Maddie Ziegler Net Worth, Age, Family & Biography

About Maddie Ziegler

Madison Nicole Ziegler is actress and dancer from the United States. She starred in Lifetime’s reality show Dance Moms from 2011 (at the age of 8) until 2016, and in a series of Sia music videos, beginning with “Chandelier” and “Elastic Heart,” which have had over 6 billion views on YouTube.

Maddie Ziegler Family

Ziegler was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Melissa Ziegler-Gisoni and Kurt Ziegler. She has Polish, German, and Italian ancestors. When she was six years old, her parents split, and her mother married Greg Gisoni in 2013. Ziegler began ballet training at the age of two and joined the Abby Lee Dance Company at the age of four, where she studied tap, ballet, lyrical, contemporary, acrobatics, and jazz.

Ziegler has a younger sister, Mackenzie, who starred on Dance Moms with her, two older half-brothers from her father’s previous marriage, and two older step-siblings from her stepfather’s previous marriage, Greg Gisoni, a vice president at Westinghouse Electric Company.

Maddie Ziegler Education

Ziegler attended Sloan Elementary School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh, until 2013, when she left to be homeschooled. Ziegler grew up in Murrysville but began working and spending most of her time in Los Angeles as a teenager.

Maddie Ziegler Career

Ziegler earned multiple titles at regional, state, and national dance competitions with Abby Lee Dance Company, including the 2014 Dancers Choice Award for Favorite Dancer 17 & Under. In 2010, she appeared on Paula Abdul’s reality show Live to Dance. In 2011, Ziegler, then eight years old, and her mother participated in the first season of Lifetime’s Dance Moms, a reality show about the young dancers on Abby Lee Miller’s Abby Lee Dance Company Elite Competition Team and their frequently bickering mothers.

In 2015, Ziegler co-starred alongside Shia LaBeouf in “Elastic Heart,” another Sia video that has over 1 billion YouTube views. Later that year, Ziegler appeared in the “Big Girls Cry” music video, completing her trilogy of videos from Sia’s album 1000 Forms of Fear. Ziegler “emerged as the preternaturally polished standout on six seasons” on the show, where she appeared alongside her mother and younger sister, Mackenzie, until their final season in 2016.