Victoria Price
| Victoria Price | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born |
Mary Victoria Price April 27, 1962 Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Designer |
| Parent(s) |
Vincent Price, Mary Grant Price |
| Relatives | Vincent Barrett Price (brother) |
Mary Victoria Price (born April 27, 1962) is an interior designer, public speaker, and teacher. She helped found the Philos School in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and currently spends much of her time traveling and speaking about the life of her father, Vincent Price.
Career
Victoria Price has a bachelor's degree in art history and theater from Williams College and completed the doctoral program in American Studies at the University of New Mexico. She also has taught at the University of New Mexico, New Mexico Highlands University, and the Philos School, an alternative arts-and-humanities school in Santa Fe that she helped to found.[1]
She is an interior designer, who has appeared on HGTV and in many design publications.[2] She is a public speaker, giving talks internationally on the life of her father, on interior design, and on other topics.,[3][4][5] and is on the board of the Vincent Price Art Museum in California.[6]
She also appeared in the movie Edward Scissorhands, her father's last film, where she played a newscaster.[7]
Selected publications
In 1999, Victoria Price wrote Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography,[8] and released an updated version in 2014.[9]
She has also written the preface for a 50th anniversary edition of A Treasury of Great Recipes,[10] a cookbook written by Vincent Price and his wife Mary.[11]
Personal life
Victoria Price was born April 27, 1962, at St John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California, to actor Vincent Price and his second wife, Mary Grant Price. She has one older sibling, Vincent Barrett Price, born in 1940 to Vincent Price’s first wife Edith Barrett.[12]
She came out as a lesbian in the 1980s and currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with her partner. She is interested in Native American and African art, and horseback riding.[13] She has her own blog, Daily Practice of Joy.[14]
Even though Victoria is the daughter of a horror icon, she is not a fan of horror films, but she is a fan of horror fans.[15][16] She often attends and speaks at horror conventions.[17]
References
- ↑ Williams, Candy. "Price's daughter marks 50th anniversary of horror master's cookbook". TribLive.
- ↑ Matusik, Angela. "Najavo's Dream Weavers". Departures. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
- ↑ "Museum News". Poe Museum. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
- ↑ Price, Victoria. "Tell me, what do you have in your house?". TEDx. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
- ↑ "Vincentennial:The Legacy of Vincent Price". Missouri Humanities Council. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
- ↑ "Vincent Price Art Museum Foundation Board and Staff". Vincent Price Art Museum. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
- ↑ "Edward Scissorhands (1990)". The New York Times. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
- ↑ Price, Victoria (1999). Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0312242735.
- ↑ Price, Victoria (2014). Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography. Open Road Distribution. ISBN 1497649447.
- ↑ Price, Mary; Price, Vincent (2015). A Treasury of Great Recipes: 50th anniversary edition. Dover Publications, Incorporated. ISBN 1606600729.
- ↑ Stokes, Stephanie (October 31, 2014). "'Master of Menace' A Lover Of Cuisine". WABE. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
- ↑ Price, Victoria (2014). Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography. Open Road Distribution. pp. 162, 362, 367. ISBN 1497649447.
- ↑ Foege, Alec. "The Tell-Tale Heart". People. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
- ↑ "Daily Practice of Joy". dailypracticeofjoy.com. Retrieved June 23, 2015.
- ↑ Price, Victoria (December 4, 2013). "Victoria Price: To Horror Fans Everywhere!". Vincent Price official website. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
- ↑ Rodgers, Vernor (October 17, 2013). "Vincent Price's extraordinary life as recalled by his daughter Victoria". Inside Social. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
- ↑ Price, Victoria (May 31, 2015). "A Love Letter: To all the Vincent Price fans I have met at horror conventions". Daily Practice of Joy. Retrieved June 17, 2015.