Victoria Abril (born Victoria Merida Rojas, July 4, 1959) is a highly respected Spanish film actress. She is most known to international audiences for her performance in the movie ¡Átame! (Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!) by director Pedro Almodóvar.
Victoria Abril was born in Madrid. Besides working in Spain she also made films in France, where she resides, and Italy. She has been nominated eight times for Goya Awards in the Lead Actress category and has won once.
She is also a singer; in 2005 she released her debut, a bossanova-jazz album called PutchEros do Brasil. She tried to represent Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1979 with "Bang-Bang-Bang" but came second last with just one point in the national final, losing to Betty Missiego with 26 out of a maximum 29.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Victoria Abril
Victoria Zdrok
Dr. Victoria Nika Zdrok (born March 3, 1973 in Kiev, Soviet Union) is a Playboy Playmate, Penthouse Pet of the Year, a star of elaborate adult videos, an attorney, a clinical psychologist, sex therapist and former goodwill ambassador. Victoria Zdrok is currently a columnist for Penthouse Magazine with her Ask Dr Z monthly column being one of the most popular in the magazine. In addition she’s hosting the Sirius Satellite show The Sex Connection and is appearing regularly on FOX News and Geraldo At Large. She has a new book coming out in January 2008 entitled Dr Z on Scoring: How to Pick Up, Seduce and Hook Up with Hot Women.
As a child in the former Soviet Union, Victoria listened to Voice of America on her father's clandestine radio and diligently studied English with the hope of one day coming to America. In 1989, at the age of 16, she was honored as the first Soviet teenager allowed to come to the U.S. as a foreign exchange student. She arrived on an academic scholarship, as she describes it, as "a sort of ambassador of goodwill and perestroika and glasnost."
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