Vera Farmiga is an actress, producer, and director, known for her various performances in movies like the 2006 Boston-set gangster flick The Departed and the 2013 horror film The Conjuring (plus its numerous spinoffs).
What fans may not know about the 48-year-old is she grew up in a large Ukrainian-American family — one that includes seven children!
Speaking with The Guardian in 2013, Vera revealed that her parents, Michael Farmiga, a systems-analyst-turned-landscaper and Lubomyra “Luba” Farmiga, a schoolteacher, are first-generation Ukrainian.
They were born after the second world war, but her grandparents “went through hell, saw unimaginable things, stuff you shouldn’t have to bear.” The Many Saints of Newark actress shared that she
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