Vera Farmiga was born on August 6, 1973, in Clifton, New Jersey to Mykhailo Farmiga, a Ukrainian systems analyst-turned-landscaper, and his wife Lubomyra "Luba", a schoolteacher. As a child, she converted with her family from the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church to Pentecostalism.
Languages Vera Farmiga Speak fluently
As of Wikipedia data, Vera Farmiga (full bio and net worth) considers herself to be "100% Ukrainian American". She was raised in an insular Ukrainian American community in Irvington, New Jersey, with Ukrainian being her first language, and did not learn English until she started kindergarten at age six.
When she was 12, the family moved from Irvington to Whitehouse Station, New Jersey. She attended St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic School in Newark, New Jersey, and toured with a Ukrainian folk-dancing ensemble, Syzokryli, during her teen years.
- Ukrainian: first language
- English: second language