Mandy Takhar was born and raised in the city of Wolverhampton in the UK. She belongs to a Sikh Jatt family and traces her roots to Maliana, a small village near Phagwara in Punjab. While growing up Mandy was quite a tom boy. During high school she was the only female in boy's rugby team, football team, and she also trained in Martial Arts. She then moved to London from her family home when she was 17, to study drama at the Kingston University and then left the UK in 2009 to work as an actor in the Punjabi film industry.