Liza Janette Wilk was born in Harford, Connecticut, to Jodie, a dance and theater teacher, and Greg, owner and President of Equipped to Sell. She moved to Dallas, Texas soon after where she spent most of her childhood, with a short period living in Ontario, Canada where she trained in dance. Liza has always had a love for acting and dance. She spent most of her childhood training in all styles of dance, and is classically trained in ballet attending many ballet schools and competitions. Her mother was her first theater teacher, starting the love and dream of acting at a young age. She received a scholarship for acting at the University of Oklahoma, but soon transferred and received her Bachelors in Theater and Dance from the University of Texas. Liza soon moved to Los Angeles for an internship at Millennium films, as the film production intern. While in LA she studied with Lesly Kahn for comedy acting, and studied all sides of production including stop animation. Her breakout role was a Co-Star in Christina Grimmie's Music Video, "Ballad of Jessica Blue."