Victoria O'Keefe(1969-1990)
- Actress
Victoria O'Keefe was born on March 27, 1969 in England. Victoria
attended St. Joseph's RC School, St. John Fisher RC High School, and
Dewsbury College in Dewsbury, England. She joined the Dewsbury Arts
Group at age eleven. O'Keefe played the title character in the
children's TV mini-series "Letty" and World War II evacuee Nicole Burke
on two episodes of the TV show "Nanny." Victoria gave a very strong and
impressive performance in the powerful BBC docudrama "Threads" as Jane,
a laconic and apathetic teenager who's forced to live a grim and
thankless existence in a harsh and unforgiving world that's been
ravaged by a nuclear war. O'Keefe acted in stage productions of the
plays "Beauty and the Beast," "All My Sons," and "Daisy Pulls It Off"
for the Dewsbury Arts Group. Her final film role was the female lead in
the fifteen minute short "Positively Negative." Victoria's life was
tragically cut short at age twenty-one when she was killed in an
automobile accident on the M62 motorway nearby Bold, Merseyside,
England on April 18, 1990.
