Sophia was born in Montpellier, France and grew up from the age of 4 in Nabeul, Tunisia. From her mothers side she is French and from her fathers side she is Tunisian. She studied at the French high school in La Marsa/Tunisia and obtained her baccalaureate in literature and language. She then studied in France at the University of Social Sciences in Montpellier, before enrolling at the Fine Arts School in Tunis where she studied arts and crafts. She began her postgraduate studies at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Audiovisuel in Toulouse before obtaining her doctorate at the Tunis Institute of Fine Arts with honours and a recommendation for publication of her thesis. In the meantime, Sophia joined the world of cinema as an assistant director. She taught also as a master assistant at the Institut Supérieur des Arts Multimédia de la Manouba, Tunisia.