Victoire Laly was born in Benin in 1991. At the age of eight, she and her family moved to Germany, where she discovered her passion for acting and theater. After graduating from high school, she appeared in the production Macbeth at the Hans-Otto Theater Potsdam and in various short films. In 2014 she had her first main TV role in the ARD series Ein Fall von Liebe directed by Sascha Thiel, in 2015 she starred in Tatort Dortmund Kollaps directed by Dror Zahavi. In 2016 she shot her first International feature film The Misandrists by Bruce LaBruce, which premiered at the Berlinale. In 2017 followed the next feature film Phantomschmerz by Andreas Ohlenberg and currently she is acting in the Ballhaus production Call me Queen, a two-woman play by Thandi Sebe.