The charming and talented Victor Farmiga is one of seven siblings born into a family with Ukrainian roots and featuring both actresses Vera and Taissa Farmiga who are his sisters – and yet, our leading man has chosen the path that is different from the show business for himself.
Early Life
Victor Farmiga was born in an immigrant family of Ukrainians in Clifton of New Jersey. He grew up in a large family with extended focus on the Ukrainian culture in terms of language and sensibilities. What life was like in the Farmiga household was that it was full of life, and Shelby and John were raised in the middle of both the Ukrainian and American cultures for all the siblings.
Just as his brothers and sisters, Victor experienced a profound up-bringing within a closed family environment that place a high value on classroom acquisition and effort. Their father was a systems analyst, and their mother took care of seven children before adopting the kids.
Living in New Jersey within the seventies and the eighties, Victor would represent any other kid, who grew up in America during that period and as for the Ukrainian origins, his childhood would look quite similar to any other Ukrainian kid.
The family valued their Ukrainian heritage and as such Victor like other siblings attended Ukrainian Catholic school, was engaged in community activities of the Ukrainian-American community. These and other similar early experiences did much to define his perspective on native culture and society as well as the American heritage.
Career
Unlike his sisters Vera and Taissa, who embarked on acting as their career Victor was more of a private person when it came to choosing his profession. Details on his career life remain undisclosed but it has been identified that he has gone into other ventures outside acting.
It shows how the two Farmiga siblings pursue the career independently and follow their unique way to the top. It shows that Success is not tangible and can be achieved through different career choices and it does mean that all the talents in a family must succeed through same way.
To this end, unlike his sisters who receive recognition for the acting accomplishments, Victor has established his own different life and career free from the intricacies of publicity hence is pursuing his own goals & benchmarks of life as well as family.
About Parents: Luba Farmiga, Mykhailo Farmiga
Luba and Mykhailo Farmiga have the real immigrant’s story of coming from Ukraine to the United States because they wanted a better life and the American dream. Luba, a schoolteacher from Ukraine, emerged a happy mother who managed to foster different talents of her children as well as observing their culture.
Mykhailo went to work as a systems analyst, thereby showing his family how dear education and professional success is. Though not high rolling, the Farmiga’s ensured their children had the freedom to incubate their talents and realize their potential in any form; art, commerce, and otherwise.