Anderson was born in Brooklyn, New York, where she also attended Erasmus Hall High School.

[1] Anderson later attended Holy Cross School and there made her first public performances as a Grecian dancer at charity functions.

[2] Anderson had been seen in many productions since the day she first made her bow on the silver screen for Vitagraph Studios.

A popular player, she probably did her best work in Irvin Willat's feature production, The False Faces[3] (1919), for release through Ince-Paramount.

She was four feet and eleven inches in height and weighed one hundred and five pounds, and had golden hair and blue eyes.