Gae Anderson grew up on her parents' Farm at Matoong, near Wagga Wagga, New South Wales. In 1993 she graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art and spent the next twenty years performing in theatre, television and on radio.
In 1999 Anderson graduated with a PhD in Arts from the University of Sydney. She has taught English as a Second Language and lectured at the Centre for Internationl Communications at Macquarie University.
