Madison Nicole Ziegler is an American dancer, actress, author and model. She was initially known for appearing in Lifetime’s reality show Dance Moms from 2011 until 2016. From 2014 to 2017, she gained wider recognition for starring in a series of music videos by Sia. Her 2017 memoir, The Maddie Diaries, was a New York Times Best Seller. In 2019 she began dating singer Eddie Benjamin.
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Madison Nicole Ziegler is an American dancer, actress, author and model. She was initially known for appearing in Lifetime’s reality show Dance Moms from 2011 until 2016. From 2014 to 2017, she gained wider recognition for starring in a series of music videos by Sia. Her 2017 memoir, The Maddie Diaries, was a New York Times Best Seller. She voiced the character Camille Le Haut in the animated film Ballerina and appeared as Christina Sickleman in the feature film The Book of Henry. Her social media presence includes an Instagram account with more than 13 million followers. In 2019 she began dating singer Eddie Benjamin. She has appeared in music videos for such artists as Alexx Calise, Sia and Todrick Hall. She also appeared as a judge on the 2016 season of So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation, toured with Sia in North America and Australia in 2016 and 2017 and has given dance tours with her sister, Mackenzie. She is of Polish, German and Italian descent. Her parents divorced in 2011, and her mother married Greg Gisoni in 2013. Her older half-brothers are from her father’s previous marriage, and two older step-siblings from the previous marriage of her step-father, Greg Gisonsi, a vice-president at Westinghouse Electric Company. Her younger sister is Mackenzie, a dancer and singer who appeared with her on Dance MOMs. She attended Sloan Elementary School in Murrysville, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, until 2013, when she left to be homeschooled. She began taking dance lessons at the age of two and joined the Abby Lee Dance Company at age four, where she trained in tap, ballet, lyrical, contemporary, acro, jazz and aerial dance.
In 2010, she performed for Paula Abdul’s reality television program Live to Dance. She gained wide notice by starring in the 2014 video for \”Chandelier\”, which won the ARIA Music Award for Best Video and received nominations at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards for Video of the Year and Best Choreography, winning the latter. In 2015, she starred with Shia LaBeouf in another Sia video, which has accumulated more than 1billion views on YouTube. She was included by Time magazine on its list of the \”30 most influential teens\” in each of 2015, 2016 and2017. She appeared on the first season of Lifetime’s Dance M moms, a reality show about the young dancers on Abby Lee Miller’s AbbyLee Dance Company Elite Competition Team and their often quarrelsome mothers. She continued to appear alongside her mother and younger sister until 2016, their last season on the show. She won numerous titles at regional, state and national dance competitions, including the 2014 Dancers Choice Award for Favorite Dancer 17 & Under. In 2018, she dated Australian teenager Jack Kelly, the son of former New York Yankees infielder Pat Kelly. She said of the competition: “It was really different and weird for me, because I usually don’t know, you know, a crazy person every time. But this time it was like you’re like, Point your legs!
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