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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 »
    3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
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  • Source Code - Blu-ray (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 »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 18,128 members
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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 53,599 members
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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 3,530 members
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  • Henry's Crime - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Julie Ordon,  Vera Farmiga,  Judy Greer
    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 1,227 member
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  • Orphan - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Isabelle Fuhrman,  Vera Farmiga,  Erik Olsen
    Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    An outwardly angelic little girl displays an unforeseen devilish streak upon moving into the home of her new adoptive parents in this shocker starring Peter Sarsgaard and Vera Farmiga. In the aftermath of a miscarriage, prospective parents Kate (Farmiga) and John (Sarsgaard) find their lives turned ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 4,304 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 14,447 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
    From Jason Reitman, the Oscar® nominated director of "Juno," comes the new acclaimed film "Up in the Air" starring Oscar® winner George Clooney as Ryan Bingham, a corporate downsizing expert whose cherished life on the road is threatened just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 44,826 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 12,478 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 set during World War 2, "The Boy In Striped Pyjamas" tells the story of Bruno, when his 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 appears to be around.
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 75,286 members
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  • In Tranzit (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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 15 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 stars out of 5 35% from 4 members
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  • Devil's Child on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Sam Rockwell,  Vera Farmiga,  Jacob Kogan
    Director: George Ratliff
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The arrival of a newborn girl causes the gradual disintegration of the Cairn family; particularly for 9-year-old Joshua (Jacob Kogan), an eccentric boy whose proper upbringing and refined tastes both take a sinister turn.
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 588 members
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  • Running Scared on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Chazz Palminteri,  Paul Walker,  Cameron Bright
    Director: Wayne Kramer
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    For over a decade Joey Gazelle (Paul Walker) has successfully juggled his conflicting roles as loving family man and low-ranking mobster. However, when Joey ignores the mob's explicit instructions to dispose of the gun used in the fatal shooting of a corrupt cop during a bungled drugs operation, he ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 19,301 members
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  • The Departed on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Jack Nicholson,  Matt Damon,  Leonardo DiCaprio
    Director: Martin Scorsese,  Martin Scors
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Director Martin Scorsese returns to his trademark style with the violent, bruised, and bloody feature THE DEPARTED. Scorsese filched the basic storyline from Wai Keung Lau and Siu Fai Mak's masterful 2002 Hong Kong action film, INFERNAL AFFAIRS, which saw a policeman going undercover as a mob ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 106,380 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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  • Down To The Bone on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Vera Farmiga,  Hugh Dillon,  Clint Jordan
    Director: Debra Granik
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    rene, a young, working class mother (Vera Farmiga) struggling to raise her child while working as a cashier in a supermarket, finds her hard life made immeasurably harder by her cocaine addiction. When her dealer cuts her off, Irene decides to take a positive step by entering rehab, where she meets ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 686 members
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  • Dummy on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Adrien Brody,  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 340 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
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    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 50% from 35 members
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Vera Farmiga facts

5 most recent films

Safe House - 3.5 stars
Goats - 3 stars
Safe House - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Source Code - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Source Code - 3.5 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 - 3 stars
Never Forever - 2.0 stars
Higher Ground - 2.0 stars
The Hard Easy - 2.5 stars
Love in the Time of Money - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Jeffrey Wright - 6 times - show films
Denzel Washington - 5 times - show films
Danny McBride - 4 times - show films
Ray Winstone - 4 times - show films
George Clooney - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

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