Born in Hong Kong, she was adopted at 7 into a French Canadian family and raised in a small town in northern Ontario. She loved competing in sports, practising gymnastics, dancing, and singing and took part in summer school theatre and dance performances.She left home at 17 and after working a wide variety of jobs, returned to her love of acting.She booked her first professional role soon-after in a TV Movie by acclaimed writer and producer, Chris Haddock. Later that same year she booked a recurring role in his Gemini-award winning TV series, "Intelligence" and a few years later on his multiple Leo-award winning TV series, "The Romeo Section".