Victoria Tennant trained for eight years at the Elmhurst Ballet School and for two years at the Central School for Speech and Drama in London. In her first film, she starred in the title role of The Ragman's Daughter, written by Alan Sillitoe (The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner) and directed by Harold Becker. Subsequent films include All Of Me with Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin, LA Story with Steve Martin, Stranger's Kiss opposite Peter Coyote, The Plague opposite William Hurt, and The Handmaid's Tale with Natasha Richardson and Robert Duvall.

Extensive television work began with Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for the fifteen hour miniseries, The Winds of War, opposite Robert Mitchum and includes the six hour miniseries, Chiefs, with Charlton Heston and Danny Glover, the three hour television movies, Dempsey with Treat Williams and Sam Waterston and Under Siege with Hal Holbrook, the eight hour miniseries, The Man From Snowy River, with Guy Pearce, and the thirty hour miniseries, War and Remembrance, for which she received her second Emmy nomination. She appeared in Lifetime movie William and Kate and the independent features Cold Turkey and After The Fall.

Among her many guest starring roles are appearances on The Beast with Patrick Swayze, Monk, Scrubs, Providence, Diagnosis Murder, Hitchcock, and The Chris Isaak Show. She also wrote and co-produced the film Edie and Pen starring Stockard Channing, Jennifer Tilly and Scott Glenn for HBO and produced Sister Mary Explains It All starring Diane Keaton for Showtime.

Ms. Tennant's work in the theatre includes the Santa Barbara Theatre Company's production of Doubt by John Patrick Shanley, for which she won the Santa Barbara Independent's Indie award, The Vagina Monologues at the Canon Theatre and the Napa Valley Opera House, The Misalliance at LA Theatreworks, Love Letters at Steppenwolf in Chicago, Getting Married at Circle-in-the-Square on Broadway, and The Taming of the Shrew at the Westport Playhouse.

Ms. Tennant's extensive voiceover work includes loop group for the entire 4th and 5th seasons of Mad Men as well as work on various episodes of Brothers and Sisters, Gossip Girl, Breakout Kings, Fairly Legal, Facing Kate, Viva Laughlin, Outlaw, V.I.P. and Warehouse 13.