Victoria Fan

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Victoria Fan is a character in The CW's 2019 television series Nancy Drew. She is George Fan's mother and a clairvoyant. She is portrayed by Liza Lapira.

Appearance[]

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Character[]

Victoria is an alcoholic. She has four daughters all from different men, and none of the fathers appear to still be in the picture. Her relationship with her daughter George is strained.

History[]

Victoria was born with the ability to see and commune with spirits of those who have died. She was taught the ancient ways of her culture by her Aunts who lived in China. She often saw vivid and and disturbing images of evil spirits, which led her to seek reprieve in the only place she knew - alcohol. She drifted from town to town until she settled in Horseshoe Bay, Maine and had four daughters George, Jessie and Ted, Charlie. Her oldest George Fan, being the most skeptical of the paranormal world that her mother was immersed in. Victoria used to place a salt circle around George's high chair to guard her from malevolent spirits. Her youngest daughter Ted was the most interested in the paranormal world and, while still protected by Victoria, was taught more about the supernatural. Victoria's alcoholism often drove her to be erratic, unpredictable, and undependable. She drifted from one man to another, doing whatever she could to drown out the darkness of the supernatural world.

Plot summary[]

When Bess is attacked, apparently by a ghost, George calls in her mother Victoria to assist. Victoria's assessment is that the ghost of Tiffany Hudson is confused, and she gives them advice on how to put Tiffany's ghost to rest.^[2] When Tiffany's ghost later possesses George, Victoria helps expel the spirit.^[3]

Victoria abruptly returns to the Drew Crew to warn them that the twelve Roman coins they stole from an auction serves as a beacon for inhuman and evil spirits. They are now roaming the streets of Horshoe Bay and plaguing Victoria's life. She warns them to destroy the coins or get rid of them, strongly disagreeing with Nancy's idea to use the coins to commune with Dead Lucy. Victoria reluctantly agrees to help George and her friends, advising her on how to perform the seance. Her help proves useful even though she becomes too drunk to help them.^[4] When Ted is kidnapped, George angrily tells the Drew Crew that Victoria is on a drinking bender with a harbormaster. She doesn't return in time to help George and her friends save Ted.^[5]

In The Warning of the Frozen Heart, It's mention she's in China reconnecting with her heritage which is being funded by her father.

Trivia[]

In the other adaptations, George's mother's name is Louise.
- In the other adaptations of Nancy Drew she is not shown and wasn't mentioned to be an alcoholic to drown out her psychic powers.