---
name: "Victoria Dillard"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/victoria-dillard"
fi1m_id: "victoria-dillard"
imdb_id: "nm0226851"
tmdb_id: 172103
wikidata_id: "Q528038"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "20 September 1969"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 77
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-03T08:11:24.982732+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Victoria Dillard

## Identity

Victoria Dillard

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/victoria-dillard
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** victoria-dillard
- **IMDb ID:** nm0226851
- **TMDB ID:** 172103
- **Wikidata ID:** Q528038
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Dillard, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q528038, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0226851/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/172103

Actor. Born 20 September 1969 in New York City, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 20 September 1969, New York City, New York, USA
- **Active:** 1987–1992
- **Average Fi1m score:** 77, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 80 (2), 1990s 72 (1)
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Action 1, Action & Adventure 1, Comedy 1, Crime 1, Drama 1, Mystery 1
- **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $305m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Dillard, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q528038, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0226851/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/172103

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Deep Cover*](https://film.one/film/deep-cover.md) (72)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## 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.

*Sources: imdb.com, catalog.afi.com, encyclopedia.com, en.wikipedia-on-ipfs.org.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Deep Cover* (1992), Fi1m 72, as Betty McCutcheon — [page](https://film.one/film/deep-cover.md)
- *Coming to America* (1988), Fi1m 76, as Bather / Dancer — [page](https://film.one/film/coming-to-america.md)
- *Star Trek: The Next Generation* (1987), Fi1m 84, as Ballerina — [page](https://film.one/tv/star-trek-the-next-generation.md)

## Complete filmography (25)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Ali* (2001), as Betty Shabazz
- *Law & Order: Criminal Intent* (2001), series, as Sharon Adams
- *Hood Rat* (2001), as Ms. Cameo
- *Commitments* (2001), Actor
- *The Best Man* (1999), as Anita
- *Family Law* (1999), series, as Marcia Henderson
- *The Ditchdigger's Daughters* (1997), as Taas
- *Spin City* (1996), series, as Janelle Cooper
- *Moesha* (1996), series, as Beverly
- *Out-of-Sync* (1995), as Monica Collins
- *Chicago Hope* (1994), series, as Nadine Winslow
- *The Glass Shield* (1994), as Barbara Simms
- *Killing Obsession* (1994), as Jean Wilson
- *TriBeCa* (1993), series, Actor
- *Martin* (1992), series, as Sharon
- *Deep Cover* (1992), as Betty McCutcheon — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/deep-cover.md)
- *Ricochet* (1991), as Alice
- *Roc* (1991), series, as Suzanne
- *Law & Order* (1990), series, as Belinda Gardner — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md)
- *Nasty Boys* (1990), series, as Nicole Stanhope
- *Internal Affairs* (1990), as Kee
- *Seinfeld* (1989), series, as Agency Rep — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/tv/seinfeld.md)
- *Coming to America* (1988), as Bather / Dancer — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/coming-to-america.md)
- *Star Trek: The Next Generation* (1987), series, as Ballerina — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/star-trek-the-next-generation.md)
- *L.A. Law* (1986), series, as Regina Cole

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