In The Conjuring film franchise, Patrick Wilson played paranormal investigator Ed Warren in the first film. The 2013 movie stars Wilson opposite Vera Farmiga, who plays Ed’s wife and investigative partner, Lorraine Warren.
The story follows the Warrens as they investigate frightening events affecting the Perron family in a Rhode Island farmhouse. The film presents Ed and Lorraine as a married Catholic couple who combine religious belief, investigation, and personal experience when confronting alleged supernatural activity.
James Wan directed The Conjuring from a screenplay by Chad and Carey Hayes. Wilson’s performance helped establish Ed as a recurring character in the connected Conjuring Universe. He returned in The Conjuring 2 and The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It.
Patrick Wilson is sometimes mistaken for the director because he later directed films himself, including Insidious: The Red Door. Vera Farmiga played Lorraine, not Ed, while James Wan directed the first film but did not portray either Warren.