Lauren Tengler was born in Toronto, Ontario, and took her first recreational dance class at the age of four. A year later, joining Swansea School of Dance, where she spent the next 12 years studying ballet, tap, jazz, and modern dance, and completed an RAD ballet examination. She currently holds her Early Childhood Diploma, completed at George Brown College, and is working towards her Early Childhood Studies Degree at Guelph-Humber University.

After taking a year off from school to spend in Italy as an Au Pair, she is happy to be back at SSOD.