Keri Caye was born in Upland, California and grew up in Pomona, Los Angeles, and Anaheim, California. She is of Irish and French-Jewish ancestry. Caye made her acting debut in "The American Sportsman" fishing off San Diego's Guadalupe Islands (1969) and later launched her career in such films as "Surrender" (1987) "Baby Girl Scott," "Snoops" (1989) "The Slap Maxwell Story," (1987), "Frank's Place" (1987-88).