Though Farmiga appeared on Broadway and enjoyed a brief run on television in the short-lived police procedural "UC: Undercover," she's best known for her work in a mix of independent and mainstream films. Just two years after winning a Special Jury Prize at Sundance for her portrayal of a cocaine addict in Down to the Bone (2004), she starred as a police psychiatrist in The Departed.
In 2009, Farmiga played opposite George Clooney in writer-director Jason Reitman's drama Up in the Air. Her supporting performance garnered critical acclaim, along with Golden Globe, Oscar and BAFTA nominations.
Up in the AirRyan Bingham (George Clooney) racks up miles flying around the country firing employees on behalf of companies. But he faces losing the job he savors to recent college grad Natalie Keener (Anna Kendrick) -- and losing the ability to escape emotional ties to anything. A connection he builds with Alex... Read More
Higher GroundVera Farmiga stars in and directs this sensitive and searching chronicle describing a woman's lifetime journey of faith -- one that initially leads her to join a fundamentalist sect and then leave it again years later. Adapted from the spiritual memoir This Dark World by Carolyn Briggs, the... Read More
Henry's CrimeKeanu Reeves stars in this dark comedy as Henry, an affable tollbooth worker in Buffalo, N.Y., who finds himself on the wrong end of justice when he's accused and convicted of a bank robbery that he didn't commit. After getting some advice from an old convict (James Caan) while spending time in the... Read More
JoshuaEight-year-old genius Joshua Cairn (Jacob Kogan) is used to being in the limelight -- by himself. When his parents (Sam Rockwell and Vera Farmiga) bring the boy's new baby sister home from the hospital, the envious youngster's scheming threatens to rip the family apart. Sibling rivalry rears its... Read More
Never ForeverVera Farmiga stars in this heartbreaking drama (a 2006 Sundance Film Festival entry) as Sophie, a woman who's utterly devoted to her husband but finds she's unable to get pregnant. When Sophie makes an odd but decisive choice to bring a Korean immigrant (Jung-woo Ha) into their marriage, her fateful... Read More
Safe House (2012) | R | |
Goats (2012) | NR | |
Source Code (2011) | PG-13 | |
Higher Ground (2011) | R | |
Henry's Crime (2010) | R | |
R | ||
R | ||
The Vintner's Luck (2009) | NR | |
Quid Pro Quo (2008) | R | |
PG-13 | ||
Nothing But the Truth (2008) | R | |
In Tranzit (2008) | R | |
Never Forever (2007) | R | |
Joshua (2007) | R | |
R | ||
Running Scared (2006) | R | |
Breaking and Entering (2006) | R | |
The Hard Easy (2005) | R | |
Down to the Bone (2004) | R | |
The Manchurian Candidate (2004) | R | |
Dummy (2003) | R | |
Love in the Time of Money (2002) | R | |
NR | ||
R | ||
Dust (2001) | R | |
Autumn in New York (2000) | PG-13 | |
Snow White (2000) | NR | |
R | ||
Roar (1997) | TV-14 | |
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