Victoria Tennant trained for eight years at the Elmhurst Ballet School and for two years at the Central School for Speech and Drama in London. In her first film, she starred in the title role of The Ragman’s Daughter (1972), written by Alan Sillitoe and directed by Harold Becker. Extensive television work began with Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for the fifteen hour miniseries, The Winds of War (1983). For the thirty-hour miniseries War and Remembrance (1988), she received her second Emmy nomination.She also wrote and co-produced the film Edie & Pen (1996) for HBO and produced Sister Mary Explains It All (2001) for Showtime with her producing partner and husband, Kirk Stambler.Ms. Tennant’s work in the theatre includes the Santa Barbara Theatre Company’s production of “Doubt”” by John Patrick Shanley, for which she won the Santa Barbara Independent’s Indie award, The Vagina Monologues at the Canon Theatre and the Napa Valley Opera House, The Misalliance at LA Theatreworks, Love Letters at Steppenwolf in Chicago, Getting Married at Circle-in-the-Square on Broadway, and The Taming of the Shrew at the Westport Playhouse.”
Victoria Tennant
Movies
Heroine
Tru Davies, a medical grad student in Boston whose grant is suddenly pulled out from under her, takes a job at a local morgue. There, she discovers that she has the power to “re-live” the previous day over again to help the people who wrongly ended up dead. She uses…
Fun Facts
Daughter of prima ballerina Irina Baronova and talent agent Cecil Tennant.
Goddaughter of Laurence Olivier
Father, Cecil Tennant, was an English producer and talent agent who ran MCA's talent office and whose clients included Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, John Gielgud and Michael Redgrave.
Her mother, Irina Baronova, was a Russian-born prima ballerina who appeared with the Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo. She gave up her career after marriage.
She has a sister, Irina, and a brother, Robert, both of whom were seriously hurt in a car accident that claimed their father, Cecil Tennant, in 1967.
A distant relative of British silent film actress Barbara Tennant (1892-1982).
In her youth she auditioned for a role in the Denmark-based production The Magical World of Disney: Ballerina: Part 1 (1966) but fellow British actress Jenny Agutter was ultimately chosen from the audition in Berlin, Germany.