 After graduating with her Bac, she attended a literary preparatory school () in Toulouse in 1995, before obtaining a literature degree at the University of Mirail.In 1996, she began to do internships in newspapers "Midi Libre" and "the Villefranchois, " then for the TV channels LCI and M6.In 2000, Marie-Sophie Lacarrau obtained her first CDD at the editing department of France 3 Quercy-Rouergue, then two years later at France 3 Midi-Pyrénées.