An American actress, screenwriter and producer, born to an accountant mother and a health insurance father, and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas. She was raised Irish Catholic and attended the Immaculate Conception School through eighth grade. She has been performing in local children's plays from the age of five. She studied theater at Northwestern University and is also an alumnus of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company's School in Chicago. Some of her works are Saint Frances (2019), Henry Gamble's Birthday Party (2015) and Sirens (2014).