Biography
Victor Hermínio Lopez was born in Tepatitlan, Jalisco, Mexico, raised in Tijuana, B.C. and Venice, California, and lived in London and Lincoln, England. His father Hermínio was a professional photographer who was taught the business by his uncle, Samuel, while his mother Victoria was happily busy devoting her life to raising eight children, Victor being the youngest.
While living in Venice, a film production, 'Mother, Jugs & Speed' (Bill Cosby, Raquel Welch & Harvey Keitel) set-up shop in front of his family's home for a couple of months, and it is then that the acting bug came to town. That, and watching Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon.
Victor has performed on stage in England, Off-Broadway and Los Angeles, and was a member of the Long Beach Shakespeare Company where he performed such roles as Don John in Much Ado About Nothing, Sebastian in Twelfth Night, Friar Laurence in Romeo & Juliet, and the title role in Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus.
A Hollywood best-kept secret, Victor has mostly worked in independent foreign films such as 'Shadow Boxing 2; Revenge', the no. 1 Russian/Eastern European action-boxing-mafia blockbuster produced by Central Partnership which premiered at the Moscow International Film Festival, Greece's 'Without Borders', winner of the Orpheus Audience Award at the 2011 L.A. Greek Film Festival, a lead role in Mexico's suspense-thriller 'Soul Walker' (Guardian De Las Animas), and a principal role in 'Double Down'.
Victor is the creator of the up-coming Netflix series, 'Growin' Up VENICE', which is currently in development.
