Jillian Leigh Murray was born in Reading, Pennsylvania. She has one younger sister named Meghan. She left Reading at 15 and moved to Tucson, Arizona, where she began her professional career with independent films. She completed high school in Tucson and immediately headed to Los Angeles to pursue her acting career. Her credits include roles in An American Carol (2008) alongside Kelsey Grammer and Dennis Hopper and Cougar Hunting (2011) with Lara Flynn Boyle. She has also starred in such horror films as The Graves (2009), erotic thrillers like Wild Things 4 (1994) and the action film Never Back Down 2: The Beatdown (2011) with Michael Jai White.