Victoria Pedretti is an actress from the United States who was born on March 23, 1995. She is noted for her representations of unstable, evil characters and is described as a contemporary scream queen. An MTV Award has been bestowed upon her, as well as nominations for two Critics’ Choice Awards and a Saturn Award.
In both seasons of the Netflix anthology series The Haunting (2018–2020), Pedretti played distinct roles. She starred as Love Quinn inside the Netflix thriller series You (2019–2021) and as Leslie Van Houten in the comedy-drama film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) and Katherine in the biographical drama film Shirley (2019).
Pedretti was born in the United States state of Pennsylvania. Mike Pedretti, her father, is three-quarters Italian as well as her maternal grandmother was Ashkenazi Jewish. Pedretti celebrated her Bat Mitzvah. She mentioned inside a 2021 conversation that she raised raised inside an emotionally difficult family. “I love them very much,” she said of her parents, “as well as they went out of their way.” While she was six years old, she got diagnosed having ADD. Pedretti went to Pennsbury High School in Fairless Hills, wherein she showed an interest in musical theatre, as well as the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama in Pittsburgh, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting in 2017.
Pedretti gained to attention for her performance as Eleanor “Nell” Crain Vance in Netflix’s 2018 series The Haunting of Hill House. Her performance was praised, and she received Saturn Award as well as MTV Award nominations in 2019; she was quickly dubbed a modern-day scream queen. Pedretti has already said that portraying Dani help her become more comfortable with darker parts in the horror and thriller genres, adding that she had “a penchant for” them.
After viewing her prior acting work and connection with her co-star Penn Badgley, Pedretti auditioned for the role of Guinevere Beck on the thriller series You. Although she was first rejected, the filmmakers eventually selected her as Love Quinn in the show’s second season. Netflix premiered the second season on December 26, 2019, with Pedretti’s performance as well as the show receiving favourable reviews. She will resume her role in You for the third season, which will premiere on October 15, 2021. The actress stated that “This is hardly a programme where you’re like, ‘Nobody’s going to kiss.'” Filming took place during the COVID-19, and the personal sequences proved a problem for her to film. It’ll be all right.’
Also Read: Scooby-Doo Goes Hollywood: Tap to know about this animated series
