Maybe you should try directing.' And I was like, 'That's not easier.'' Career She revealed in a 2020 interview that she was told by her Carnegie Mellon teachers not to pursue acting: 'They were like, 'I don't know if you're cut out for this. Pedretti attended Pennsbury High School in Fairless Hills, where she expressed an interest in musical theatre, and the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama in Pittsburgh, where she earned a BFA in acting in 2017. She was diagnosed with ADHD when she was six years old. She has said that she grew up in an emotionally abusive household, but said of her parents that she 'love them very much and they tried their best'. Three of her father's four grandparents were Italian, while her maternal grandmother was Ashkenazi Jewish.
Pedretti was born in Philadelphia on March 23, 1995.