Shereen Elcherif was born in Los Angeles, California and grew up in different Middle Eastern countries, including: Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Kuwait. Shereen attended The American University in Cairo and earned a Bachelors Degree in psychology. She later pursued a doctorate degree in Educational Leadership (2013), in the United States. While studying for her doctorate, Shereen realized that her passion for film has resurfaced and began by taking acting classes in Hollywood. She landed a role 2012, in a short film called Billie Speare shortly after. In 2014, she decided to begin her own project, Haunting Dreams. In 2015, Shereen, along with her partner, began a production company (Handmade Movies LLC), and produced their first feature film, Triangles.