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English was born in Toronto, Ontario and graduated from McGill University mechanical engineering. She worked for a year at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young in Montreal as a consultant before becoming a host/producer of TVOKids, TVOntario's after school programming. English also appeared in number of original TVO Kids series BOD TV, as Artbot in Artbot, Nifty Girl in Super Citizens, the mayor in The Reading Rangers, and was the in-house choreographer for music videos. Best known was her 40 episodes of the series Jackie's School of Dance which was nominated for two A.C.T. Awards. As an actress she works on screen and on stage. In 2011, English wrote and directed her first film, a short called NIMBY which won first prize at the Toronto Urban Film Festival where judge Atom Egoyan called it "extraordinary." In 2017/2018 English's first feature film Becoming Burlesque premiered at Whistler Film Festival, was the opening film at the Canadian Film Festival, and won Best Film at the Tryon Film Festival before its North American Theatrical release. English was declared a Canadian Director To Watch by Broadway World.