A former Canadian track and field champion, Victoria most recently starred in the Spelling Television pilot Forbidden Island. She also starred in the action series John Woo's Once a Thief that aired on Showtime following its Canadian run, and guest-starred in the two-part opener of Xena: Warrior Princess last season.

Victoria was born and raised in Chesley, Ontario, a small town north of Toronto. Extremely athletic as a very young child, she began her lifelong love of competitive sports playing soccer with the town league. She started jogging in grade school, joined a regional track team at 15 and quickly became a star in a wide variety of track and field events. Intense training and competition led to numerous prizes, including a medal at the 1990 Canadian Track & Field Championships.

Following high school, Victoria attended York University where she studied anatomy, biomechanics and sociology, among other disciplines, to earn a degree with honors in kinesiology. She graduated summa cum laude and went on to work at the University in its Human Performance Lab, testing such elite professional athletes as the Toronto Maple Leafs and Winnipeg Jets and San Jose Sharks. She was also offered a scholarship to the master's program in physiotherapy at the University of Toronto but declined, realizing she wanted to explore other interests.

She soon began writing a book on fitness and bodybuilding with one of her former university professors. When it was time to buy photos for the publication, she went to Robert Kennedy, publisher of MuscleMag, one of the largest fitness magazines, and Oxygen, a brand new magazine dedicated to women's fitness. He was extremely impressed by her look and signed her to a long-term contract with the two magazines as a writer and fitness model. When she revealed that her ultimate goal was a career in acting, Kennedy convinced her to study and she began taking classes at the Actors Network in Toronto.

Victoria soon broke into television as the on-air trainer on Go for It, The Discovery Channel series about caving, rafting and other non-traditional sports. In the show, she taught the hosts how to get in shape for their adventures. She also co-hosted Personal Edge, a fitness show that aired in Canada, before landing her first dramatic role in John Woo's Once a Thief only two days after signing with an agent in Toronto. Victoria was cast as young mob boss Jackie Janszik, who emerged as one of the series leads shortly after the launch of the show. Broadcast initially in Canada, the action hour was subsequently licensed to Showtime, which aired Victoria's first two episodes as the television movie The Jackie Janszik Files.

Last season, Victoria guest-starred as Queen of the Amazons in the two-part season premiere of Xena: Warrior Princess. She went on to land a starring role in the series pilot Forbidden Island before being cast as Sarge in Cleopatra 2525. Among her additional credits are a number of fitness videos, including Karatics: The Ultimate Workout, a project featuring karate moves, stretching and conditioning exercises that paired her up with Robert Fletcher, the North American kickboxing champion and three-time U.S.A. karate champion.

Victoria is a blue belt in Shotokan karate and her current favorite form of exercise is kickboxing. Despite her 12-14 hour shooting days, she generally works out six days a week, alternating routines to keep herself in top shape. As a result, she is able to do most of her own fights and stunts in the show.

Victoria is single and splits her time between Toronto and Los Angeles when not working in New Zealand, where Cleopatra 2525 is filmed.