About Victoria Tennant
Victoria Tennant (born 30 September 1950) is a British actress. She is known for her roles in the TV miniseries The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, in which she appeared as actor Robert Mitchum's on-screen love interest, Pamela Tudsbury, as well as her supporting roles in All of Me (1984), The Holcroft Covenant (1985), Flowers in the Attic (1987), The Handmaid's Tale (1990), and L.A. Story (1991). == Early life and education == Tennant was born on 30 September 1950 in London, England, to Irina (née Baronova; 1919–2008) and Cecil Gordon Tennant (1910–1967). Her father, from a junior branch of a family of minor Yorkshire gentry resident at Kilnsey, was a producer and talent agent for MCA; her mother was a Russian prima ballerina from Saint Petersburg who appeared with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Tennant's maternal grandfather, Mikhail Baronov, was a senior officer in the Imperial Russian Navy; his wife, the former Lydia Vishniakova, was a general's daughter. Tennant has a sister, Irina, and a brother, Robert, both of whom were seriously injured in a car crash in 1967 that killed their father. Tennant's godfather was the actor Laurence Olivier. Like her mother, Tennant trained in ballet, first at the Elmhurst Ballet School and then (for two years) at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. == Career == After a number of roles in British and other European films, including The Ragman's Daughter (1972) and Inseminoid (1981), Tennant emigrated to the United States. She went to appear in films Strangers Kiss (1983), All of Me (1984) with Steve Martin, her future husband, and The Holcroft Covenant (1985).
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