- Vicki grew up in Jefferson City and got her undergraduate degree in Accounting from the University of Missouri. She worked 2 years for Deloitte-Touche in Kansas City, MO, as an auditor. While auditing, she realized she most enjoyed analyzing investment portfolio accounts so transitioned into brokerage operations at a regional bank in KC. Two years later she accepted a job with Wells Fargo Bank, NA, as an assistant VP/manager of domestic instrument operations of the Funding Group Division in downtown San Francisco.
She met her husband while in San Francisco. He was a US Navy officer who whisked her away to various cities to which he was assigned - including Yokosuka, Japan, for nearly 2 years.
They have three sons. Nick, Phillip, and Cameron, all of whom have been actors.
- IMDb mini biography by: Self
- SpouseMike Palatas(1986 - present) (3 children)
- The entire family were the principals in a Walmart-Sony Playstation commercial Christmas 2002, giving Nick and Cameron the desire to pursue acting as a career.
- Was a non-equity chorus member of the Broadway Touring Company's performance of "Jesus Christ Superstar" at the Starlight Theater in Kansas City, MO, starring David Cassidy, Nicolette Larson, and Patrick Jude. Her feature role was, as she calls it, "downstage right leper".
- Related to Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama through her 6th great grandparents, David and Ann Terrell Lewis.
- Through her father's family, she is related to Rush and David Limbaugh and Kevin Costner.
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