Jaime Ray looks like Kelly Preston and Anna Gunn. Newman was born in Farmington Hills, Michigan, to Marsha Jo and Raphael Newman. She has one sister named Beth Nicole, who is now a global public relations director at J Brand.
Newman started performing at the age of eleven in the play A Rosen by Any Other Name. During this time, she worked around Detroit, acting in many of the regional theaters. Newman received her primary education at the Jewish Hillel Day School of Metropolitan Detroit, where she played Ado Annie Carnes in a play of Oklahoma!.
Newman then attended the private Cranbrook Kingswood School in Bloomfield Hills. Newman spent her summers at the Interlochen Center for the Arts, where she won a Corson Award for Outstanding Achievement in Acting. She also won the first-place position in the Michigan Interscholastic Forensic Association, a respected statewide dramatic competition, for three years in a row.