Marjean Holden was raised in Vail, Colorado, where she graduated from Battle Mountain High School (Class of 1983). She became
interested in acting at the age of nine. After performing in nearly every school play or musical, she went on to study Television Producing
and Directing, first at Northern Arizona University and finally at Arizona State University. Holden's mother is of German, Dutch and Italian descent and her father is mixed African American and Native American. Holden has a brother, Kevin (born 1962) and a sister, Felisa (born 1961).