Taliesen was born in Melbourne, Australia, Taliesen Bennett Knehans. She grew up in Melbourne and Sydney until the age of 9, when she started traveling each year to America to visit her father. By the age of 14, she decided to stay in America until she finished high school. Taliesen graduated from Central High School in Tuscaloosa, Al in 1999 and then went back to Australia to study theater and film at the University of New South Wales, where she received her B.A. in 2003. Years later she moved back to America, this time New York City, to study acting at Brooklyn College, and in 2009 she received her Masters in Fine Arts for Acting. Show less «