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06/15/2019 – Pedretti – 2019 MTV Movie and TV Awards – Arrivals – Barker Hangar, 3021 Airport Avenue – Santa Monica, CA, USA – Photo Credit: / PRPhotos.com
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Date of Birth: March 23, 1995
Ethnicity: * father – Italian (5/8ths), Swiss-Italian (1/8th), along with Austrian and Sudeten German * maternal grandfather – English, German * maternal grandmother – Ashkenazi Jewish
Victoria Pedretti is an American actress. She is known for her roles on the series The Haunting of Hill House , You , Amazing Stories , and The Haunting of Bly Manor , and in the films Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood , Shirley (2020), Star-Crossed: The Film , Origin , Ponyboi , and Forbidden Fruits .
Her father is of five eighths Italian, and one eighth Swiss-Italian, descent, with his other roots being Austrian and Sudeten German. Victoria’s maternal grandfather was of English and German descent. Victoria’s maternal grandmother was Ashkenazi Jewish. Victoria was raised Jewish and had a Bat Mitzvah ceremony.
She grew up partly in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania.
Victoria’s paternal grandfather was William Charles Pedretti (the son of Peter Pedretti and Margaret Malin). William was born in Wisconsin. Peter was born in Wisconsin, to Italian parents, Stephen Pedretti, from San Bernardo ai Monti, Lombardy, Italy, and Adelaide Lombardi, from Locarno, Switzerland. Vitoria’s great-grandmother Margaret was the daughter of Franz Joseph Malin, from Göfis, Austria; and of Margaret Marie Guentner, from Eger/Cheb, Bohemia, who likely was a Sudeten German.
Victoria’s paternal grandmother was Agnes M. Venner (the daughter of Thomas Bartholomew Venner and Mary Caroline Nicoletti). Agnes was born in Wisconsin. Thomas was born in Wisconsin, to Italian parents, from Campodolcino, Lombardy, John Baptist Venner and Mary Madeline Starlochi. Victoria’s great-grandmother Mary was born in Trieste, Italy, the daughter of John B. Nicoletti and Margarita Gabrieli.
Victoria’s maternal grandfather was Horace Greeley Bradley (the son of Charles W. Bradley and Sarah Elizabeth Heller). Horace was born in Pennsylvania. Charles was born in Pennsylvania, to English parents, Charles Bradley and Jane Weir. Sarah was the daughter of George Potter Heller and Lucinda Ruddy/Rudy.
Victoria’s maternal grandmother was Augusta “Gussie” Boreth (the daughter of Morris Boreth and Rebecca Rudick/Rudik). Augusta was born in Pennsylvania, to Jewish parents, from Russia and Lithuania, respectively. Morris was the son of David Solomon Shinitzki and Zlata Sophie Stumiekl. Rebecca was the daughter of Yankel Jacob Rudik and Peshie Sitovitch.
Sources: Victoria’s maternal grandfather, Horace Greeley Bradley, on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Victoria’s maternal grandmother, Augusta “Gussie” Boreth, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org