Sarah Kate Allsup was born August 21, 1989 in Wichita Falls, Texas. She was very active in high school theatre and later attended Midwestern State University with a theatre scholarship. During her freshman year of college she was part of a comedy improv troupe. Her second year of college she decided to make the jump from stage to film and was cast in various independent films. She managed to balance her budding acting career during college and graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Communications.