Actress Born and raised in Dallas, Texas where she graduated Lake Highlands High School, Amy Acker is the oldest of four children; she has two sisters and one brother.
Her mother, Bella Spektor, was a music professor in a Russian college of music and now teaches at a public elementary school in New York.
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Her father is Ecuadorian and her mother, who is American-born, has English, Scots-Irish, and German.