Had her first professional acting experience at the age of 2 in the film Let It Ride starring her uncle Richard Dreyfuss
Pursued dance as a career path beginning when she was 6, and for 10 years rehearsed and performed with various companies, including the American Ballet Theatre in New York and the School of Rock in Philadelphia, until she was sidelined by an ankle injury
Trained with Gregory Berger-Sobeck, a graduate of Yale School of Drama in Acting, at the Berg Studios in Los Angeles
In a 2015 Status Magazine interview, said her second job choice would be working with children as a preschool teacher, which she did for two years before her acting career took off