Victoria Rowell
@victoriarowell
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Actress, Producer, Director, Writer, American Ballet Theatre alum/JKO ballet teacher
Los Angeles, California
Joined April 2009
Oooo, baby it’s HOT outside! Stay cool, inspired & creative!
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Love portraying the widow, mother, grandmother, best friend, next door neighbor, making jams and solving a cold case.
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Ain’t no mountain high enough, to keep me from you, my beloved @kristoffstjohn1 —though denied for a decade, you never stopped requesting for us to be reunited @CBSDaytime @Sony pushing for #Diversity @YandR_CBS . True #BlackHistoryMonth #IDreamBlack history. Eternally I LOVE you.
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Heading to set with @diane_keaton on the movie SUMMER CAMP! Yep, she’s iconically amazing!
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Reunited with @BrytonEjames at the screening — at #NeuehouseHollywood dedicated to #kristoffstjohn
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My exclusive interview in tribute to Kristoff St. John:.
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@thesherylralph FRIENDS for over 25 years! Watch our network shows! @GoodSamCBS @AbbottElemABC thank you to ALL our loyal fans everywhere! #Jamaica #longevity
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#fallbackfriday —- stay on track and be a long distance runner! I look forward to filming this #summer !
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Leave a message at the beep. “Hey, Neil… it’s Dru just calling to say, I love & miss you.” @YandR_CBS @GoodSamCBS @diagnosismurder @paramountco @paramountplus — 22+ years and still going! 🙏🏽
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On “Summer Camp” set w/ friend @AlfreWoodard ….jsyk, Alfre delivers the best dry wit between her teeth! Can’t stop laughing. 🤣😂😭
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Hair/MU by Trevor Jackson, Locs by Rayna @SekaiHair aka Sekai Natural Hair Gallery/Los Angeles. Wardrobe by @curatorial_dept & hat by #WYETH #TheCanyonStore #Vintage
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#auntievicki UNhacked her account! THANKS to all who notified me and stayed on top of it since last year! 🙏🏽
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#NeilDruForever baby-joy #Lily #diversity #BlackRomance Kristoff helped pull in a tremendous consumer audience for @CBS @ProcterGamble . many advertisers.
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“And I have never used my position to hinder the advancement or careers of women,” Moonves responded. #LIAR your loafer heel has been on my neck for over 11 years all because I cited lack of substantive diversity at CBS behind the camera #MeToo #RetaliationIsIllegal #Bully.
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Sharing an afternoon w/friend @ReginaKing supporting foster care. #flashbackfriday - THX Regina for being one of the BEST on & off camera! Bravo on your work in youth financial literacy.
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CELEBRATING 20yrs of my enduring FOSTERCARE storyline, brilliantly portrayed by award-winning friend @brytonejames aka #DevonWinters 🔥🔥🔥@YandR_CBS @cbssoapsindepth This year's #NFCM theme “Engaging Youth. Building Supports. Strengthening Opportunities."
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As May 10th comes to a close, I celebrate my BIRTHday w/my courageous bio mom, who w/out any prenatal care, got to a hospital alone and oh, baby, what an adventure it’s been ever since! It doesn’t matter how y’get here…it matters what you do once you’re here! GRATITUDE 🙏🏽
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JUNETEENTH is today commemorating the freedom of the last enslaved African ancestors in the U.S. In 1865, Galveston, Texas.
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@kristoffstjohn1 loved life, his family, being an entertainer/filmmaker. One of the most generous people I’ve ever known. We stayed in touch. #NAACPImageAwards
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We remember #KristoffStJohn & his diversity efforts. He’d be #proud to know our friend, #SusanBanks has been hired as the 2nd black #WritersGuildofAmerica #writer since 1973 @WGAStaffBoost on #YoungandRestless @YR_CBS #NotInVain #EvenIronBends #blacklivesmatter
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#AuntieVicki at the inspiring Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC 🌸 🌸🌸 gardens designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted (Central Park)!
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Keeping it easy/breezy in #summer #hollywood fashions by @KutulaAfricana / 4438 W Slauson Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90043
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To my loyal @diagnosismurder @Viacom18Studios @paramountco @CBS #Amanda FANS I’m back in medical blues doing my thing in “BLENDED FAMILY” !!!
