Victoria Redel

Victoria Redel (born 1959) is an American poet and fiction writer who lives in New York City.

Other actors in the film include Oliver Platt, Marisa Tomei, Matt Dillon, and Sandra Bullock.

Redel is a first generation American born into a Jewish family of Belgian-Polish, Romanian and Egyptian descent.

He and his parents were among the 86 passengers on the ship the Quanza who were initially refused entry into the United States and Mexico and were about to be returned to Lisbon.

She grew up in Scarsdale, New York, is a graduate of Dartmouth College and received an MFA in poetry from Columbia University.