Brenda Fogarty was born in Tucson, Arizona. Her mother was a teacher. Fogarty first started acting in plays in both high school and college. At age fourteen Brenda got a job working as a coffee girl on the weekends at The Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Fogarty went on to become a showgirl at the Casino de Paris at The Dunes Hotel from 1969 to 1970. Brenda subsequently was a principal dancer in a Las Vegas revue in Chicago, Illinois and was a showgirl again in the largest show in the world at the time in Beirut, Lebanon. While in Beirut for eighteen months Fogarty did a bunch of commercials for Kuwait and the Middle East. Brenda then went to Paris, France for rehearsals and joined Madame Bluebell's private tour in Germany, Spain, Portugal, and Geneva as one of three principal dancers for two years. Fogarty eventually returned to America and settled in Los Angeles, California, where she took acting classes before embarking on an acting career in a handful of low-budget exploitation movies that were made and released throughout the mid to late 1970's. Moreover, Brenda also worked as a studio driver for fourteen years as well as worked as a realtor from 2001 to 2013. Fogarty began writing and performing her own intimate monologues on life, love, passion, and relationships in January, 1994.