Opened her own dance studio, Cheryl Burke Dance, in the spring of 2008.
She began her dancing career when she began training in ballet at the
age of 4 and at the age of 11 began ballroom dancing.
Her father was American and her mother is Filipino. A 23andMe DNA test taken by Cheryl stated that her ancestry is approximately half Ashkenazi Jewish (father's side) and half "Chinese & Southeast Asian" (mother's).