Victoria | Rachelle Marie Lefevre

The Character

Name: Victoria

Type: Vampire

Special Ability: Knows Where Safe Places Are

About Them: A red-haired, feline-like vampire, Victoria, is originally a member of James' coven. She plays a small role in assisting James, her lover and coven leader, in hunting Bella Swan due to his fantasies. Victoria is capable of digging up information on anybody and in anyway. After James is killed, she decides to exact revenge on Edward Cullen by plotting to kill his partner, Bella, in return for Edward having killed her partner. However, Bella is sufficiently protected from her wrath by the Quileute werewolves. About a year later, Victoria creates an army of bloodthirsty newborn vampires in Seattle to rise up against the combined forces of the werewolves and Cullen family. During this battle, both she and her new fighting partner, Riley, are destroyed by Edward and the young werewolf Seth Clearwater. Her supernatural talent is an ability to know the safe place to escape to. Always aware and cunning makes Victoria lethal in her own right.

Their Early History: Nothing is known about Victoria prior to Twilight. How and when she became a vampire is a mystery and how she ended up in James’ coven is left up to our imagination.

Actor Biography

Name: Rachelle Marie Lefevre

Nick Name(s): None

Date of Birth: February 1st 1979

Height: 5’ 6”

Hair: Long curly red hair

Eye Color: Blue

Fun Fact: Rachelle is fluent in both English and French

Hometown(s): Montreal, Quebec, Canada; West Hollywood, California

Career: Rachelle Lefevre first made her television debut in 1999 in Big Wolf on Campus for 22 episodes. Since then she has guest appeared for numerous television shows including The Hunger, Bliss, Undressed, Charmed, Bones, The Class, How I Met Your Mother, CSI: NY, and Boston Legal. Rachelle has also acted in several TV movies such as The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, See Jane Date, The Legend of Butch and Sundance, Pool Guys, and Picking Up and Dropping Off. Her repertoire for major motion picture films is Stardom, Dead Awake, Hatley High, Noel, The River King, Prom Wars, and Twilight. Her upcoming appearances include New Moon and American Summer.

About Them: Rachelle Marie Lefevre was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, Canada to her father who is an English teacher, and her mother, who is a psychologist. Rachelle was raised with her three sisters. After high school Rachelle studied creative arts at Dawson College and she also studied theater for two summers at the Walnut Hill School in Natick, Massachusetts. She then began a degree in education and literature at McGill University. While working as a waitress at a sushi bar in Westmount, a regular customer helped her get an audition for a television sitcom. Rachelle didn't land the part but got a call back from the casting director, leading to a role in the Canadian television series Big Wolf on Campus in 1999, and simultaneously Rachelle finished her degree at McGill, attending semesters between shoots. Gary Oldman in Dracula is her favorite on screen vampire. "It's not my favorite vampire movie, but he's definitely the sexiest, most intense Dracula." Favorite actresses include: Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett, Katharine Hepburn, Meryl Streep and Laura Linney. Favorite music includes: David Bowie, Joni Mitchell, Chapman, Patti Griffin, and The Dixie Chicks. Rachelle does confirm that she is in a relationship: "I'm not single. Not married, but definitely not available!"

Quick Quote: "Someone on the internet wrote how I was taking myself very seriously, how I thought I was a method actor. Now, I did watch lion attacks on YouTube. And this was because Stephenie (Meyer) used the word "feline" to describe Victoria as being agile. So what am I gonna do? I'm going to watch cats, because that's the word Stephenie used, feline. Because I've established that I'm not the most graceful person, when I say I acted like a cat I don't mean I was drinking milk out of a plate. I didn't want to feel like a fool doing all these vampire movements, so I wanted to put it in my body. It was like a theater-school exercise. But I'm glad that I did it. Though maybe I'm not glad I told people."