Taissa Farmiga
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Farmiga in September 2015
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August 17, 1994 Readington, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2011–present |
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Taissa Farmiga (/tɑːˈiːsə fɑːrˈmiːɡə/; born August 17, 1994) is an American actress. She began her career on film in the drama Higher Ground (2011), and subsequently made her television debut in the FX series American Horror Story: Murder House (2011), and her stage debut in the play Buried Child (2016).
Farmiga has since appeared in Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring (2013), Mindscape (2013), The Final Girls (2015), 6 Years (2015), In a Valley of Violence (2016), and Warren Beatty's Rules Don't Apply (2016).
Farmiga was born and raised in the Whitehouse Station area of Readington Township, New Jersey. She is the youngest of seven children born to Ukrainian American parents Lubomyra (née Spas), a schoolteacher, and Michael Farmiga, a systems analyst. Her older siblings are Victor, Vera, Stephan, Nadia, Alexander, and Laryssa; the latter of whom was born with spina bifida. Her paternal first cousin is visual artist Adriana Farmiga. She attended public school until fourth grade, after which she began homeschooling. Farmiga has stated that she understands the Ukrainian language but can only partially speak it. She is proficient in American Sign Language, having taken classes for four years.
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