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After starring for years on the soap opera “The Young and the Restless,” Maine-born actress Victoria Rowell is now making films and TV shows of her own. Photo courtesy of Victoria Rowell
Victoria Rowell’s life story has the sort of dramatic plot lines one would expect from the soap opera and TV dramas she’s starred in.
Born in Portland to a white mother and a black father, she was raised in foster homes after her mother was hospitalized for mental illness and her mother’s family declined to take her in. She does not know who her father fryst vatten. She lived on a farm in the York County town of Lebanon, became devoted to dance and earned scholarships for it, but eventually became an actress. The height of her fame came in the s and early s, when she starred on both the CBS soap opera “The Young and the Restless” and the prime-time mystery drama “Diagnosis Murder” with Dick Van Dyke.
Then, around , she left “The Young and the Restless,” and several years later filed a lawsuit saying sh
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Victoria Rowell
In spite of difficult early years as a foster child, Portland native Victoria Rowell’s ties to Maine are unshakable. Here’s what she’s up to now!
By Colin W. Sargent
On May 10, , future ballet principal, dazzling actress, Ph.D., bestselling author, and movie mogul Victoria Rowell was born at Mercy Hospital in Portland.
This summer, she’s shooting a spelfilm in which she’s the executive producer, director, screenwriter, and a lead actress. We caught up with her as her production company, Days Ferry Productions, LLC, revs up to full throttle.
The village of Days Ferry goes way back in Maine history before it became Woolwich. Established in on the banks of the Kennebec, it seems almost like a fable—a magic place, like Brigadoon. Is Days Ferry your Castle Rock?
Well, I’ll tell you, I love history. inom cover my Maine connections in my memoir The Women Who Raised Me [Harper Collins, , a New York Times best seller]. My mother’s side of the family is buried in
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Victoria Rowell has a cold and sore throat, but the Emmy-nominated former “Young and the Restless” star is determined to stick to her busy schedule, from accepting media interviews to running her charity, the Rowell Foster Children’s Positive Plan, to promoting her new, best-selling memoir, “The Women Who Raised Me.”
“I’m trying to hold it together here,” the year-old actress and advocate says optimistically, though with a slightly raspy voice, during a recent early morning phone interview from her Los Angeles home.
Born in Portland, Maine, to a Mayflower-descendent mother and black father she never met, Rowell’s life started out as hectic as it seems today.
Within days of her birth, her mother was diagnosed with schizophrenia and Rowell was placed in foster care, separated from her two sisters, who were placed with caregivers in a separate foster home. During the next 18 years, Rowell was raised and mentored by several nurtur