Years active: 2011 - present (started around 16 years old; 13 years in the business)
About Taissa Farmiga
Taissa Farmiga is an American actress. She rose to prominence for her work on the anthology series American Horror Story, starring in the seasons Murder House (2011), Coven (2013–2014), Roanoke (2016) and Apocalypse (2018). Her early film roles include the crime drama The Bling Ring (2013) and the psychological thriller Mindscape (2013).
Farmiga drew praise for her performances in the comedy slasher film The Final Girls (2015), and the drama films 6 Years (2015) and Share (2015), all of which premiered at South by Southwest, which led her to be named one of the breakout stars of the festival. She has provided the voice of Raven in the DC Animated Movie Universe (2016–2020), starred in the comedy films Rules Don't Apply (2016) and The Long Dumb Road (2018), the drama films In a Valley of Violence (2016) and What They Had (2018), and the supernatural thriller films The Nun (2018) and its sequel (2023).
Farmiga also featured in the main cast of the procedural drama series Wicked City (2015), and made her stage debut in the Off-Broadway revival of the drama play Buried Child (2016).
Farmiga is of Ukrainian descent. Her sister is director and fellow actress Vera Farmiga.
As of August 2024, she has amassed 2.0 million Instagram followers.
