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Victoria Mahoney is an American actress and filmmaker. Her debut feature was 2011’s Yelling to the Sky . Career. Acting. Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s Mahoney worked as an actress in largely unnamed roles, appearing in Seinfeld as the character Gladys [1] and in the movie Legally Blonde. [2] .
Dec 21, 2019 · Meet Victoria Mahoney. Mahoney is a self-professed “big-bad dreamer.” But as second unit director on “The Rise of Skyalker,” Mahoney is also the first woman to direct a “ Star Wars ” film. And...
Dec 17, 2019 · She responded with one name: Victoria Mahoney. Now, the filmmaker is making history as the first woman to direct a Star Wars movie, and if you think that sounds like a depressing statistic ...
Dec 14, 2019 · Thursday night. November 2017. I was tucked away in a rented house secretly writing a TV pilot based on Octavia Butler’s novel Dawn. Patty Jenkins had called that morning to ask if I’d like to ...
- Victoria Mahoney
Apr 18, 2018 · ‘Star Wars’: Filmmaker Victoria Mahoney Will Be First African-American Woman to Direct for Franchise. Director J.J. Abrams has tapped the filmmaker and producer to serve as second unit director...
Biography. Born and raised in New York, Mahoney developed her debut feature film "Yelling to the Sky" through the Directors and Screenwriters Sundance Institute Labs and was named an Auerbach Fellow, Annenberg Fellow, Cinereach Fellow, Maryland Fellow, Tribeca Fellow and IFP Narrative Lab fellow.
Dec 20, 2019 · Victoria Mahoney is the first woman and first person of color to direct in the “Star Wars” movie universe. In her role as second unit director, her crew would often come in right after J.J. Abrams directed a scene and shoot some needed sequences while Abrams moved on.
