34 Facts About Victoria Winters

Victoria "Vicki" Winters is a fictional character from the television Gothic soap opera Dark Shadows and its remakes of the same name.

Victoria Winters was the prominent character on Dark Shadows for its first year of existence.

Victoria Winters received her surname from the season in which she arrived in New York.

Victoria Winters quickly became indispensable to Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, both as governess to Elizabeth's troubled young nephew David Collins and companion to Elizabeth herself.

Victoria Winters became important as a family peacemaker, not to mention a stabilizing influence on Elizabeth's daughter, the rebellious Carolyn Stoddard and on the troubled David, son of Elizabeth's pompous and rather emotionally cold younger brother, Roger.

Slowly but surely, Victoria Winters managed to form a bond with David.

Victoria Winters kidnapped her and planned to kill her, but was frightened to death by the ghosts of Malloy, the Widows, and Josette Collins.

Victoria Winters was charmed, but was more concerned with Jason's hold on Elizabeth especially when he forced her into marriage and, on her wedding day to Jason, Elizabeth could take no more and finally admitted the truth behind Jason's hold on her: 18 years earlier, Elizabeth had killed her husband, Paul Stoddard, and that Jason, a friend of Paul's, had buried his body in the Collinwood basement in a trunk, and that Jason had been blackmailing her with this information.

Elizabeth mentioned that she had confided this to Victoria Winters and made her promise to keep this secret to herself.

Victoria Winters grows concerned about her friend Maggie, who becomes withdrawn and moody to everyone around her.

Victoria Winters is found with suspicious marks on her neck.

Victoria Winters is later institutionalized, and to protect her from the person who had kidnapped her, Maggie's father, Sam Evans, Joe Haskell, and Doctor Dave Woodard decide to make everyone in Collinsport, including Barnabas, believe that Maggie is dead, and she is kept well-guarded afterwards for some months.

Victoria Winters believes that Burke has somehow survived when his body cannot be found.

Victoria Winters arrives at the Old Collins House and meets Collins ancestors who look just like the 20th Century Collins family she knows, but with different names, personalities, and relationships.

Victoria Winters makes the mistake of describing the future to the denizens of the past; she is soon seized by the fanatical Reverend Trask and accused of witchcraft.

Victoria Winters convinced her, under his spell, to elope with him, even though deep down Victoria still had feelings for Peter Bradford.

Now known as Jeff Clark, Peter worked for Lang and became involved with Victoria Winters before learning his true identity.

When Vicky had the dream, she did her best to keep it from Barnabas, but to stop her pain, Barnabas, who genuinely cared for Victoria Winters now, made her tell him.

Victoria Winters then had the dream, woke up, and was bitten by a vampire bat, but survived.

Victoria Winters made him realize his true identity and planned to reunite with him, but Adam strangled her.

Victoria Winters remained behind in the year 1795 with Peter and was never seen again in the series.

Victoria Winters was thought to have lived happily ever after, but in 1970, the ghost of Peter Bradford appeared and told antique store owner Phillip Todd that Victoria Winters had been killed by the Leviathans, the same otherworldly creatures which were battling Barnabas Collins at that time.

Victoria Winters was last mentioned in 1970 when the ghost of Gerard Stiles haunted Collinwood.

Carolyn learns that her mother had a child out of wedlock; Victoria Winters is actually Carolyn's older sister.

Also, the roles of Maggie Evans and Victoria Winters were combined for the film.

Victoria Winters decides to become close to her and to try to make her fall in love with him.

At the party scene when Barnabas and Victoria Winters are outside Victoria Winters unmasks to him about her childhood and they kiss.

When Victoria Winters reawakens, her modest new fangs show she now is a vampire and she tells Barnabas to call her Josette.

However, these plans were eventually scrapped when the Dark Shadows production team decided that Victoria Winters would be Elizabeth's illegitimate daughter instead.

In 1987, Bennett recorded a special video for fans in which, in character as Elizabeth, revealed that Victoria Winters was her daughter.

Victoria Winters was briefly replaced twice, but neither actress was accepted by the audience.

Any and all plans for the character were ultimately shelved, and Victoria Winters was unceremoniously written out with an off-screen 18th-century death.

In Curse of the Pharaoh, Carolyn recalls Victoria Winters having once dated Frank Garner.

Victoria Winters was heavily referenced throughout And Red All Over, which featured the return of Mitchell Ryan as Burke Devlin.