Born in Washington DC and raised in the rural Maryland suburb of Beltsville, Cloie is a country girl with a city soul. Although she was originally trained and groomed to be a ballet dancer, she began acting as a teenager, landing a recurring role on ABC's "All My Children" while still in high school.

As a student at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, she had the great fortune to train with some of the best actors in the industry via the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School and the Collaborative Arts Project. She then traveled to Cuba, where she lived and studied both dance and music with masters of the Latin stage.