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Victoria Rowell on Growing Up in Foster Care, Teaching Herself Ballet & Never Giving Up
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49:03Now PlayingVictoria Rowell was a foster child on a farm in Maine who taught herself ballet from a book. That turned into a scholarship to the American Ballet Theatre, and eventually into one of the most recognizable careers in television. Drucilla Winters on The Young and the Restless, eight seasons on Diagnosis Murder with Dick Van Dyke, and Dumb and Dumber opposite Jim Carrey.
She has her own rule for making it through: the alternative was never an option. She explains what that meant for a 17 year old living alone in New York City, hiding her foster care status from everyone around her, and being the only person of color in the room.
We get into the women who raised her and why some people are meant to have many mothers, what Jim Carrey is actually like when the cameras roll, the movie she is determined to make about her life and who she wants to play her, why she started writing and directing her own material when the right doors would not open, and what has gotten better as she has gotten older.
Learn more about Victoria:
The Women Who Raised Me
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