Corinne Niox Chateau was born in New York City of French and Polish parents. She attended Barnard College and the graduate film program at NYU and was a fellow at the American Film Institute. She studied acting with Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg and has appeared in feature films, on television, on and off Broadway, and has worked with renowned directors such as Elia Kazan and Arthur Penn. She has taught acting in the graduate film department at NYU, in the Actors Studio MFA program at the New School, and at Pace University. She is a lifetime member of the Actors Studio and the Ensemble Studio Theatre. She is the author of The Road To Cali, about the adoption of her son in the Republic of Georgia, and the play The Sun Shines East.