Tyger Sharee was born September 21, 1989 to Kelly Nettell (Spohn) and Robert Nettell. She grew up in Grand Blanc, Michigan and graduated from Davison High School. After many attempts to get into the modeling and acting business she decided to attend Mott Community College and study film and media arts. She had done many plays as a child, but it wasn't until college she became serious about acting and decided to pursue acting and made her debut in The Fourth Wall (2015).