actress who played violet in american horror story
Taissa Farmiga Although Farmiga initially planned to become an accountant,[10] she was persuaded to appear in her sister Vera Farmiga's directorial debut drama Higher Ground, playing the 16-year-old version of the lead character Corinne Walker.[11] Shortly after its premiere at the 2011 Sundance, and following rave reviews for her performance,[12] she was signed to talent agency ICM Partners.[13] That same year, Farmiga starred in the first season of FX's anthology series American Horror Story, launching her to worldwide prominence.[14] She portrayed Violet Harmon in American Horror Story: Murder House, the troubled adolescent daughter of Vivien (Connie Britton) and Ben Harmon (Dylan McDermott)[15][16] – a role she secured in her first professional acting audition.[17] Farmiga then joined the cast of Sofia Coppola's crime satire The Bling Ring, based on the real life group of the same name, portraying 17-year-old wild child Sam Moore.[18] The film opened in Un Certain Regard at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, to generally positive reviews.[19]
American Horror Story Set in the year 2017, the fictitious town of Brookfield Heights, Michigan, is left divided upon the wake of Donald Trump's presidential election. Local restaurant owner Ally Mayfair-Richards (Sarah Paulson) is left utterly distraught, along with her wife Ivy (Alison Pill). Despite the help of her psychiatrist, Dr. Rudy Vincent (Cheyenne Jackson), Ally becomes increasingly unstable in the following weeks, her long repressed phobias begin to re-emerge, and they begin to affect her relationships with her wife as well as their son Oz (Cooper Dodson). Across town, a young man named Kai Anderson (Evan Peters) rejoices at the election results, enticing him to pursue political power by running for city council, with the help of his reluctant, liberal sister Winter (Billie Lourd), who was also hired by the Mayfair-Richards household as their babysitter. As Ally attempts to adjust to regular life despite her growing anxiety and paranoia, she becomes terrorized by a group of masked assailants in clown attire who are only present when she is alone, leaving those around her to wonder if she was truly attacked, or if they were merely hallucinations. With Kai's rise to power revealing sinister motives, as well as suspicious activities from other residents such as her eccentric neighbors Harrison (Billy Eichner) and Meadow Wilton (Leslie Grossman) amplifying her growing distrust of those around her, Ally starts to draw connections between her alleged clown attackers and the many strange incidents occurring in Brookfield Heights, and she begins to fear that everyone in town is out to get her. This season mostly deals with marginalization, with other themes including politics, government, conspiracies, paranoia, fear, power, disenfranchisement, the media, sexism, and oppression.