VICTORIA TENNANT trained for eight years at the Elmhurst Ballet School and for two years at the Central School for Speech and Drama in London. ln her first film, she starred in the title role of The Ragman's Daughter, written by Alan Sillitoe (The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner) and directed by Harold Becker. Subsequent films include All Of Me (dir. Carl Reiner) with Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin, L.A. Story (dir. Mick Jackson) with Steve Martin, Stranger's Kiss (dir. Matthew Chapman) with Peter Coyote, The Plague (dir. Luis Puenzo) with William Hurt, The Handmaid's Tale (dir. Volker Schlondorff) with Natasha Richardson and Robert Duvall, The Holcroft Covenant (dir. John Frankenheimer) with Michael Caine, Louder Than Words (dir. Antony Fabian) with David Duchovny and Timothy Hutton.

Extensive television work began with Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for the fifteen hour miniseries, The Winds of War, opposite Robert Mitchum and includes the six hour miniseries, Chiefs, with Charlton Heston and Danny Glover, the three hour television movies, Dempsey with Treat Williams and Sam Waterston and Under Siege with Hal Holbrook, the eight hour miniseries, The Man From Snowy River, with Guy Pearce, and the thirty hour miniseries, War and Remembrance, for which she received her second Emmy nomination. She appeared in The Beast with Patrick Swayze, Monk, Scrubs, Providence, Diagnosis Murder, Hitchcock, and The Chris lsaak Show.

She also wrote and co-produced the film Edie and Pen starring Stockard Channing, Jennifer Tilly and Scott Glenn for HBO and produced Sister Mary Explains lt All starring Diane Keaton for Showtime.

Ms. Tennant's work in the theatre includes the Santa Barbara Theatre Company's production of Doubt by John Patrick Shanley, for which she won the Santa Barbara lndependent's lndie award, The Vagina Monologues at the Canon Theatre and the Napa Valley Opera House, The Misalliance at LA Theatreworks, Love Letters at Steppenwolf in Chicago, Getting Married at Circle-in-the-Square on Broadway, and The Taming of the Shrew at the Westport Playhouse.

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and the Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Divislon have launched a new Fellows Program, created to explore and highlight the Dance Division's exceptional collections. Victoria Tennant is among the first six Fellows. She wrote about her research in the Jerome Robbins Dance Division for her book on her mother, ballerina lrina Baronova. The Library acquired the lrina Baronova collection from Tennant in 2011.