1. Idara Victor was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Barbara and Stan Victor, both from Akwa Ibom State in southern Nigeria, and she is the middle child of three girls, who grew up in Brooklyn and Long Island, New York.
10 Facts About Idara Victor
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Idara Victor was discovered by an agent at a fashion show commitment, and pushed towards a career in modeling, but she intended to pursue an acting career.
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When Idara Victor graduated, she left a job offer at InStyle magazine, started making music with her friend Mike "Double-O", and began training at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, a conservatory of the Tisch School of the Arts.
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Idara Victor developed her artist community with many friends from the NYU program, and her friend Hyun Kim linked her up with the Nigerian-American actress Adepero Oduye for mentoring support.
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Idara Victor continued training and working in New York, and soon booked work over the next two years at The Public Theater, Lincoln Center, and the Roundabout Theater Company, to work with the directors Susan Stroman, Joanne Akalaitis, James Lapine, Stafford Arima and Tina Landau.
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Idara Victor is a natural operatic soprano, sang Joplin's ragtime opera Treemonisha, and performed at the 85th Academy Awards.
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Idara Victor played in recurring and lead roles in various television series, among them The Young and the Restless, Unicorn Plan-It, Vegas and Issa Rae's The Choir.
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Idara Victor performed live in New York in 2008 in a televised production of Camelot with the New York Philharmonic.
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Idara Victor became a member of the regular cast of the season 6, replacing the late Lee Thompson Young.
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Idara Victor appeared in the 2019 film Alita: Battle Angel from writer and producer James Cameron and director Robert Rodriguez, playing opposite Christoph Waltz.