Erika Slezak

Erika Alma Hermina Slezak is an American actress, best known for her role as Victoria Lord on the American daytime soap opera One Life to Live from 1971 through the television finale in 2012 and again in the online revival in 2013. She is one of the longestserving serial actors in American media.

Slezak was born in Hollywood, California of Czech, Austrian and Dutch descent, the daughter of Tony awardwinning Austrian actor Walter Slezak and Johanna Kaasi Van Rijn, and the granddaughter of opera tenor Leo Slezak. She was born two months after her grandfather died. Raised in Greenwich, Connecticut, Slezak attended high school at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Eden Hall in Torresdale, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At age 17, she became one of the youngest individuals ever accepted into Londons prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, later graduating in 1966. Establishing a noteworthy reputation in theater, she performed in Milwaukee, Chicago, and Houston.

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