He grew up in Acton, Massachusetts, and attended The Walnut Hill School, a boarding/day high school focused on programs in the performing, visual, and creative arts and located in Natick, Massachusetts.
Hemmens attended Mount View High School in Thorndike, Maine, before receiving a scholarship to attend the performing arts high school Walnut Hill School for the Arts near Boston for her final two years of high school.
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Whitmere appeared in her first play before she was ten, and spent her high school years training at Walnut Hill School, a performing arts boarding school in Natick, Massachusetts.
She grew up in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, where she lived until leaving to attend Walnut Hill School for the Performing Arts in Natick, Massachusetts.