David Lee Perez was born in El Paso, TX. His father, Luis Perez, is a retired correctional officer and his mother, Lucy Perez, is a substitute teacher. He has one older sibling, Luis Anthony Perez Jr. He was raised in Killeen, TX and started his interest in acting at Liberty Hill Middle School. He pursued it well into high school at Harker Heights High School in Harker Heights, TX.