Career 1980s īerkley was a teenage model for Elite before pursuing an acting career. She performed in several ballets, including Swan Lake, and in 1983 she appeared in some musicals. When she became interested in pursuing dance professionally, she traveled to New York City to train with dancers and choreographers. She auditioned for the lead role in the film Annie. įrom a young age, she danced and practiced in a room her parents set up for her in the basement. She graduated in 1990 from North Farmington High School in Farmington Hills after attending the Cranbrook Kingswood School, a private school in Bloomfield Hills. She also has a mole on her forehead, which she covers with makeup, saying it led to name-calling while growing up. She was born with partial heterochromia, a condition of differently colored irises her right eye is half green and half brown and her left eye is all green. She was raised in a Conservative Jewish household and had a bat mitzvah. She is the daughter of Jere, a gift-basket business owner and Fred Berkley, a lawyer. Berkley was born and raised in Farmington Hills located in a Detroit northern suburb community in affluent Oakland County, Michigan.
