Christie Claude was born in Hollywood, Florida. She graduated summa cum laude in Creative Writing and Film Studies from Loyola University New Orleans. After being scouted for a GAP campaign in New Orleans, she relocated to Los Angeles to pursue a career in modeling. She has been a working and training actor in LA since 2017 and continues to write original material, drawing inspiration from her wildly impractical experiences as a folk singer busking for gas money through the American South, a poboy shop waitress, financial transcriptionist, printmaker's apprentice, and assistant teacher at a French immersion school.