Vera Farmiga has landed the mother of all roles. The 39-year-old Orphan star will play Norman Bates mom on A&E’s “Bates Motel,” a prequel series to Hitchcock’s Psycho from Carlton Cuse (“LOST”) and Kerry Ehrin (“Friday Night Lights”).

Cuse tells THR.com:

We are delighted to welcome Vera Farmiga to “Bates Motel.” She is a phenomenal talent who has demonstrated incredible range and intelligence in a number of landmark film roles, and we couldn’t be more excited to have her join our project.

The series, which has been greenlit for a 10-episode first season, will focus on the relationship between Norma Louise Bates and her son Norman, giving light to all the fucked up things that led him to become a serial murderer.

Farmiga’s genre creds include bad seed thrillers Orphan and Joshua, the amputee identity disorder drama Quid Pro Quo and last year’s sci-fi sleeper hit The Source Code. She’ll next be seen in New Line’s upcoming based-on-true-events frightener The Conjuring.