Born in Brooklyn, NY, to a writer/accountant father, Stan Victor, and
case worker mother, Barbara Victor (both from southern Nigeria), she
is the middle child of three girls. Growing up between Brooklyn and
Long Island, she started dancing and playing piano at 6. She was
entered into a pageant by an aunt at age 13 and won Miss New York
Junior Teen. Though discovered by an agent at a fashion show
commitment, and pushed towards a career in modeling, she was drawn to
acting. Her academic achievements led her to the Ivy League, and she
was enrolled in the undergrad program of the Wharton School of Business
at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied entrepreneurial
management and marketing. While in college, she performed plays with
friends in parks around Philadelphia, and studied acting privately.
After school, she returned to New York City where she studied at the
Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, and quickly began working both on
Broadway and on various television shows, including NYC classics Law &
Order and Law & Order: SVU.
To End All Spells(2025)
Genius(2017)as Ollie Mae
Minx(2022)as Tina
My Father Belize(2019)
Critics Choice Celebration of Cinema & Television: Honoring Black, Latino & AAPI Achievements(2024)as Self
The Oscars(2013)as Self - Performer