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We did the dang thang! BRAVO #SusanBanks #SusanDansby black writers hired since 1973 on @YandR_CBS thank you @NAACP @DDMTOWN and everyone who pushed to do the right thing!
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Days Ferry Productions is proud to announce legendary, DAWNN LEWIS @dawnn_lewis was submitted for #EMMY 2023 consideration for her searing SUPPORTING ACTRESS performance as “Corrine” in the movie, BLACKJACK CHRISTMAS! #Vote #ViacomBet + 🏆 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Let’s make it happen!
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Celebrating my neice @washnews wedding w/two amazing ppl…actresses I’ve known and had the honor of Directing @imvanessawilliams @Therealbrandee #friendship #fashion
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THANK YOU for all the beautiful birthday messages! You’ve been SO loyal throughout my career…and I am grateful. 🙏🏽 Watch my new show “GOOD SAM” @GoodSamCBS streaming on @paramountplus
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Celebrating on SET w/ @Leighannrose in #Detroit !!! SO proud of you @MishaelMorgan1 making history winning #BestLeadActress @TheEmmys in a #daytimedrama 🔥🔥🔥👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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Celebrate the season w/me as #MOM in this wonderful holiday #family movie w/fab TV daughters @NoreeVictoria @HairyKneeCaps #achristmasmiraclebetplus @betplus @ParamountMovies
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📺Tune into #WintersFamilyWeek starting tmrw on @cbstv @sonytv @YandR_CBS thank you for listening to #YRfans who never forgot the #Drucilla storyline inspired ALL #barber #winters characters w/exception to #auntmamie #nathan. from Neil Malcolm to Lily to Devon #WintersFamilyWeek
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THANK YOU all for my birthday wishes! Celebrating this #Taurus day filming #SummerCamp starring the indomitable #KathyBates —be sure to catch her on @cbstv #MATLOCK soon! 🎂
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I rest in our long history. Our TRUTH. Deepest condolences to YOU the fans too, who saw Kristoff as family.
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The most loving, enriching, funny, powerful teacher I’ve ever known, my foster mother, Agatha C. Armstead w/10 kids of her own, grands & greats, ran a 60acre farm in Maine, worked for Social Security! We dyed #Easter eggs from our chickens which she hid in her garden for us! 🙏🏽
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@NiecyNash WOW!!! Awesome to celebrate you and @thesherylralph w/colleagues, friends & family for your brilliant performances in TV & FILM !!! Sistah’s stickin’ together! @goldenglobes @RitzCarlton #wmpmillerevents “LETS GO”! 🔥🔥🔥👏🏽👏🏽🙏🏽❤️
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GREAT to see my adopted TV son (Devon) @BrytonEjames @YRInsider @DaytimeEmmys - hope he visits my set on #therichandtheruthless #bingewatchRR
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My niece @WashNews Stephanie Wash w/her husband, Etienne Maurice @walkgoodetienne celebrating their INCREDIBLE wedding day in #jamaica #goodhope #ancestors #family
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It’s SUPERMODEL @BeverlyJohnson1 y’all ! 1st Black Woman on the cover of @voguemagazine and NY Times Best Selling Author.
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To Mom’s who whatever reason gave up your baby/children to foster care/adoption, I still think of you . all the Mom’s who endure painful forced separation due to immigration. all my teen Mom’s facing ridicule, Mom’s who work in other countries & send money home, I LOVE YOU! ❤️.
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Thank you @IAmSteveHarvey for dedicating a show to our friend #KristoffStJohn who gave so much to his adoring public.
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It’s my birthday! Celebrating May is Nat’l Foster Care Month! I share my gratitude video of my MENTORS who advocated for diversity, educational excellence, housing, banking literacy, hard work, it’s ok 2be a slow winner, having faith in underserved youth!
