Zaila is a born and raised native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana and is of Italian, Spanish, Irish and Welsh decent. She discovered a passion for acting at age 5 as an extra on a feature film set and began studying the craft at age 7, attending film and theater classes to add to her training. Now still early in her career she has been very successful doing student films and has landed lead and or supporting roles in each, frequently plays older characters because of her maturity.