Carolyn Farina
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Carolyn Farina (born 1973 or 1974)[1][2] is an American actress best known for her starring role as Audrey Rouget in the 1990 Whit Stillman film Metropolitan.
Career
Farina was born and raised in Bayside, Queens, New York.[1][2] Her father left the family very early.[2] A shy child, she began acting classes in grade school.[2][1] After high school, she had jobs as a waitress, secretary, and receptionist.[2] She spent one semester at Queens College, and also studied acting at a variety of venues including the Lee Strasberg Institute.[2][1]
She had no professional acting experience or agent when she auditioned for, and was cast as the lead in, Whit Stillman's 1990 independent film Metropolitan.[1] Her performance received very favorable reviews, which noted her sensitivity and perceptiveness.[1][3]
Apart from a brief non-speaking cameo reprisal of her character Audrey Rouget in Stillman's follow-up film The Last Days of Disco (1998), during the 1990s following her starring role in Metropolitan, Farina received only small roles in two more films. These were a non-speaking role in Little Noises (1992), which was directed by Jane Spencer, and a small role as the protagonist's sister in The Age of Innocence (1993), which was directed by Martin Scorsese.
She returned to college after this period and earned a master's degree in psychology, and made a new career working as a child psychologist.[4][5]
In 2011 she appeared briefly in Whit Stillman's Damsels in Distress, playing a waitress in a diner. In 2023, she appeared in the film A View of the World from Fifth Avenue, which premiered at the Bentonville Film Festival before being released to video on demand.[6]
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Metropolitan | Audrey Rouget | |
| 1992 | Little Noises | Cousin Linny | credited as Caroline Farina |
| 1993 | The Age of Innocence | Janey Archer | |
| 1998 | The Last Days of Disco | Audrey Rouget | |
| 2011 | Damsels in Distress | Carolina Antonucci | |
| 2023 | A View of the World from Fifth Avenue | Phoebe Wilson | video on demand |
References
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External links
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- "What happened to the actress Carolyn Farina?" by Julian O'Dea at Academia.edu
- 2015 40-minute interview featuring Whit Stillman, Carolyn Farina, and Dylan Hundley regarding Metropolitan