Madison Nicole Ziegler, better known as Maddie Ziegler, is a dancer, actress and model from
the US.
She was born on September 30th 2002, in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
Daughter of Melissa Gisoni and Kurt Ziegler, her parents got divorced in 2011.
Maddie has a younger sister called Mackenzie, and two half brothers, Tyler and Ryan, from
a previous marriage of her dad.
Her family lives nowadays in Los Angeles, California.
When she was only 2, Maddie already knew dancing was her passion, and she started dancing soon
after.
First, in the Reign Dance Productions in Pittsburg and, only 3 years after this, she joined the
prestigious Abby Lee Dance Company, where she started winning dance titles.
In 2011, she got her first audiovisual opportunity.
She participated in the CBS program, Live to Dance, and even tho the show was canceled
before her episode was released, when she was 9, she entered the Lifetime reality show
Dance Moms.
This show shares the day to day of the young dancers and the dance company.
The public didnt need long to fall in love with this expressive artist.
In the show, she was accompanied by her mom and her sister Mackenzie, who decided to follow
her steps and become a dancer as well.
International fame came to her through the australian singer Sia.
In May 2014, her appearance on the video Chandelier turned her into a viral success.
Sia had seen her in Dance Moms and she was so impressed that she contacted her directly
through Twitter.
Her spectacular dance, along with her kind-of-legendary already plátinum wig and and a flesh tone
body suit turned her, with only 12 years old, into one of the most famous dancers of the
moment.
She went on a tour around the most famous programs on TV in the US, and she performed
spectacularly for the Annual Grammy Awards ceremony in 2015.
After Chandelier’s success, Sia decided to use this same formula for her next video,
the controversial Elastic Heart, where Maddie was accompanied by the actor Shia (sháia)
Labeouf (lebáf).
Despite all the cóntrovérsy, collaborations between Sia and Maddie Ziegler are still on,
and she appeared again in Big Girls Cry, Cheap Thrills, The Greatest and Rainbow.
These clips have more than 2 billion views on Youtube.
Sia’s alter ego has participated on more music videos, including “It’s Like Summer”
by Lux, “Cry” by Alexx Calise (calís), “Freaks like Me” by Tódrick Hall or “Its
a Girls Party”, by her sister.
Apart from dancing, Maddie is an emerging performer.
In 2012, she got her first role as Young Deb in Drop Dead Diva, and she was also an invited
actress in Austin & Ally and Pretty Little Liars.
She was on a Skechers commercial and she has posed for different brands and publications.
The Time’s magazine included her on its 30 most influential teens of 2015 list.
Even tho Maddie is totally focused on her dancing, she is homeschooled and she trains
for 40 hours a week, she likes doing the same kind of thing any girl her age likes.
She loves spending time with her friends, shopping, watching TV and using social networks.
Ziegler was the youngest person to ever reach 1 million followers on Twitter, and she has
more than 11 million fans on Instagram.
She also has a Youtube channel with more than 2 million subscribers.
In mid 2016, Maddie, her mother and her sister Mackenzie said goodbye to Dance Moms after
5 years to chase other opportunities.
In 2017, the dancer made her cinematographic debut in the movie The Book of Henry.
She was also the voice for one of the characters in the movie Ballerina.
She also became a judge in the show So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation.
She published her biography, The Maddie Diaries, which turned into a best seller in the New
York Times, as well as the first novel of her trilogy about Harper, a 12-year-old dancer.
She has her own clothing line, too.
Despite her young age, Maddie Ziegler has already proved she is a very talented artist.
We are more than sure that, whatever she decides to do with her future, she will definitely
succeed!