Vera Farmiga

The Departed actress Vera Farmiga was spotted enjoying a family walk through SoHo, New York with her hubby Renn Hawkey and their two children Fynn , 3, Gytta , 1 on Tuesday (February 7). The 38-year-old Academy Award nominee - who wore a striped sweater and a stylish black fedora - seemed to enjoy her family time as she and her husband took in the New York sights as they pushed their sleeping babes. Top Story? (feature beneath menu):  noRead Full Story

Actress and filmmaker Vera Farmiga , best known for her Oscar-nominated performance in 2009's Up in the Air as well as films like Orphan and The Departed , has signed on to play singer/songwriter Christine McVie in The Drummer , a biopic of the late musician and Beach Boy Dennis Wilson, for director Randy Miller . McVie and Wilson were in a relationship from 1979 to 1981, but McVie was forced to break things off because she couldn't deal with his alcoholism. Wilson died from drowning two...Read Full Story

Oscar nominee Vera Farmiga wore a very little black dress with a funky, fresh silhouette at the premiere of her directorial debut Higher Ground last night in NYC. The actress also stars in the flick, which was quite buzzworthy at Sundance this year. The film follows a woman who gets thrown into a small fundamentalist community after a horrible accident. In a past interview, Farmiga says she was having trouble finding a good script, so decided to take matters into her own hands. She said (via...Read Full Story

Vera Farmiga has joined Aaron Eckhart in The Drummer, a biopic of Beach Boys… drummer Dennis Wilson, who Eckhart will be portraying for director Randall Miller. The actress is taking the female lead as Fleetwood Mac member Christine McVie, with whom Wilson shared a “passionate and tumultuous relationship.” Written by Jody Savin, the independent drama will do the new, now atypical music biopic thing — focus on a certain period of the subject’s life, in the case the final six year’s of Wilson‘s...Read Full Story

Insidious director James Wan wants to reunite with the star of his last film, Patrick Wilson , in The Conjuring .  Patrick Wilson ( Wacthmen , Young Adult , Morning Glory ) and  Vera Farmiga ( Source Code , The Orphan , Up in the Air ) are in negotiations to join Wan’s new horror, based on the true-life story of the Perron family who claimed to live with dead spirits in their Rhode Island home. The script was written by  Chad Hayes and Carey Hayes who originally pitched the movie to Summit...Read Full Story