Victoria Pedretti of "The Haunting of Bly Manor" Is Netflix's Queen of Horror
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Victoria Pedretti plays Dani in The Haunting of Bly Manor, a new series on Netflix.
The 25-year-old actress has also starred in The Haunting of Hill House and season 2 of You.
Below, everything to know about Pedretti, Netflix's unofficial queen of horror.
If you see Victoria Pedretti's name pop up in a Netflix show, then you know a scare is coming. The 25-year-old actress (and Hillary Duff lookalike) has appeared in some of the streaming service's most popular genre fare, from You to her most recent show, The Haunting of Bly Manor.
Back when Bly Manor was filming, Pedretti told OprahMag.com her trick for staying positive, even as the subject matter was grim. "You gotta keep it light. Ghosts and ghouls standing directly in front of you are not as scary as they’re made out on television. It's fun work," Pedretti said.
In fact, Pedretti doesn't find Netflix's Haunting series exclusively scary. "Haunting is, at the end of the day, a beautiful, dramatic journey with heartwarming moments," she said.
Still, she even if she's not scared by the show, she's shocked by its twists. Speaking to OprahMag.com in another interview ahead of Bly Manor's premiere, Pedretti reveals she was floored by her character's fate. "I can't expect anything with these stories. There are so many twists and turns. I remember when the story was laid out to me in a meeting, I was pretty floored. It's very intense," she said.
We'll try to remind ourselves of her positive attitude as we watch her Dani encounter those ghosts and ghouls in Bly Manor's creaky old mansion. Here's what you need to know about Pedretti.
Victoria Pedretti's breakout role was in The Haunting of Hill House.
Pedretti's first-ever acting gig was as Eleanor "Nell" Crain Vance in Netflix's hit horror series The Haunting of Hill House, based on Shirley Jackson's novel of the same name. Much like her character in You, Nell was also a grieving widowed wife...fighting to protect a twin brother with substance abuse issues. But though they have eerily similar back stories, that's where the comparisons end.
"They do not internalize any of these experiences in the same way," Pedretti told W magazine. "[Love's] very self possessed and I really like that. Especially after playing somebody who strained a lot trying to figure out who she was in the world."
She elaborated to OprahMag.com, saying, "It became clear that these are almost opposite characters. That was a real wonderful progression. To be able to explore the same experiences with individuals who react differently."
She also starred as Joe Goldberg's love interest in You.
Much like her characters in Hill House and Bly Manor, Pedretti's character in You is associated with a major twist. Let's just say that Love Quinn, heiress to the fortune of an L.A. health store, is not who she first appears to be.
And before you ask if she's single, it looks like she's not dating anyone.
With a quick scan of Pedretti's recent red carpet appearances and a look at her not super-active Instagram account, it seems that the up-and-comer might currently be a single lady. However, she did open up to Cosmopolitan about a past breakup that she got over with the help of Wawa mac and cheese. Relatable? We think so.
What we were able to find out from a look at her social media account: She seems to have a super-close group of girlfriends—and they're adorable.
She graduated from the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama.
Dubbed the "oldest degree-granting drama program in the United States," Pedretti—who grew up in Philadelphia—graduated from the Pittsburgh University in 2017 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and was cast as Nell soon after.
“The thing about being an actor is that nobody tells you what you’re supposed to do,” Pedretti told Flaunt magazine in October. “You kind of define that for yourself. Nobody is going into your journal, checking your notes. It’s on you. You decide what that means to you. And to me, my responsibility as an actor is to bring characters to life. Not stereotypes. Not tropes. But to bring true human people to life so that audiences can have their own relationship with them. That’s all.”
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