Charlie Lynn Spradling was born and raised in Forth Worth, Texas. Spradling began her show business career acting in plays in and around her home town for nine years after joining a local children's theater group. Charlie eventually left Texas and moved to Hollywood, Los Angeles, California in the mid-1980's. In the wake of getting her SAG card in 1987, Spradling embarked on an acting career in both films and TV shows alike that lasted for about fifteen years. Charlie had co-starring roles in several low-budget horror movies that were made and released by Charles Band's Full Moon Entertainment (Charlie was also a spokes model for Full Moon in the early 1990's). Moreover, Spradling had a rare lead role as troubled stripper Nina in To Sleep with a Vampire (1992). Charlie went into the publishing field after calling it quits as an actress: She helped design and launch the luxury direct mail publication The Arroyo Monthly as well as was a senior executive at Pasadena Magazine. In addition, Spradling also co-founded the salad company Stacked Sally, LLC.