Victoria Rowell

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Victoria Rowell

Victoria Rowell (aka Vicky Lynn Rowell; born May 10, 1959 in Portland , Maine ) is an American activist, writer , ex-dancer, ex- model and actress who was diagnosed in German-speaking countries primarily through the television series Diagnosis: Mord became famous.

biography

Victoria Rowell grew up as a foster child with various families, some on a farm in Maine. Her biological mother, Dorothy Rowell, was a white woman and her unknown father was an African American . The foster mother with whom Victoria lived for the longest time was called Agatha Armstead, a black woman from Boston who was also the first to notice her creative streak and her talent for dancing.

Victoria received ballet lessons from the age of eight , received scholarships for various American ballet schools, and worked professionally as a dancer from the age of 17. She danced u. a. at the American Ballet Theater II . She later worked as a model for several years.

She got her first film role in 1987 in the agent parody Leonard Part 6 alongside Bill Cosby . It followed u. a. Roles on the Cosby Show (1989–1990). Victoria Rowell had her greatest success with her role as Drucilla Winters in the long-running television soap Shadow of Passion ( The Young and the Restless ), which she impersonated intermittently from 1990 to 1998, 2000 and from 2002 to 2007. The role earned her numerous nominations and she won 11 NAACPs .

Rowell also played in various films, including a. in An Honorable Gentleman (1992) with Eddie Murphy; and in Dumb and Dumber (1994) with Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels . She has been nominated for an Emmy Award several times .

For her role of Dr. Amanda Bentley in the television series Diagnosis: Mord (1993-2001) alongside Dick van Dyke she was nominated in 1996, 1999 and 2000 for the Image Award . After the actual end of the series, she played this role again in 2002 in two television films ( Diagnosis Murder: Without Warning and Diagnosis Murder: Town Without Pity ).

After leaving the series Shadow of Passion in 2007, Rowell criticized racism in the film business against African Americans and against them personally. She complained that at the time there were no black writers, producers or directors , and not even make- up artists or hairdressers behind the scenes, and that she had taken part in writing her own text, but had no chance to officially participate in the scripts . Based on her experiences, she has since openly campaigned against racism against African Americans.

Victoria Rowell produced the six-part series Jacqueline and Jilly in 2018-2019 . a. is about drug addiction . She herself also played one of the leading roles, was co-author and directed .

Victoria Rowell is also deeply committed to foster and adopted children, and founded the Rowell Foster Children's Fine Arts Scholarship Fund , which supports ballet classes for foster children.

Her autobiography The Women Who Raised Me , in which she speaks openly about her childhood and foster mothers, became a New York Times bestseller ; Rowall received the African American Literary Award for her book , was nominated twice for the NAACP Image Award, and received the NAACP for Outstanding Literary Work / Debut Author .

Relationships

Rowell had been married twice by that time (March 2019). First in 1989-90 with Tom Fahey, a pilot who she soon divorced. They have one daughter, Maya Fahey.

From 1990 to 1997 Victoria had a relationship with the famous musician Wynton Marsalis . Their son Jasper Armstrong Marsalis was born on December 26, 1995.

In 2007 she met the artist Radcliffe Bailey, whom she married on June 27, 2009; however, the couple divorced in 2014.

Currently (beginning of 2019) the Jamaican Leslie Chang is her partner.

Filmography (selection)

literature

Web links

Commons : Victoria Rowell  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Biography at IMDb.com (English; last accessed on March 23, 2019)
  2. ↑ a b c Entry ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at filmreference.com @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.filmreference.com
  3. ↑ a b c Summary of Rowell's autobiography The women who raised me at Amazon.com
  4. ↑ a b c "Victoria Rowell: Why I left Young & the Restless", article in www.blackpress.org (English; last seen on March 23, 2019)
  5. ↑ Youtube Video: Victoria Rowell Selma , Interview about her experiences as a foster child and racism against African-Americans, published: July 19, 2015 (English; seen March 23, 2019)
  6. ↑ a b Website about Jacqueline and Jilly with video of a television interview (seen March 25, 2019)
  7. ↑ a b Jacqueline and Jilly (2018–) - Full Cast & Crew at IMDb.com (English; last accessed on March 25, 2019)
  8. ↑ Youtube Video: Victoria Rowell on Black Enterprise about her childhood and her commitment to foster children, December 19, 2011 (English; viewed March 23, 2019)
  9. ↑ Brief information about Victoria Rowell on amazon.com (English; accessed March 25, 2019)
  10. ↑ Laura Zigman: Victoria Rowell and Radcliffe Bailey , in the New York Times , July 11, 2009 (English; viewed March 23, 2019)
  11. ↑ According Rowalls own words in an interview in the Wendy Williams Show. Youtube Video: Victoria Rowell is Sweet, Civilized, & Starring in a New Series , published on January 18, 2019 (see: 4: 59-5: 34 min) (English; viewed March 23, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Rowell, Victoria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rowell, Victoria Lynn (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION american actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Portland , Maine , United States