Vera Farmiga

Vera Farmiga

Date of Birth
6 August 1973, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA

Birth Name
Vera Ann Farmiga

Height
5' 5¼" (1.66 m)

Vera Farmiga is hot



Mini Biography

Vera Farmiga was born second of seven children on August 6, 1973, in Passaic County, New Jersey, USA. She did not speak English until the age of six, and was raised in a strict Ukrainian Catholic home of her father, Michael (Mykola) Farmiga, and her mother, Lyubov (Lyuba) Farmiga. She attended a Ukrainian Catholic school, then went to public school, and was a shy nearsighted girl wearing spectacles while practicing her piano, and was switching to contact lenses for dancing. Farmiga was touring with a Ukrainian folk-dancing company in her teens.

In 1991, she graduated from Hunderton Central regional high school and initially dreamed of becoming an optometrist, but eventually changed her mind, and studied acting at Syracuse University's School of Performing Arts. She began her professional acting career in 1996, making her Broadway debut as an understudy in the play "Taking Sides". Her stage credits included performances in "The Tempest", "The Glass Menagerie", "Hamlet", and in a well-reviewed Off-Broadway production "Second-Hand Smoke" (1997). At the same time, she made her television debut as a female lead, "Catlin", opposite then unknown Heath Ledger in Fox's adventure series "Roar" (1997).