Elene Makharashvili was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. At age 9, she moved to France with her grandparents and returned to Georgia five years later, where she explored a modeling career to save money for higher education. In 2016, soon after she graduated from SEU University (Tbilisi) with a Bachelors in Media & Communications, she headed straight to New York to chase her dreams, She soon moved to Los Angeles, to pursue an acting career. She made her feature film debut in Now Is Everything opposite Anthony Hopkins, Madeleine Brewer, Camille Rowe and Juliette Labelle. She will next be seen on the big screen as a lead in Light Falls directed by,two-time Oscar nominee Phedon Papamichael. She is fluent in English, French, Russian and Georgian