Molly Kinsale Ratermann grew up in Livermore, California in the San Francisco Bay Area with her parents and three siblings. She began acting in films at age 14, garnering awards along the way. In 2014, she created her own production company, Little Hand Productions, to facilitate making her own films. Alongside her own productions, in 2018, she became Head of Development at Studio Soho Films. Her upcoming directorial feature debut will be 'The Cosmopolitan West', an expansion of the 2020 short film.