,  Julie Ordon
    Director: Malcolm Venville
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Keanu Reeves stars in this dark-tinged romantic comedy. Henry (Reeves) is an unambitious man who sleepwalks his way through life and his dull job at a highway toll booth. His life changes abruptly when he stumbles into the midst of an armed robbery crime scene, is mistaken by police for one of the ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 1,481 member
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  • Henry's Crime on DVD (2010)
    Starring: James Caan,  Julie Ordon,  Vera Farmiga
    Director: Malcolm Venville
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Keanu Reeves stars as Henry, a man imprisoned for a robbery he did not commit. Having done his time, Henry is released but the 'reformed' felon is now determined to pull-off the robbery he was convicted for. Vera Farmiga and James Caan co-star, with Malcolm Venville (44-INCH CHEST) directing from a ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 4,136 members
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  • Orphan on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Vera Farmiga,  Peter Sarsgaard,  Isabelle Fuhrman
    Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The tragic loss of their unborn child has devastated Kate (Vera Farmiga) and John (Peter Sarsgaard), taking a toll on both their marriage and KateÂ’s fragile psyche as she is plagued by nightmares and haunted by demons from her past. Struggling to regain some semblance of normalcy in their lives, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 15,487 members
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  • Orphan - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Peter Sarsgaard,  Jimmy Bennett,  Erik Olsen
    Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Jaume Collet-Sera directs this psychological horror starring Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsaard as Kate and John, a couple grieving the loss of their unborn child who decide to adopt nine-year-old Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman) from a nearby orphanage. But almost as soon as they welcome Esther into their ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 4,704 members
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  • Up in the Air on DVD (2009)
    Starring: George Clooney,  Jason Bateman,  Anna Kendrick
    Director: Jason Reitman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ryan Bingham is a corporate downsizing expert whose cherished life on the road is threatened just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and just after he's met the frequent-traveler woman of his dreams.
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 48,851 members
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  • Up In The Air - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: George Clooney,  Jason Bateman,  Anna Kendrick
    Director: Jason Reitman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    From Jason Reitman, the Oscar nominated director of Juno and Thank You for Smoking, comes a dramatic comedy called Up in the Air starring Oscar winner George Clooney as Ryan Bingham, a corporate downsizing expert who, after years of travelling, suddenly finds himself ready to make a real connection.
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 13,797 members
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  • In Tranzit on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Phillip Azarov,  Thomas Kretschmann,  Vera Farmiga
    Director: Tom Roberts
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In the chaotic aftermath of WWII, a group of German POWs are accidentally sent to a female-run Soviet prison camp. When the guards are given the task of weeding out the SS officers, they play a bitter game of cat and mouse with the prisoners. Each group slowly learns that situations are not what ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 35 members
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  • The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Vera Farmiga,  David Thewlis,  Rupert Friend
    Director: Mark Herman
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Based on the novel by John Boyne and starring David Thewlis, Sheila Hancock, Rupert Friend and Vera Farmiga The Boy In Striped Pyjamas tells the story of Bruno, when is life is forever changed after he and his family move to a remote new home, and he strikes up a friendship with the only boy who ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 83,130 members
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  • The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Richard Johnson,  David Heyman,  Jack Scanlon
    Director: Mark Herman
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Haunting World War 2 drama told from the perspective of Bruno (Asa Butterfield), the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp (David Thewlis). Bruno has just moved with his family into a new house in the middle of nowhere, and feels imprisoned by his mother (Vera Farmiga)'s ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 922 members
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  • Devil's Child on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Vera Farmiga,  Jacob Kogan,  Sam Rockwell
    Director: George Ratliff
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    2007 horror movie starring Sam Rockwell and Vera Farmiga. The arrival of a newborn baby daughter should be a happy event for most families, but for the Cairn family of Manhattan it proves to be the start of a terrifying series of events. Firstborn son Joshua (Jacob Kogan), a precocious but solemn ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 625 members
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  • Never Forever (2007)
    Starring: Vera Farmiga,  David Lee McInnis,  Joseph Y. Kim
    Director: Gina Kim
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Sophie Lee has been trying unsuccessfully to get pregnant. Her husband's family, devout Korean Catholics, prays for the couple. His failure to have a child is deeply shameful to him, so when he attempts suicide, Sophie tries something extreme: she follows an undocumented immigrant from a fertility ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 5 members
