Eva Victor

Eva Victor was born in Paris, France, in 1994. They attended what they recall an "intensely disciplined French speaking school". “I think I had this fantasy of a suburban life where, like, I drove a car and had Uggs and boyfriends and stuff,” Victor said of the experience. Victor went to The International School of San Francisco, a French-speaking high school, and sung in a choir. They went to college at Northwestern University to study acting, with a minor in playwriting. While there, Victor took part in comedy as part of the improv team. After graduating, they gained representation after performing a dramatic acting showcase. Victor is queer and non binary, and uses both they/them and she/her pronouns. They are a survivor of sexual assault, which served as an inspiration for Sorry, Baby, about a college literature professor named Agnes in rural Belfast, Maine who experiences the aftermath of a sexual assault by a faculty member. ==Career==

Victor began working at feminist satire website Reductress as an intern. They later became an associate editor and staff writer at Reductress. They have written for the New Yorker's Daily Shouts section and have appeared on MTV's Decoded. They performed some of these videos at a live event hosted by Buzzfeed in 2019. Victor also makes videos for Comedy Central. They primarily got into filmmaking during the COVID-19 pandemic and approximately went through a 100 films they have never seen before. The films that inspired them the most were Persona, In the Mood for Love, The Spirit of the Beehive, Burning, Margaret, and Losing Ground. They sublet their cousin's home in Rural Maine. Spending time secluding themselves in the midst of winter with just their cat to write the script and gain inspiration for their film Sorry, Baby, writing it in three weeks. They also shadowed filmmaker Jane Schoenberg on the set of I Saw The TV Glow, which further inspired the film. In 2025, Victor made their directorial debut and starred in Sorry, Baby produced by Barry Jenkins, which had its world premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. They won the festival's Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award. During a Q&A session with Le Cinema Club, Victor mentioned they had the goal of making the film "feel safe enough to laugh" despite the theme of depression and sexual assault. ==Filmography==

• Dating and New York (2021) as Jenna 'The Rebounds' Brookes • Boys Go to Jupiter (2024) as Gail 5000 (voice) • Sorry, Baby (2025; also writer and director) as Agnes • Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026) • Behemoth! (TBA) ==Awards and nominations==