Victoria Tennant (born 30 September 1950) is an English/American film and television actress.
Tennant was born in London. Her mother, Irina Baronova, was a white Russian prima ballerina who appeared with the Ballet Russes de Monte Carlo. Her father, Cecil Tennant, was an English producer and talent agent who ran MCA's talent office and whose clients included Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, John Gielgud and Michael Redgrave. Her maternal grandfather, Misha Baronov, was a senior officer in the Russian navy, and her maternal grandmother, Lydia Vishniakov, was a general's daughter and came from a middle class family from St Petersburg. Laurence Olivier was Tennant's Godfather. She attended a Catholic school and the Central School of Speech and Drama.
Tennant was formerly married to the American actor and comedian Steve Martin, and starred opposite him in All of Me and L.A. Story. She left him for Australian actor Andrew Clarke.