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  • Running Scared on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Paul Walker,  Vera Farmiga,  Ivana Milicevic
    Director: Wayne Kramer
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Crime thriller starring Paul Walker as Joey Gazelle, a low level mob flunkie whose role is to dispose of 'hot' guns from mob killings. We soon find out that Joey has been hiding these guns in the drywall of his basement, instead of tossing them in the river. When Joey's 10-year-old son (Alex ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 64% from 19,614 members
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  • Breaking And Entering on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Juliette Binoche,  Ray Winstone,  Martin Freeman
    Director: Anthony Minghella
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Class-based drama directed by Anthony Minghella and starring Jude Law. Will Francis (Law) is a young London architect living a stable, if dreary existence with his girlfriend Liv (Robin Wright Penn) and her behaviourally challenged daughter Bea. When his posh, arty offices are repeatedly burgled, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 14,289 members
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  • The Departed on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Leonardo Di Caprio,  Martin Sheen,  Ray Winstone
    Director: Martin Scorsese,  Martin Scors
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In South Boston, where the state police force is waging war on organized crime, young undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate run by gangland chief Costello. While Billy is quickly gaining Costello's confidence, Colin Sullivan, a hardened young criminal who has ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 110,074 members
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  • The Hard Easy (2005)
    Starring: Henry Thomas,  David Boreanaz,  Vera Farmiga
    Director: Ari Ryan
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 turns out very complicated and very bloody.
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 8 members
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  • The Manchurian Candidate on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Denzel Washington,  Liev Schreiber,  Jon Voigt
    Director: Jonathan Demme
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jonathan Demme directs this updated remake of John Frankenheimer's classic 1962 political thriller, based on the novel by Richard Condon. Major Bennett Marco (Denzel Washington) and Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Liev Schreiber) fought together in the Gulf War. A few years on, helped along by his ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 68,866 members
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  • Down To The Bone on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Hugh Dillon,  Jasper Daniels,  Vera Farmiga
    Director: Debra Granik
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Drama starring Vera Farmiga as Irene, a woman who realises her marriage is getting stale and who is finding it hard to raise her two sons whilst hiding her addiction to cocaine. Desperate to get her life back together she decides to get off the drugs for the sake of her husband and children. ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 44% from 712 members
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  • Dummy on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Jessica Walter,  Illeana Douglas,  Milla Jovovich
    Director: Greg Pritikin
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Steven Schoichet is browbeaten at every turn, by his family, his dead-end job, the faceless suburb where he still lives at home. That is until he decides to make a change: Ventriloquism--hey, a dream's a dream. His family barely pays him enough attention to even dismiss the idea--his mother is only ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 357 members
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  • Love in the Time of Money (2002)
    Starring: Vera Farmiga,  Domenick Lombardozzi,  Jill Hennessy
    Director: Peter Mattei
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Peter Mattei's depressing, bleakly humorous drama paints a grim portrait of life in the big city. The film follows nine confused and desperate New Yorkers who are looking for love in all the wrong places: an inexperienced prostitute (Vera Farmiga), a troubled contractor (Domenick Lombardozzi), an ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 40 members
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  • Quid Pro Quo
    Starring: Nick Stahl,  Nick Stahl,  Vera Farmiga
    Director: Carlos Brooks
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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-realization.
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 9 members
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Vera Farmiga facts

5 most recent films

The Conjuring - 2.0 stars
The Conjuring - Blu-ray - 3 stars
Goats - 1.0 stars
Safe House - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Goats - Blu-ray - 3 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Departed - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - 4.0 stars
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Departed - 4.0 stars
Source Code - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Goats - Blu-ray - 3 stars
The Conjuring - Blu-ray - 3 stars
Goats - 1.0 stars
The Conjuring - 2.0 stars
The Hard Easy - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Jeffrey Wright - 5 times - show films
Danny McBride - 4 times - show films
George Clooney - 4 times - show films
Ray Winstone - 4 times - show films
Jason Bateman - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Mark Herman - 4 times - show films
Jonathan Demme - 4 times - show films
Niki Caro - 3 times - show films
Jason Reitman - 3 times - show films
Duncan Jones - 3 times - show films