Heather Tom - Definition and Overview

Heather Tom, in a still from One Life to Live.

Heather Tom (born November 4, 1975) is an American soap opera actress. She was born in Hinsdale, Illinois.

She is well known to American daytime drama fans for her role as Victoria Newman on The Young and the Restless on CBS-TV. She played the role from 1991 until December 2003, when she left for a new role as Kelly Cramer Buchanan on ABC's soap One Life to Live. She has also played Kelly on another soap opera, All My Children.

She won two Daytime Emmy awards in 1993 and 1997 for "Outstanding Younger Lead Actress" along with nominations in 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 2000. Heather Tom holds the record for the most Emmy Award nominations for actresses under the age of thirty.

Her siblings are also actors: her brother David played Billy Abbott on The Young and the Restless, and currently co-stars with her on One Life to Live as her brother (ironically). Her sister, Nicholle, played Maggie Sheffield on the sitcom The Nanny.