Nora Zehetner was born in El Paso, Texas, USA in February 5 1981 to John Carol Zehetner and wife Nancy Lynne Nelson. Her birth name is Nora Angela Zehetner but Angela was a name people rarely called her with. She attended elementary school in Richardson but she moved Dallas when she was fourteen. There, she studied in McKinney High School and took up a course in Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science for a year. After an ordinary school life, she made a big decision to pursue a career in acting and fortunately, she makes it to Hollywood. Nora Zehetner moved to California when she was eighteen years old and started appearing in a number of films and television shows.
The sexy Nora Zehetner had her onscreen debut in Christina Wayne's Tart, a melodrama relesed in 2001. She then made it to more and more films, starting from Rian Johnson’s Brick, a mystery flick. Nora played the role of the enigmatic yet hot and stunning character of Laura in the said movie.