Annarie Boor was born in South Africa, before spending her teenage years in Zambia. Having passed her dance teaching exams at the age of 15, she opened a dance school in Lusaka, Zambia where she taught for a number of years before moving to the UK in her early twenties. She subsequently spent a number of years in the Cayman Islands before returning to London to further her career and that of her actress daughter, Juliette Boor. Her other daughter Danielle Boor is also an actress.