Chandler Kinney | |
|---|---|
 Kinney in 2022 | |
| Born | August 3, 2000 |
| Years active | 2012–present |
Chandler Kinney (born August 3, 2000) [1] [2] is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Willa in Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S franchise and Tabby Haworthe in Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin .
Kinney was born on August 3, 2000, in Sacramento, California. [3] She started dancing when she was three, and is trained in tap, jazz and hip-hop. She studied dance at the Debbie Allen Dance Academy. [4] She began acting at age nine. She also has a black belt in martial arts. [5]
Kinney and her mother founded the organization Chandler's Friends, which helps disadvantaged youths. [6] She was homeschooled, and took a gap year before she studied at UCLA. [7]
Throughout her early acting career, she had guest roles on the Disney Channel shows Girl Meets World and K.C. Undercover , and the Nickelodeon show The Haunted Hathaways . [8] Her first major role was as Catherine Dillman in Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street . [9] She then went on to star as Riana Murtaugh in Lethal Weapon. [7] In 2020, she joined the Z-O-M-B-I-E-S franchise as Willa, a werewolf who first appears in Zombies 2 . [10] [11]
In July 2021, Kinney was announced to be starring in Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin , a 2022 spinoff of Pretty Little Liars . It was announced she would be playing Tabby, an aspiring director and horror movie buff. [12]
On September 4, 2024, Kinney was announced as a contestant on season 33 of Dancing with the Stars. She was partnered with professional dancer Brandon Armstrong. [13] Earning both the highest cumulative points based on judges' scores and the first perfect score of the season, [14] [15] Kinney and Armstrong are the first Black partnership in Dancing with the Stars history to advance to the finale. [16] Their freestyle routine was the show's first performance to feature an ensemble cast of all-Black dancers. [17] Kinney and Armstrong ultimately finished in third place on November 26, 2024, behind runners-up Ilona Maher and her partner Alan Bersten, and winners Joey Graziadei and his partner Jenna Johnson. [18]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Battlefield America | Chantel | |
| 2013 | Company Town | Ally McKinley | Television movie |
| 2020 | Zombies 2 | Willa | |
| 2022 | Zombies 3 | ||
| TBD | Hidden Secrets 4: Back in Time | Mariah | Television movie, in production |
| TBD | Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires | Willa |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Zombies 2: Wolf Tales | Willa | Voice role |
| Addison's Moonstone Mystery | |||
| 2021 | ZOMBIES: Addison's Monster Mystery | ||
| 2023 | Zombies: The Re-Animated Series Shorts | ||
| 2024-present | Zombies: The Re-Animated Series |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | American Horror Story | Older Julia | Episode: "Madness Ends" |
| 90210 | Olivia | Episode: "You Can't Win Em All" | |
| 2014 | The Haunted Hathaways | Mirabelle | 6 episodes |
| 2014–2016 | Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street | Catherine Dillman | Main role |
| 2015 | Girl Meets World | Vanessa | Episode: "Girl Meets Texas: Part 2" |
| 2016–2019 | Lethal Weapon | Riana Murtaugh | Main role |
| 2017 | K.C. Undercover | Monique | 2 episodes |
| 2021 | The Ghost and Molly McGee | Tammy Myers (voice) | Episode: "Howlin' Harriet/The (Un)natural" |
| 2022 | Robot Chicken | Buttercup, MJ, Animal Adoption Woman (voice) | Episode: "May Cause a Squeakquel" |
| 2022–2024 | Pretty Little Liars | Tabitha "Tabby" Haworthe | Main role |
| 2024 | Dancing with the Stars | Herself | 3rd Place on season 33 |
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