page_title: Vera Farmiga
section_title: 2018–present
hierarchical_section_title: Vera Farmiga / Career / 2018–present
caption_attribution_description: English: Vera Farmiga speaking at the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con International in San Diego, California.
context_page_description: Vera Ann Farmiga is an American actress, director, and producer. She began her professional acting career on stage in the original Broadway production of Taking Sides. Farmiga made her television debut in the Fox fantasy adventure series Roar, and her feature film debut in the drama-thriller Return to Paradise.
  Farmiga's breakthrough came in 2004 with her starring role as a drug addict in the drama Down to the Bone. She received further praise for the drama film Nothing But the Truth, and won critical acclaim for starring in the 2009 comedy-drama Up in the Air, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Farmiga made her directorial debut in 2011 with the acclaimed drama film Higher Ground, in which she also had a leading role. She also had starring roles in the political thriller The Manchurian Candidate, the crime drama The Departed, the historical drama The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, the science fiction thriller Source Code, the action thriller Safe House, the legal drama The Judge, the biographical drama The Front Runner, and the monster film Godzilla: King of the Monsters.
context_section_description: Farmiga co-starred with Liam Neeson in Jaume Collet-Serra's action thriller The Commuter, which was released in January 2018. Also in January 2018, she appeared as a politician in Amazon's sci-fi anthology series Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams, in an episode directed by Dee Rees. Farmiga then portrayed Laura Jaconi in Shana Feste's comedy-drama film Boundaries, which premiered in March 2018 at South by Southwest.
  Next in 2018, Farmiga starred as neo-Nazi group leader Shareen Krager in Guy Nattiv's racial drama Skin, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, and portrayed Oletha "Lee" Hart in Jason Reitman's Gary Hart biopic The Front Runner, opposite Hugh Jackman, which was released in November 2018.
  In March 2019, she starred as Jane Doe alongside John Goodman in Rupert Wyatt's science fiction thriller Captive State. In May 2019, she portrayed Dr. Emma Russell in the third installment of the MonsterVerse film franchise, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, directed by Michael Dougherty. Also in May 2019, Farmiga portrayed prosecutor Elizabeth Lederer in Ava DuVernay's Netflix crime drama miniseries When They See Us, based on the Central Park jogger case. For her performance, she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie. In June 2019, she reprised her role as Lorraine Warren in the horror sequel film Annabelle Comes Home.
  Farmiga has also been cast as Livia Soprano in the film prequel to The Sopranos, titled The Many Saints of Newark, which is directed by Alan Taylor and scheduled for release in March 2021. She will reprise her role as Lorraine Warren in The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, set for release in June 2021.
caption: Farmiga at the San Diego Comic-Con in July 2018
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