Elizabeth's career began on stage growing up in the rural Midwest. She attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. On leave from University, she traveled the United States, Western and Eastern Europe performing in a gypsy theater troupe. While performing in New York, she was encouraged to pursue an acting career in film and television. After being commissioned to adapt her personal memoir into a screenplay, she wrote and and starred in the short adaptation titled 'A Girl in Her Imagination'. She has completed writing her second feature and has begun writing a television series. She continues to act in television and film. She lives in Los Angeles.