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Chandler Kinney (born August 3, 2000) is an American actress. 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.

Early life and education[]

Kinney was born on August 3, 2000, in Sacramento, California. She started dancing when she was three, and is trained in tap, ballet, contemporary, jazz and hip-hop. She studied dance at the Los Angeles Ballet Academy, the Kirov Academy of Ballet, and the Debbie Allen Dance Academy. She began acting at age nine. She also has a black belt in martial arts.

Kinney and her mother founded the organization Chandler's Friends, which helps disadvantaged youths. She was homeschooled, and took a gap year before she studied at UCLA.

Career[]

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. Her first major role was as Catherine Dillman in Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street. She then went on to star as Riana Murtaugh in Lethal Weapon. In 2020, she joined the Z-O-M-B-I-E-S franchise as Willa, a werewolf who first appears in Zombies 2.

In July 2021, Kinney was announced to be starring in Pretty Little Liars, a 2022 spinoff of Pretty Little Liars. It was announced she would be playing Tabby, an aspiring director and horror movie buff.

On September 4, 2024, Kinney was announced as a celebrity dancer on season 33 of Dancing with the Stars. She is partnered with professional dancer Brandon Armstrong.

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