Chandler Kinney

Chandler Kinney (born August 3, 2000) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Willa in Disney's Zombies franchise and Tabby Haworthe in Pretty Little Liars (2022–2024).

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, jazz and hip-hop. She studied dance at 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. She majored in psychology at UCLA, but left school to film Pretty Little Liars.

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 July 2021, Kinney was announced to be starring in Pretty Little Liars, a 2022 spinoff of the 2010 television series of the same name. It was announced she would be playing Tabby, an aspiring director and horror movie buff.

Dancing with the Stars

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. Earning both the highest cumulative points based on judges' scores and the first perfect score of the season, Kinney and Armstrong are the first Black partnership in Dancing with the Stars history to advance to the finale. Their freestyle routine was the show's first performance to feature an ensemble cast of all-Black dancers.

Filmography

Film

Short films

Television