Farina was born and raised in
Bayside, Queens,
New York. 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. 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. ==Filmography==