--- name: "Bria Vinaite" canonical: "https://film.one/person/bria-vinaite" fi1m_id: "bria-vinaite" imdb_id: "nm8458915" tmdb_id: 1704641 wikidata_id: "Q47006108" roles: ["Actor"] born: "10 June 1993" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-17T23:58:26.233536+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Bria Vinaite ## Identity Bria Vinaite - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/bria-vinaite - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** bria-vinaite - **IMDb ID:** nm8458915 - **TMDB ID:** 1704641 - **Wikidata ID:** Q47006108 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bria_Vinaite, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47006108, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8458915/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1704641 Actor. Born 10 June 1993 in Alytus‎, Lithuania. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 10 June 1993, Alytus‎, Lithuania - **Also known as:** Barbora Bulvinaitė, Bria Vinaite Voltaggio - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bria_Vinaite, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47006108, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8458915/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1704641 ## Streaming the US now - **The Roku Channel:** [*The Florida Project*](https://film.one/film/the-florida-project.md) (88) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Bria Vinaite > Bria Vinaite makes difficult company worth watching. Her Halley in *The Florida Project* is abrasive and affectionate without becoming conveniently likeable, a strong debut that ought to earn her more than variations on the same part. Halley seems to have no patience left for being judged in *The Florida Project* (2017), and Bria Vinaite does not ask us to find that charming. She makes the young mother abrasive enough to be difficult company, even when we understand the financial desperation behind her behaviour. It is a strong performance with a wearing quality that belongs to the character. There is affection for her daughter, but affection does not settle our doubts about what Halley can manage. Sean Baker's direction and his screenplay with Chris Bergoch give that difficulty room rather than tidying it away. They do not require Halley to become conveniently likeable before taking her circumstances seriously. Vinaite's work alongside Brooklynn Prince matters here: the bond between mother and daughter gives us something to care about when Halley's manner wears us down. We were worried for the child because Vinaite makes her mother's love clear without reassuring us that she can cope. The performance works because that worry survives the warmth. This was Vinaite's professional acting debut, and Baker had found her through Instagram in 2016. It is tempting to treat Halley as a personality he happened to discover, which gives too little credit to the work of making affection and hostility credible in the same person. Subsequent work includes Darmi in the second season of *The OA* (2019) and supporting parts in *Lost Transmissions* (2019) and *Balance, Not Symmetry* (2019). We would not use those credits alone to declare what sort of actor she has become. The risk is that casting directors keep asking her to repeat Halley, a concern she has herself expressed. We would like to see what she does with a part that gives the tenderness more space. Another role built chiefly around confrontation would be a rather narrow response to the affection she makes convincing here. Start with *The Florida Project*, but do not mistake its difficult mother for the limits of the actor. ## Biography Bria Vinaite, born Barbora Bulvinaitė on 10 June 1993 in Alytus, Lithuania, is a Lithuanian-American actress. She moved to Brooklyn, New York, around the age of six or seven. Vinaite made her acting debut as Halley in Sean Baker's *The Florida Project* (2017), having been discovered by the director on Instagram. She had no prior professional acting experience. She later appeared in the series *The OA* (2019) as Darmi and in films including *Balance, Not Symmetry* (2019). She married chef Michael Voltaggio in 2022. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, variety.com, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *The Florida Project* (2017), Fi1m 88, as Halley — [page](https://film.one/film/the-florida-project.md) ## Complete filmography (7) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Lost Transmissions* (2020), as Micah - *Balance, Not Symmetry* (2019), as Hannah - *Dalia* (2019), as Dalia - *The Florida Project* (2017), as Halley — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/the-florida-project.md) - *The OA* (2016), series, as Darmi - *Adultland*, as Brittany - *Violent Delights*, as Skipper ## Gallery - ![Bria Vinaite](https://film.one/media/person/125774/gallery-7a969333bc75.jpg) Bria Vinaite — AM FM STUDIOS LLC, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Bria_Vinaite_on_AM_FM_Magazine.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Bria Vinaite](https://film.one/media/person/125774/gallery-30316e557105.jpg) Bria Vinaite — Image via TMDB - ![Bria Vinaite](https://film.one/media/person/125774/gallery-4d49fdcf8859.jpg) Bria Vinaite — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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