The best Maddie Ziegler movies and TV shows include several that showcase her talents as a dancer and singer, but she is proving to be much more than that as her acting career progresses. Maddie got her start as a little girl when she appeared in the first season of the Lifetime reality series Dance Moms at the age of eight, although she had been working with Dance Moms host Abby Lee Miller since she was four. She won several competitions nationally and caught Hollywood's eye.

After making some appearances in music videos for Sia and Todrick Hall, Ziegler went on to start a full-time acting career after a few small guest roles on television shows. Since then, she has done voice-acting in animated movies, taken roles in musical movies and dramas alike, and got the biggest break of her career when Steven Spielberg cast her in his remake of West Side Story.