Maddie Ziegler

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Ziegler on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

### Siblings

Michele Gisoni · Matthew Gisoni · Ryan Ziegler · Tyler Ziegler · Mackenzie Ziegler

## Career

### Collaborations with Sia

"Oh Body" · "Best Friend (You and Me for Life)" · "Could I Love With No Fear"

"*Move your body, move your body*"
—Sia
**Madison Nicole Ziegler** (born 30 September 2002), better known as **Maddie Ziegler**, is an american dancer, actress and model. She is known for appearing on Lifetime's reality show *Dance Moms* and for starring in Sia's music videos, including "Chandelier", "Elastic Heart", "The Greatest" and one of the "Cheap Thrills" videos, which cumulatively have attracted more than 5 billion views on YouTube. She has accompanied Sia as a featured dancer for several live appearances, including the Nostalgic for the Present Tour of 2016, and also appears in LSD videos.

Ziegler also portrays Music Gamble, a young woman in the autism spectrum, in Sia's film *Music*. She not only dances in its musical numbers, but sings in three of them.

## Background

Ziegler was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Melissa Ziegler-Gisoni and Kurt Ziegler, who owned a mortgage company. She is of Polish, German and Italian descent. Her parents divorced in 2011, citing the financial and emotional toll that dance took on the family. She has been an active member of the Abby Lee Dance Company since the age of two. She trains in tap, ballet, lyrical, contemporary, acro, jazz, and aerial dance. Maddie Ziegler has a younger sister, Mackenzie (b. June 4, 2004), who appears with her on *Dance Moms*, two older half-brothers from her father's previous marriage, and two older step-siblings from the previous marriage of her step-father, Greg Gisoni, a vice-president at Westinghouse Electric Company.

Ziegler attended Sloan Elementary School until 2013, when she left to be homeschooled. Ziegler and her family have long lived in Murrysville, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh, and now split their time between Murrysville and Los Angeles.

## Trivia

* Ziegler is Sia's goddaughter, along with her younger sister Mackenzie.
* Although Ziegler sings in *Music*, she has said that she is insecure about her singing voice.

## Videography

### Sia videos

* "Chandelier" (2014)
* "Elastic Heart" (2015)
* "Big Girls Cry" (2015)
* "Cheap Thrills" (Performance Edit, 2016)
* "The Greatest" (2016)
* "Rainbow" (2017)
* "Together" (2020)

### LSD videos

* "Thunderclouds" (2018)
* "No New Friends" (2019)

### Other videos

* "Summer Love Song" (Brooke, 2012)
* "Shine" (Mack Z, 2014)
* "Freaks Like Me" (Todrick Hall, 2014)
* "Taylor in Wonderland" (Todrick Hall, 2016)
* "DANCE" (Todrick Hall, 2016)
* "Graduation" (Benny Blanco and Juice Wrld, 2019)
* "Cry" (Alexx Calise, 2021)
* "Speechless" (Eddie Benjamin, 2021)

## Filmography

### Film

* *Ballerina* (2016)
* *The Book of Henry* (2017)
* *To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You* (2020)
* *Music* (2021)
* *The Fallout* (2021)
* *West Side Story* (2021)
* *Fitting In* (2023)
* *My Old Ass* (2024)

### Television

* *Dance Moms* (2011-2016)
* *Drop Dead Diva* (2012)
* *Austin & Ally* (2015)
* *Pretty Little Liars* (2015)
* *Nicky, Ricky, Dicky, & Dawn* (2016-2017)
* *Spirit Riding Free* (2019)
* *Scooby Doo and Guess Who?* (2020)

## Discography

* *Music (The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)* (2021)

## Gallery

Ziegler in "Chandelier"On *The Ellen DeGeneres Show* in 2015In "Cheap Thrills"In a promotional photo for *Everyday Is Christmas*In "No New Friends"In "Rainbow"In "The Greatest"In "Thunderclouds"As Music2021 Instagram postIn "Best Friend"
## References

1. ↑ http://www.ziegler-girls.com/maddie-about/