Carmen Dollard was born on the west coast of Canada on March 18, 1993. She spent the majority of her childhood growing up on Vancouver Island B.C., in the small beach town of Parksville. After high school, Carmen traveled for two years before she settled down in Vancouver In 2014. In that same year, Carmen also took her first steps into starting her career as an actress. Since then, she has booked two lead roles in local independents, as well as her first film credit, on the film Fifty Shades Darker (2017), as Christian Grey's birth mother.