Alexa Glaser was born September 18, 1990 in Cincinnati, Ohio to parents Eric Glaser and Nancy Thompson-Glaser. She started performing at the age of three as a puppeteer for the Clifton Branch of the Cincinnati Public Library. Then, at the age of six she began taking acting lessons after school from first through twelfth grade. She holds a certificate in acting from University of Cincinnati's College Conservatory of Music's Preparatory Department, is a graduate of the Level One Intensive from the Sanford Meisner Center (Los Angeles), and has a B.A. in theatre with an emphasis in acting from Butler University.