Victoria Pedretti

Victoria Pedretti (born March 23, 1995) is an American actress. Her accolades include an MTV Award, a Saturn Award, and nominations for two Critics' Choice Awards. Pedretti rose to prominence for her work in the Netflix anthology series The Haunting, playing the supporting role of Eleanor "Nell" Crain in Hill House (2018) and the leading role of Danielle "Dani" Clayton in Bly Manor (2020), and for starring as Love Quinn in the Netflix thriller series You (2019–2023). She starred as Leslie Van Houten in the comedy-drama film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) and Katherine in the biographical-drama film Shirley (2020). Early life Pedretti was born in Philadelphia on March 23, 1995. Three of her father's four grandparents were Italian, while her maternal grandmother was Ashkenazi Jewish. Pedretti was raised Jewish, and had a bat mitzvah. She has said that she grew up in an emotionally abusive household, but said of her parents that she "love[s] them very much and they tried their best". She was diagnosed with ADHD when she was six years old. Pedretti attended Pennsbury High School in Fairless Hills, where she expressed an interest in musical theatre, and the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama in Pittsburgh, where she earned a BFA in acting in 2017. She revealed in a 2020 interview that she was told by her Carnegie Mellon teachers not to pursue acting: "They were like, 'I don't know if you're cut out for this. Maybe you should try directing.' And I was like, 'That's not easier.'"