The Beauty of Retrospect, March Actress Edition: Vera Farmiga

I last featured Vera Farmiga in April 2009.  Where does the time go? 

Ms. Farmiga has been in several movie over the past ten years, but two movies in particular leap out, mainly because Jason Reitman directed both of them.

In late 2009, she starred in Reitman's movie Up in the Air, a comedy/drama about a termination specialist who works with laid-of workers, played by George Clooney.  Ms. Farmiga played a businesswoman who accompanies him on his travels.  More recently, though, in 2018, she played Oletha "Lee" Hart, the wife of disgraced former U.S. Senator Gary Hart, in Reitman's The Front Runner, about Hart's ultimately doomed 1988 presidential campaign.

Unfortunately, The Front Runner was also doomed to failure.  Apparently people are more interested in movies about U.S. Presidents and First Ladies than in movies about would-be U.S. Presidents.