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WE miss you #KristoffStJohn 1-800-622-HELP watch @etnow @KevinFrazier ET Tribute Tonight 2/8 at 7:30p
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Our son Jasper Marsalis, grad of CooperUnion/ Advancement Science&Art won Laura Margolius Memorial Commencement Prize
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What a remarkable person, artist, inspiration to generations— an elegant, uncompromising man who stood his ground & changed the paradigm. Rest in POWER Sidney Poitier. Condolences to your family.
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Y’all know black 🛁 #soapopera storylines get #HOT in the #SUMMER 👀👀🤩🤩👙👠!!! WATCH @YandR_CBS #YR faves @brytonjames @Brendaepperson reunite! Don’t get left out of the sticky hot mess #drama on #TheRichandtheRuthless @betplus
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On set w/ @Realeugenelevy my advice to fellow performers…be open to big & little screens & stages, work behind the scenes too! It all matters. Be a long distance runner, stay YOU, imaginative, thankful, a patient warrior. It’s an up/down biz, treasure friends & pay it forward.
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Representative John Lewis, encouraged me to push for justice and jobs where I worked. “Make a way out of no way.”
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Thrilled to announce my new #podcast “Secrets of a Soap Opera Diva” An entertaining & enlightening diversion from the serious topics of the day-Lights, Camera, Calamity, Claws & especially the SECRETS of Daytime television! .#SecretsofaSoapOperaDiva.#SOSOD.#SECRETS.#PodcastLife
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Awesome reuniting w/these guys! Worked w/both!!! Don’t miss their incredible LA “ART of DANCE” installation! #BryanAponte @terrelltilford @BandOfVices
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I’m filming in Canada and it’s -12 …oh, yeah, I’m lovin’ it!
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Happy Mother’s Day from the cast of “Blackjack Christmas” about motherhood & sisterhood all summer long on @betplus @bet @charminnoellee @kyriemcalpin @missleighannrose & @dawnn_lewis in abstentia #EMMYS #VOTE @sagindie
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I'm at ESSENCE Music Festival w/Kelly Price, Lorenz Tate, Karrueche. more
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@staceyabrams it was an honor! I cannot wait to see your next move 🔥🔥🔥@Yale grad, Powerhouse politician, lawyer, voting rights activist, author, Georgia House of Representatives from 2007-2017 #leader personified
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To #father unknown— still I search for you. Your power rooted within me. Know that I love you. If not for you, I would not be. #HappyFathersDay2020 to all!.
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Wow, Treat…incredibly kind and protective of us @ABTBallet dancers working on the movie HAIR set. Just a great person. #TreatWilliams #RIP
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DAY 15 directing thriller #TheNeighbor in Knoxville #Tennessee — producers, cast & crew are superb! @tvonetv @lifetimetv @LMN THANK YOU!
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Creativity has been my Mother, my bread, an anchor & fortress, my mentor, limitlessly inspiring…my greatest reward. At school when a nun asked me “why can’t you be like the other girls?” I replied, “Because I’m not” and ran to ballet class. #BeYou
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@thesherylleeralph WE kicked off 2025 right! Your #birthday 🎂 dinner was spectacular🔥🔥🔥in every way! #friendsfamily #love #goodfood @walkgoodetienne @ivycoco23 @namastemarleyrae @washnews @senvincenthughes @steak48 🙏🏽 @AbbottElemABC
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Time for another #throwbackthursday of a GREAT @mgmstudios movie “HOME of the BRAVE” red carpet - also starring @samuelljackson @50cent —gown by #NicoleMiller hair by Ruben Michael Hair / Los Angeles, CA (the BEST & still going strong!) .(310) 337-1892
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My gifted brother, David Alan Rowell. Rest in Power.
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Stay on the path. Stay inspired! #endurance #fitness ❤️#auntievicki #GoodSam @cbstv @paramountplus #mothernature
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Dearest @reginaking you make me burst with pride! You’ve been a constant reminder that hard work, the balancing act of motherhood in Hollywood, grace and staying in the race — ALL matter. Sending love & light!.
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#fallbackFriday @CBSDaytime #NathanPurdee #NathanHastings #Drucilla #DRU African American consumer viewers keep #YR #1 where is the economic inclusion of black directors, writers, producers, department heads??? 44 years & counting. WOW!
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