Susan Elle was born and raised in Los Angeles and grew up with a passion for art, playing piano and learning dance from a very young age. She attended the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio earning a Bachelor of Music degree in classical piano. Suffering from severe tendinitis, she discontinued her piano studies after college in order to recover and decided to compete in beauty pageants that led to her being crowned Miss Asia USA in 2013. This encouraged her to start modeling and in 2015 she turned her attention to commercials and focusing on an acting career, starring in her first film in 2016.