Victoria Pedretti (born March 23, 1995 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American actress who is best known for her roles as Nell Crain in The Haunting of Hill House (2018) and Love Quinn in You. She's also known for being incredibly fun during interviews.
Selected Filmography:
- The Haunting of Hill House (2018) (2018) as Nell Crain, her Star-Making Role.
- You (2018) (2019-2021) as Love Quinn
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) as Leslie "Lulu" Van Houten
- Shirley (2020) as Katherine
- Amazing Stories (2020) - as Evelyn Porter in "The Cellar"
- The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020) - as Dani Clayton, the main character in the
Spiritual Sequel to The Haunting of Hill House (2018).
Tropes found in Victoria Pedretti's work:
- Broken Bird: Plays a lot of these.
- Casting Gag: She has a role in Shirley, which is about author Shirley Jackson; she had of course played a loose version of Shirley's character Nell in Hill House.
- Dye Hard: She's brunette in Hill House and blonde in Bly Manor and You.
- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: At around 5'4, most of her love interests tend to tower over her.
- Large Ham: She's expressive, energetic and has an extensive theater background, so any of her roles are prone to Chewing the Scenery (particularly in the Haunting shows).
- Nice Girl: Many of her roles have seen her play kind, good-natured and charming characters. Even the ones who are evil are often outwardly friendly.
- Playing Against Type: Normally cast as sympathetic Broken Birds (see above), she starred as a member of the Manson Family in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
- Star-Making Role: Everyone knew who she was when The Haunting of Hill House (2018) premiered.
- Typecasting: She has a twin brother who's an addict in both Hill House and You.
- Underage Casting: She was only 22 playing the 30-year-old Nell in Hill House. Although most of Nellie's adult scenes happen in flashbacks years before her death, so this isn't too glaring. But notably, Oliver Jackson-Cohen plays her twin brother Luke despite being nine years older (although in his case him looking older could be justified due to Luke's drug addiction).
- What Could Have Been:
- She was attached to star as Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones, in a film adaptation of Sebold's memoir Lucky. However, she dropped out and the film was subsequently shelved after the man convicted of raping Sebold (a major subject of the memoir) was exonerated in 2021.
- She was set to star in Hulu's series Saint X but left the project in 2022 due to Creative Differences.
