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Victoria Rowell |
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PROFILE:
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Name: Victoria Rowell
Birth Name: Victoria Lynn Rowell
Sex: F
Nationality: American
Birth Date: May 10, 1960
Birth Place: Portland, Maine, USA
Profession: Actress
Education: School of American Ballet, New York City, New York
American Ballet Theatre, New York City, New York
Dance Theatre of Harlem, Harlem, New York City, New York
Husband/Wife: Tom Fahey (married in 1989; divorced in 1990)
Relationship: Wynton Marsalis (jazz musician; born on October 18, 1961)
Mother: Dorothy Rowell
Sister: Sheree Rowell, Lori Rowell
Son: Jasper Armstrong (father: Wynton Marsalis)
Daughter: Maya Fahey (father: Tom Fahey)
Claim to fame: Her roles in both soap operas and in television as Drucilla Winters on 'The Young & The Restless' and as Dr. Amanda Bentley on 'Diagnosis: Murder'.
Contact: Click here
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- Was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters by the University of Southern Maine in recognition of her work for the benefit of foster children. (May 2006)
- Pulled out of getting anymore NAACP Image awards. She wants to let other people get the chance.
- Was a foster child for the first eighteen years of her life.
- Founded the Rowell Foster Children's Fine Arts Scholarship Fund, which provides ballet classes for foster children.
- A professional dancer since the age of 17, Rowell received scholarships to the School of American Ballet, the American Ballet Theatre and the Dance Theatre of Harlem. She later went on to dance with the American Ballet Theatre II.
- During the first few years of the run of Diagnosis Murder (1993), Rowell not only appeared on that show but also continued her long running role of Drucilla on The Young and the Restless (1973).
- Is a member of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Incorporated
- Her biological mother, Dorothy Rowell, was white, and her father was African-American. She never knew her father or anything about him, except that his last name is Wilson and he lives in Washington, and is involved in the real-estate business.
- Both of Victoria's real life kids have appeared on Diagnosis Murder.
- Nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series at Daytime Emmy Awards for The Young and the Restless (1998)
- Nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series at Daytime Emmy Awards for The Young and the Restless (1997)
- Nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series at Daytime Emmy Awards for The Young and the Restless (1996)
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