Victoria Wisdom
- Producer
- Manager
- Talent Agent
Victoria Wisdom, known for The Usual Suspects and Criminal Minds, recently turned producer/manager. Victoria was previously a partner at literary agency Becsey Wisdom Kalajian as well as a literary agent at International Creative Management/ICM. Victoria is currently producing a documentary on adult bullying and an independent feature set in New York City. As producer, Victoria has set up the thriller Labyrinths at Summit Entertainment, the comedy Amateurs with Paramount Pictures and the fantasy Taravella starring Amy Adams. As an agent, Victoria represented the writers and directors of Oscar winning films The Usual Suspects, The Red Violin, British Oscar winner Love and Death on Long Island and Best Picture Oscar nominee An Education. Becsey Wisdom clients included Oscar winners Crash, Million Dollar Baby and The Fugitive. Additionally, Victoria sold the fifteen season hit CBS drama series Criminal Minds. Victoria also represented award winning director Lone Scherfig (An Education), Oscar nominees Deepa Mehta (Fire, Water) Doug McGrath (Bullets Over Broadway), Maria Luisa Bemberg (Camila), winners Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects), Ernest Thompson (On Golden Pond), Australian Oscar winner John Duigan (Year My Voice Broke), directors Bryan Singer (X-Men), Alan Moyle (Pump Up the Volume) and Leslie Megahey (The Advocate) as well as musician/screenwriter Frank Zappa. Victoria's international client list ranged from Hong Kong director Clarence Fok (The Naked Killer), Japanese filmmaker Hiroyuki Nakano (Samurai Fiction) and Cannes winner Norwegian director Pal Sletaune (Junk Mail). Additionally, Victoria represented the screenwriters of such mainstream hits as Hellboy, G. I. Jane, and Alien VS. Predator along with the children's classic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Before moving from New York to Los Angeles, Victoria worked in the New York theatre discovering and representing playwrights and Tony Award nominees David Ives (Venus in Fur), and Douglas McGrath (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical). Prior to ICM and BWK, Victoria ran the East Coast Literary Dept. of APA and began her career as a story analyst for Simon & Schuster, Warner Bros. Films, Columbia Pictures and United Artists. Victoria currently also teaches Advanced Screenwriting at UCLA (University of California Los Angeles).