Having an actor sibling has its perks, as any Mara, Olsen, Affleck or Wilson can attest. Like others before her, Taissa Farmiga, 20, didn’t have to go far to get discovered. Her sister, Vera Farmiga, cast her when she was 15 to play a younger version of herself in her 2011 directorial debut “Higher Ground.” “Vera would photograph me and our other siblings, and she said when she saw me on camera she saw something in me,” says Taissa Farmiga, the youngest of seven siblings. “I agreed because she’s my big sister and I didn’t want to get beat up.” Now, with three buzzy projects premiering at South by Southwest, which begins Friday in Austin, Tex., Farmiga is poised to claim a little of the spotlight on her own. “This is crazy,” she says of her disparate projects: “Share,” a short directed by pal Pippa Bianco; “Six Years,” a relationship drama shot last year in Austin during the festival, and “The Final Girls,” a horror comedy with Malin Åkerman, Nina Dobrev and Alia Shawkat. It was during another film festival, Sundance, where she promoted “Higher Ground,” that Farmiga officially caught the acting bug. “I realized that I loved it, and I just kind of
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