Father, Paul Platt, was the principal of an elementary school in Brooklyn. Mother, Queen Victoria Platt, sung background for Sam Cooke before becoming an actress herself. Her father is of Polish descent. Her mother is Bahamian.
"Living in New York is sensory overload. You're muscling your way down NY streets, you're hearing horns blaring, traffic noises and people shouting, you're inhaling pretzels up one nostril and urine up the other.... it was over-stimulation to me. It was hard to shut myself down enough to keep all that out." - On being born and raised in NY.
