Rachelle Lefevre

  Rachelle Marie Lefevre ( born February 1 1979) is a Canadian actor from Canada. She has appeared in the television series Big Wolf on Campus and had recurring roles in What About Brian, Boston Legal, and Swingtown. She played the role of the vampire Victoria in the first two films of the Twilight series. In 2011, she starred 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 an English teacher father and a psychologist mother. Her maternal grandparents are Jewish and her father comes originally from Northern Ireland and France. Her stepfather is a Rabbi. Lefevre was born in an unconfessional family and is Jewish. She then attended Dawson College and studied creative arts. She took theater classes for two summers at Walnut Hill School in Natick, Massachusetts, and began a degree in education as well as literature at McGill University.