Biography
Victoria Dillard is an American actress. She trained as a dancer with the Dance Theatre of Harlem from the age of five until eighteen, appearing in productions including Porgy and Bess at the Metropolitan Opera, and later toured in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
Her film credits include a role in Coming to America (1988), Internal Affairs (1990), Ricochet (1991), Deep Cover (1992) as Betty McCutcheon, The Glass Shield (1994), The Best Man (1999) and Ali (2001) as Betty Shabazz. On television she played Janelle Cooper in the sitcom Spin City from 1996 to 2000, and appeared in episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Seinfeld, Law & Order and Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
Dillard has been an advocate for Parkinson's disease research since her diagnosis in 2005.
