Vera: I really don't feel a need to be famous, but I do feel a need to make a difference, to shed light on human emotion through acting. It sounds strange, but I don't recognize myself in the women in most films. And I should be up there somewhere. We all should.
Vera: As a kid I wanted attention, so I started praying for glasses because everyone had ace vision in my family. Then one day my eyes started going bad and never stopped.
Vera's star sign is Leo.
Vera attended high school with Jamie Graf, a multiple Grammy Award winner, and Zora Andrich, a reality star who won FOX reality show, Joe Millionaire.
Vera's surname is pronounced far-mee-guh.
Vera didn't learn English until she was six.
Vera wears contact lenses. Throughout her childhood, she wore glasses mostly but the only time she wore contact lenses was when she was dancing.
Vera eloped with Sebastian Roch? from 1997 to 2005 in which they divorced.