Rachelle Lefevre

  Rachelle Marie Lefevre ( born on February 1, 1979) is a Canadian actress from Canada. She starred on the television show Big Wolf on Campus, and also played recurring parts on What About Brian, Boston Legal, Swingtown, and Swingtown. In the Twilight films, she played the role as Victoria the vampire. In 2011, she was a star in the ABC medical drama Off the Map, followed by the CBS series A Gifted Man (2011-2012) and Under the Dome (2013-2015).Lefevre was born in Montreal, Quebec, where she was raised by her English teacher father and a psychologist mom. Her grandparents were Jewish and her father hails from Northern Ireland and France. Her stepfather is a Rabbi. Lefevre was raised in a non-denominational household, and identifies as Jewish.She is the mother of three siblings, and is fluent in both English as well as French although she was raised mostly in English.Lefevre went to Centennial Academy, a private high school. Later, she studied creative arts at Dawson College. After two summers of theatre at Walnut Hill School, Natick, Massachusetts, Lefevre began her McGill University education and literature degree.