Biographie
Valorie began acting at the age of 3 after dramatically throwing herself down a staircase. When her mother found she was unharmed, she enrolled Valorie in a creative dramatics class, where she has been acting ever since. She studied at The Goodman School of Drama before moving to New York, where she spent the next 20 years. Some of her favorite New York credits include The Crucible at The Roundabout Theatre, The Country Boy at Irish Rep, The Sweepers at Urban Stages, and The Queen Bee's Last Stand, also at Urban Stages. Regionally, Valorie has performed at the NJ Shakespeare Festival, Delaware Theatre Company, The Wilma Theatre, Weston Playhouse, Missouri Rep, and The Lab Theatre in Poland. She was invited to join the last international company to work at The Lab Theatre. Valorie has collaborated with a remarkable range of acting professionals, including John Guare, Joseph Chaiken, Toni Kotite, Neel Keller, Terry Schreiber, and Zbigniew Cynkutis.
Her film credits include A Better Life directed by Chris Weitz; An American Christmas Carol with Beverly D'Angelo; Divorce Invitation, where she plays Richard Kind's cougar wife; The Hannah Montana Movie; Smell of Success starring Billy Bob Thornton and Tea Leoni; Pennance starring Michael Rooker; Resident Evil: Extinction; Parasomnia directed by William Malone and starring Crispin Glover; Henry Fool directed by Hal Hartley; Wrestling with Alligators starring Adrienne Shelley and Joely Richardson; Gameday starring Richard Lewis; and the recent Hallmark Christmas movie Help for the Holidays with Summer Glau.
On television, Valorie has appeared in How I Met Your Mother, Glee, American Horror Story, Workaholics, True Blood, 90210, ER, Desperate Housewives, Zeke and Luther, Good Luck Charlie, I'm In the Band, a recurring role on Kickin It, Huge, The Job, Missing Persons, and Comedy Central's American Body Shop.
Valorie runs her own company, Actor's Fast Track, and lives in New Jersey with her husband, Gill Boyd, and their dog, Gracie.
