If you were on X, known as Twitter at the time, between 2015 and 2020, you are familiar with Eva Victor.
The comedian and writer went viral with hilarious short video sketches like “me explaining to my boyfriend why we’re going to straight pride” and “the girl from the movie who doesn’t believe in love.” They also authored some classic Reductress headlines like “Confident Woman, But How” and “Woman Who Finds ‘They’ Pronouns Confusing Has No Problem Calling Her Car ‘She.‘”
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Over the last few years, Eva leaned into acting in other peoples’ projects. But now, her film “Sorry, Baby,” which she wrote, directed and starred in, is hitting theaters and we have a feeling that once again, everyone is going to be talking about this Jewish creative.
Here are 18 things to know about Eva Victor.
1. Eva was born on February 11, 1994 in Paris.
2. She’s an Aquarius!
3. They identify as nonbinary and use they/she pronouns.
“Nonbinary for me has always been the space in-between. And that’s the thing that people are really uncomfortable with. The idea of, ‘I can’t totally figure you out,'” Eva told Vogue in May 2025. “But it’s a huge gift to give to yourself to think you could be more than one thing, that you could be limitless.”
4. They grew up in the Bay Area and attended an “intensely disciplined” French-speaking school. “I think I had this fantasy of a suburban life where, like, I drove a car and had Uggs and boyfriends and stuff,” Eva said of the experience.
5. Eva performed at Obama’s inauguration! They got their start in performing arts in high school with a choral group that sang at the inauguration. She was also in a production of “Spring Awakening” during their senior year.
“It’s genuinely the most proud I’ve ever been,” Eva told Rolling Stone. “When we did that, I was like, ‘OK, I think this is what I want to do with my life.’”
6. Eva attended Northwestern University, where she studied playwriting and acting. She also discovered comedy there. Despite their best efforts to get be in serious plays like those of Chekhov and Euripides, no one would cast her.
“I kept trying to do serious monologues and everyone would laugh,” they said.
7. After college, they moved to New York and started working at Reductress, where they would host the publication’s comedy show “Haha Wow!”
8. When the pandemic started, however, they decided to pivot away from stand-up.
“Performing would cause me a lot of anxiety,” she explained. “I really didn’t want to talk about my private life onstage. The best stand-up people are willing to be completely transparent in certain ways. And then when the pandemic happened, it was like, what I’m experiencing is actually relief.”
9. Eva made a hilarious video series for Comedy Central called “Eva vs Anxiety.” Check out their video about trying to open a seltzer during a meeting.
10. After leaving Reductress, Eva worked at a bridal shop and made videos wearing the dresses… until they got caught.
“They found out about my videos and said it was the most disappointing thing anyone had ever done who worked there,” Eva revealed in an interview. “All my childhood stuff of, like, ‘you failed’ came up. I felt so ashamed and so embarrassed. I almost wrote them a letter. And then I was like, that’s insane… I think they are still hugely upset with me, and I legit am afraid of them.”
11. They starred in “Billions” as Rian, a hedge fund trader, and as Jenna “The Rebounds” Brookes in Jewish love letter to NYC “Dating & New York.”
12. Eva has spoken publicly about being a survivor of sexual assault, which has informed her world view and her art, including “Sorry, Baby.” (More on that in a second…)
“That experience has informed who I am and what I care about. I can speak to it in a nuanced way, while there are obviously topics that I won’t understand firsthand,” Eva told Vulture in 2018. “Talking about my assault is so personal and emotionally draining, but other women’s experiences and support got me through my darkest times.”
13. While on hiatus from filming “Billions,” Eva sublet her cousin’s house in Maine during the winter to write the screenplay that would become “Sorry, Baby.”
Eva said of the writing experience, “The script was in my head for long enough that by the time I was writing it it actually felt like it was trying to burst through.”
14. In “Sorry, Baby” Eva plays an English literature professor named Agnes who is recovering from a sexual assault that occurred when she was in grad school. Eva says the story is based upon her own experience, however, she’s understandably reticent to talk about how true the movie is to her life.
“I think part of the point of making a film is that you say everything you want to say in the film,” Eva has said. “People ask me questions, and it’s like, I promise whatever you want to know, the answer I want to give you is in the film.”
15. There’s a kitten in “Sorry, Baby,” played by two adorable kittens named Evan and Bebe, and Eva had an unusual experience bonding with them. “We had a cat wrangler, and he put chicken goop on my face to make the cat want to look at me and touch me,” she told the Hollywood Reporter.
16. Eva has champions in Academy Award-winning filmmaker Barry Jenkins, who produced “Sorry, Baby,” and queer Jewish director Jane Schoenbrun. Jane let Eva shadow them while making “I Saw the TV Glow.”
17. Eva once submitted a packet to “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” Now, she can say that she was a guest on the show!
18. You have to check out Eva’s four favorite movies with Letterboxd. One of them will absolutely surprise you:
