Victor was born in Camberwell, South London and trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts for three years. He then attended Goldsmiths University where he enjoyed studying an MA in Feature Film. During time spent in California, he also attended The Stella Adler Academy in Los Angeles.

The professional career began with the RSC stage production of The Hostage by Brendan Behan at the Barbican, London. Other prominent theatre roles include the titular role in Othello Productions for both Creation Theatre Company and also for Cambridge Shakespeare Company, Orsino in Twelfth Night, Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing,

He went onto work in impressive productions of Welcome to Thebes directed by Richard Eyre and Hamlet directed by Nicholas Hytner, both for The National Theatre. He played the part of James Miranda in White Woman Street at Everyman Theatre Cork, This production lead him to being cast in Fair City, the Dublin based nationally recognized RTE TV Drama. Shortly after he was then cast as Julius in the BBC film drama Shooting Dogs, which was directed by Michael Caton-Jones and starred John Hurt. It was filmed on location in Rwanda and depicted the country's Genocide that took place in 1994. Other TV work included playing Oloudah Equiano in 2000 Years. Victor also played the character John Brisibie in award winning and long running German TV Series Lindenstraße.

Most recently he has taken the central role in Agent from Abuja. A tense political thriller where this Nigerian character is kidnapped in London by four idealistic students.