Victoria Alonso

Victoria Alonso was born on 22 December 1965^[1] in La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.^[2]

Alonso moved to Seattle at the age of 19 to pursue an acting career. She relocated again to Los Angeles, where she began working in the visual effects industry,^[2] including at Digital Domain as a visual effects producer for four years,^[3][4] working on films such as Big Fish (2003), which was nominated for Best Special Visual Effects at the 57th British Academy Film Awards.^[2]

Alonso joined Marvel Studios in 2005 as executive vice president of visual effects and post-production,^[3] working as a co-producer on Marvel Cinematic Universe films Iron Man (2008), Iron Man 2 (2010), Thor (2010), and Captain America: The First Avenger (2011),^[5] and serving as executive producer on every Marvel Studios production since The Avengers (2012),^[2] including television shows.^[6] She was promoted to executive vice president of production in 2015.^[7][8] In 2021, Alonso was promoted to president of physical and post-production, visual effects, and animation at Marvel Studios.^[9]

In 2016, Alonso became the first woman to win the Advanced Imaging Society's Harold Lloyd Award for her achievements in visual effects.^[2][10][11] In January 2020, she was awarded the Filmmaker Award by the Motion Picture Sound Editors at the 67th Golden Reel Awards.^[3] In October 2021, it was announced that Alonso would be the top honoree at Outfest's Visionary Award at the November ceremony at LA's Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.^[12]

In December 2022, she was named on The Hollywood Reporter's "Women in Entertainment Power 100".^[13]

In 2023, Alonso was fired from her role at Marvel Studios for breach of contract after violating her noncompete clause by serving as a producer on the Amazon Studios film Argentina, 1985,^[14][15], having failed to seek permission to work on the film, and continuing to promote it after being ordered by Disney to cease her involvement with the project.^[14]

At the time of her firing, criticism from VFX workers were noted,^[15] who had raised complaints of Marvel's "demanding post-production schedules". Alonso was described by some^[who?] as a "kingmaker",^[15][16] with Chris Lee at Vulture reporting that Alonso was "singularly responsible for Marvel's toxic work environment."^[17][16] However, Alonso was also described as the "epitome of professional" and supportive on set, with Joanna Robinson of The Ringer describing the reports as a "gross mischaracterization" and the opposite of Alonso's work.^[15][18] Alonso said that the real reason for her firing was her outspoken opposition to LGBTQ+ erasure at the company.^[19] Disney and Alonso reached a multi-million dollar compensation settlement in April.^[20]

Alonso is openly gay and is married to Australian actress Imelda Corcoran. The couple has one adopted daughter.^[2]