Maddie Ziegler

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"Move your body, move your body"
—Sia

Madison Nicole Ziegler (born 30 September 2002),^[1] 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.
She initially became known for being in Lifetime's hit reality TV show Dance Moms, along with her younger sister Mackenzie Ziegler, from seasons 1 to 6.