Victoria Vertuga is a Los Angeles based actress/writer/producer/model/lover of slashes with a contagious energy and passion for creating. A California girl born & raised, she attended the University of Southern California where she graduated magna cum laude, giving her something pretentious sounding to brag about.
Victoria has always had a great appreciation of the arts and an intense love of the stage. Growing up, her family used to put on talent shows every summer where her eccentric- yet very talented- extended family would sing, dance, play instruments, and do full blown productions of plays. In high school she began acting and dancing in school productions. While attending USC, she began acting in student films and commercials.
After college, she took that long held love of performing and began pursuing a professional career as an actress. In 2013 she began her television career on the long running soap opera “Days of Our Lives” and the hit Showtime series “Dexter." She has filmed commercials for brands such as Budweiser, Toyota, Gap, Valley View Casino, and many more. As a model, she’s been featured in everything from FHM Magazine to charity pin up calendars to major commercial print ads to coffee table books and art galleries across the country and abroad.
In 2018, she began writing and producing with her partner Eric Williford. Their half hour pilot "Tithes" has been a semi finalist in multiple competitions including The Script Lab and We Screenplay. Their one hour drama pilot script The Other City was a semi finalist at the highly competitive Austin Film Festival. Their latest project, the comedic webseries DisGraced premiered in 2021, and has played in over 30 festivals, garnered over 20 award nominations and over 10 wins so far. They have two forthcoming horror features that will be dropping in 2022.
Victoria is a huge animal lover, a proud dog mom to three rescue pitbulls, and enjoys doing volunteer work with Best Friend’s Animal Society and NKLA. She’s also a self proclaimed foodie, which she credits to coming from a long line of fantastic Italian cooks; and an avid lover of traveling.
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