Bio
Victoria Smurfit is an Irish actress best known for her starring role as Lady Jayne Wetherby, a fashionable huntswoman who is immediately enticed by the King of Vampires, in the horror drama television series Dracula.
A native of Dublin, Smurfit is a member of one of Ireland's most prominent families. Educated at St. Columba's College in Dublin and St. George's School in Ascot, England, she finished her studies at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
In 1997, she introduced herself to television viewers on the BBC series Ivanhoe followed by the BBC miniseries Berkeley Square. Her breakthrough role came on the BBC series Ballykissangel.
Other series roles include those on the Channel 4 drama North Square, Granada TV's Cold Feet, ITV's Trial & Retribution (playing the lead role of Detective Chief Inspector Roisin Connor) and the Irish RTÉ series The Clinic.
Among her other TV projects are telefilms such as The Shell Seekers with Vanessa Redgrave, Agatha Christie's Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side and The Hallmark Channel's Honeymoon for One, along with a guest-starring role on the ABC series Missing.
On the big screen, Smurfit has shown both her drama and comedy talents in such feature films as The Run of the Country, The Leading Man, Romance and Rejection, The Wedding Tackle, The Last Great Wilderness, Bulletproof Monk, Danny Boyle's The Beach and the Chris and Paul Weitz film About a Boy with Hugh Grant.
She can also be seen in the independent film An Unkindness of Ravens, with Amy Smart.
A patron of the children's charity World Vision Ireland, among other philanthropic causes, Smurfit currently resides in Los Angeles with her family.