Victoria Koblenko (Ukrainian: Вікторія Кобленко; Russian: Виктория Кобленко) (born 19 December 1980, in Vinnitsa, Soviet Union) is a Dutch actress, presenter and columnist of Ukrainian descent.

Biography

Victoria Koblenko was born and raised in Ukraine as an only child. It was not until 1992 when she was 12 that she and her parents moved to the Netherlands. Settling down in a faraway Western European country with an entirely different atmosphere, culture and language was a formative experience in her life and very much served to broaden her horizons. Koblenko adapted swiftly to life in her newly adopted country, learning to speak fluent Dutch. Attending a gymnasium (college preparatory school) in the Netherlands, she also mastered English, German and French, plus classical Latin and Greek, while maintaining her command of Russian and Ukrainian. She had the best grade for Latin and scored eight out of 10 for Dutch. At the age of 18, she began studying Political science at Leiden University.