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Actor in Los Angeles, California, United States

Victoria Rowell
Biography:

January 2016, Rowell starred opposite Richard Brooks and Joyful Drake in Washington, DC play, "You Can't Hurry Love" by Patricia Cuffie-Jones. In 2015 Rowell starred and was Executive Producer on UPtv cable movie, A Baby For Christmas. UPtv boasts over 68 million subscribers worldwide. Rowell has participated in three of UPtv’s holiday movies, delivering the highest ratings in the networks history. Also in 2015, NETFLIX aired, Nov... Moreember Rule, which Rowell is featured in, produced by Queen Latifa’s production company, FLAVA UNIT. Theatrically released documentary, A Ballerina’s Tale, starring Misty Copland, was selected for the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, which Rowell appears in as an alumna of American Ballet Theater and diversity advocate in the arts. Misty Copeland recognizes Ms. Rowell as one of her mentors. In 2015, Ms. Rowell was invited by American Ballet Theater, Artistic Director, Kevin McKenzie to receive the American Ballet Theater/Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Teacher Training Accreditation.

Rowell, an advisor and a former board member of Americans For The Arts, was invited to speak on Capitol Hill in 2015 on behalf the nations underserved before an audience of 500, including Congressional members. In recognition of National Foster Care Month in May, at the request of Congresswoman Karen Bass, Rowell was invited to speak on Capitol Hill.

Rowell has been recognized by 193 members of Congress for advocacy on behalf of education, arts, foster and adoptive youth, parents, social workers and volunteers, and founded The Rowell Foster Children's Positive Plan, lasting twenty years, raising awareness and funds for arts scholarships and college stipends. Rowell was seen on the TODAY SHOW with Natalie Morales featuring foster care and adoption.

In 2014 she celebrated fifteen years of collaborative service with The Annie E. Casey Foundation, a charitable arm of United Parcel Service endeavoring to build better futures for disadvantaged children and families in the United States. Victoria has been a guest panelist for RACE FORWARD and Color Lines, a continued expression of her long term human and civil rights advocacy with an emphasis on diversity in the work place and racial justice through research, media, and practice.

Among many Commendations and two honorary doctorates from the University of Southern Maine and Wheelock College in Boston, Massachusetts, Victoria has been an invited advocate on Capitol Hill, a United States Conference of Mayors keynote speaker in Washington, D.C. She was awarded the prestigious United Nations Association USA-Pacific, Los Angeles Chapter Award in recognition of her contributions in education, human rights and world peace. Served on the board of American for the Arts, Princeton University Center for African American Studies Advisory (Eddie Glaude). Received The Black Women Physicians Award, The Madam C.J. Walker Legacy Award, Walter Mosley Author of Distinction Award. Victoria has received many arts awards and recognitions, including full scholarships to study classical ballet in New York City at American Ballet Theater and School of American Ballet.

Victoria received multiple civic awards, including The Betty Shabazz/Black Administration In Child Welfare ‘Dove Award’, The Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. Woman in Achievement Award, The LINKS, Inc. National (Elizabeth Catlette) Award for Exceptional Service to Youth. The Sojourner Truth Black Education & Cultural History Award (Portland, Maine). The Whitney M. Young Jr. Special Award. Court Appointed Special Advocates - Dallas, Texas Award, 100 Black Men Chairman’s Award.

Education, Arts & Philanthropic collaborations include, The National Association of Counties Arts Advocacy Award, The California Endowment, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Boston Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, The High Museum, The Roxbury Film Festival, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Booker T. Washington High School, Bethune Cookman College, Howard University, Spelman College, Tennessee State University Lifetime Achievement Award, University Southern California/Annenberg, UCLA, Department of Children Services, American Ballet Theater, Ballet Hispanico of New York, Havana, Cuba Biennial, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Hope Worldwide, The California Endowment, National Urban League NYC Advisory, Jack & Jill, Inc., NISSAN, NIKE, AT&T, Capital Bank, Wells Fargo Bank, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Metro Goldwyn Mayer, HBO, The Douglas Theater, TimeWarner/ESSENCE Music Festival, SonEdna Foundation, The National Black Theater Festival, Mississippi State/John Grisham Library, the National Book Fair, Washington, D.C., The Juilliard School of Music, The Robey Theater, The Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts, Dance Theater of Harlem, The Portland (Maine) School of Ballet, The Duke Ellington School of the Arts and more. Victoria has participated in support of The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Spotlight Awards, The Los Angeles Opera, The Tribeca Film Festival (jurist), American Federation of Radio Television Artists, Screen Actors Guild and The Television Academy. The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society/Philadelphia Flower Show, The Boston Flower & Garden Show, The Portland (Maine) Flower Show, Laura Turner Seydel/Captain Planet.

Entertainment/NEWS collaboratives include working with Milos Forman, Peter Medak, Jonathan Lynn, Irwin Winkler, Bobby & Peter Farrelly, Robert Townsend, Kasi Lemmons, Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Demarchelier, Bruce Webber, Sharon Stone, Misty Copeland, Branford Marsalis, Bruce Willis, Terri Lyne Carrington, Jan de Bont, Eddie Murphy, Dick Van Dyke, Denyce Graves, Jim Carey, Twyla Tharp, Aretha Franklin, Forest Whitaker, Beau Bridges, Colleen Atwood, Anne Roth, Harry Lennix, and Anthony Tudor. Studios: Warner Bros., MGM, CBS, BET, VIACOM, SONY, ABC, DISNEY, NBC, UPtv, NETFLIX, FOX, CNN.

Victoria’s global research and humanitarian travels include Africa, Haiti, Jamaica, Russia, India, Turkey, Cuba, Czechoslovakia and throughout Europe. Rowell has extensively documented her research and experiences through photojournalism.
Healthcare: Victoria has spoken at the Association for Black Cardiologists, the National Dental Association, received the coveted NAACP Roy Wilkins Humanitarian Award, the Marcus Garvey Bridge Builder Diaspora Award with Professor David Dinkins. Honored by New Jersey Association of Mental Health with Dr. James Nash (A Beautiful Mind) for mental health wellness. Victoria has been invited to speak at the YWCA Rochester, NY residential facility for women and families, The David and Margaret Home, St. Agnes Home/Hartford, CT, St. Anne’s/Los Angeles. She has spoken at multiple group homes, orphanages and housing facilities throughout the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii and abroad. Victoria has been invited to speak at juvenile detention centers, and Federal Correctional Institution/Danbury, Connecticut as well as other institutions.

Rowell's world view lectures include positive and empowering messaging, carving pathways to improved cultural communications and employment inclusion. Financial leadership has invited Rowell to lecture on community philanthropy. She discusses expanded diversity in corporate America and abroad, impacting future successes in a rapidly growing, culturally diverse world and closing wealth gaps.

Rowell has two adult children, Maya and Jasper and resides in Los Angeles, California.

Theatrical Representation: Shelter Entertainment c/o Andy Howard office: 310.550.0824 cell: 818.209.3000

Theatrical Legal Representation: Darrell Miller/Fox Rothschild LLP Dmiller@foxrothschild.com c/o BWilkins@foxrothschild.com

Speaking Requests Contact: Days Ferry Productions, LLC Vpavlova@aol.com or HarperCollins Speakers Bureau c/o Eve.Josephson@harpercollins.com 212.207.7000
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