Mackenzie Ziegler Religion

What religion is Mackenzie Ziegler?

Mackenzie Ziegler is an American dancer, singer, actress, and model who is a Christian. She was raised in a Christian household.

Mackenzie Ziegler built a successful entertainment career after gaining national recognition on Dance Moms, where she appeared from 2011 to 2016. She later transitioned into music with the albums Mack Z (2014), Phases (2018), and Biting My Tongue (2024). She has also toured with Johnny Orlando and released several collaborative and solo singles. Her career expanded beyond music through starring roles in Total Eclipse, appearances in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn, participation in Dancing with the Stars: Juniors, and voice acting projects. She has also worked with fashion brands including Polo Ralph Lauren and built one of the largest social media audiences among former child reality television stars.

Mackenzie Ziegler has received several industry honors, including the People’s Choice Award for Favorite Social Music Star, multiple Teen Choice Award nominations, and recognition as one of the most influential young entertainers to emerge from Dance Moms. She remains active as a singer, actress, dancer, model, and digital creator, with a career spanning television, music, fashion, and online media.

Early life

Mackenzie Ziegler, born Mackenzie Frances Ziegler on June 4, 2004, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as Taylor before being renamed Mackenzie two days after birth. She was raised in Pennsylvania, where her mother Melissa enrolled both Mackenzie and her sister Maddie in the Abby Lee Dance Company (ALDC) at age two, and she remained at the studio from ages two to eleven as part of the ALDC Jr. Elite Competition team before leaving the company when she departed Dance Moms at age eleven and later danced with Maddie at Dance Mechanics. Her parents divorced in 2011 when she was 7, and her mother remarried in 2013 when she was 9. To support her intensive dance commitments, Ziegler began homeschooling in 2013 and continued this education format thereafter.

Television breakthrough

Ziegler first appeared on television in 2011 on Lifetime’s reality dance show Dance Moms, alongside her mother and sister. During her time on Dance Moms, she won a national title for her solo performance in season 2’s finale and later performed her only hip-hop solo on the show, “Bully,” before leaving the series and the dance company in 2016 after six seasons to pursue other projects. Ziegler also appeared on Dance Moms’ sister shows, Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition and Abby’s Studio Rescue.

Music career

Ziegler’s music career began with her 2014 studio album, Mack Z. The album peaked at number one on the iTunes pop charts and number seven on iTunes’ overall album sales chart. The music video for the album’s lead single “Girl Party” also reached number one on the iTunes pop chart. Following Mack Z, she released several singles and albums, including her 2015 duet with Johnny Orlando, “Day & Night,” her 2017 single “Monsters (aka Haters),” her 2017 single “Breathe,” her 2018 album Phases with tracks like “What If (I Told You I Like You),” and her 2019 single “Emoceans.” Her third album, Biting My Tongue, was released in 2024. Later in 2024, she joined Mark Ambor on his Rockwood tour. In mid-2019, Ziegler signed with Arista Records and toured the US as the warm-up act for PrettyMuch.

Subsequently, in April 2026, she released an EP, Notes from the In Between.

Acting career

In 2015, Mackenzie Ziegler began her acting career with her first role as a guest on the Nickelodeon sitcom Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn. She later became a main cast member on the Brat digital series Total Eclipse, where from 2018 to 2020 she portrayed Cassie, a teenage girl dealing with unpopularity and personal struggles, and also appeared in the Brat film Holiday Spectacular and a Wizard of Oz musical. She also stars as the title character in the animated film Ice Princess Lily, released in the US in November 2019. She appeared on Celebrity Family Feud in 2019 together with her sister, mother, aunt, and dancer Charlize Glass and appeared on The Masked Dancer in 2020.

Author

In addition to her work in music and acting, Ziegler released a self-help book in May 2018 titled Kenzie’s Rules for Life: How to be Happy, Healthy, and Dance to Your Own Beat, described as “a collection of inspirational, upbeat lessons for kids learning to navigate life.” The book ranked No. 7 on the Publishers Weekly best-seller list for juvenile non-fiction.

Brand endorsements

In 2016, Ziegler and her sister were the faces of Clean & Clear’s fall back-to-school campaign. Ziegler was the face of Polo Ralph Lauren’s children’s spring 2016 collection and was named a brand ambassador for girls’ fashion line Emily West in 2017. In 2016, Ziegler collaborated with TurnBoard to release the Kenzie Ziegler TurnBoard, a turning practice tool for dancers. In 2017 and 2018, Ziegler collaborated on dance-inspired activewear clothing lines with tween retailer Justice, which also collaborated with her on a video of her song “Teamwork,” a back-to-school social media campaign with an anti-bullying theme. Later that year, Ziegler released a t-shirt line called Tee4Too, and with FanJoy in 2019, she released a line of sweatshirts and t-shirts.

Philanthropy

In 2012, Ziegler, along with her mother and sister, partnered with Starlight Children’s Foundation to help raise awareness for chronically ill youth. Ziegler has also partnered with foundations such as Love Your Melon and Dancers Against Cancer to raise awareness and funding for childhood cancer. In 2016, Ziegler and her sister made a public service announcement for DoSomething.org’s Birthday Mail campaign, which enables people to send homemade birthday cards to children living in homeless shelters, with the same organization placing the Ziegler sisters on their 2016 list of charitable young celebrities. In 2018, she collaborated with Build-A-Bear Workshop to donate 500 teddy bears to Baby2Baby, a nonprofit providing basic necessities to children living in poverty, to fulfill Christmas wishes for families in need. In 2018, Ziegler performed at the first We Day Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Personal life

Ziegler began a relationship with actor Isaak Presley in 2019, but the two split in 2020. Later in 2020, she began dating Tacoda Dubbs, and they broke up in late 2023.

As of the time of writing this, Ziegler maintains a significant social media presence, with over 13.5 million Instagram followers and 23 million TikTok followers, alongside 3 million YouTube subscribers and one million Twitter followers.