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 2020, she joined the Zombies 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 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. Week #Dance / SongJudges' scoresResultInabaHoughTonioliGuestTotal1Tango / "Hot to Go!"878No elimination2Rumba / "What Was I Made For?"888Safe3 Cha-cha-cha / "It's Tricky"9999No eliminationJive / "We're Not Gonna Take It"888933Safe4Contemporary / "I Hope You Dance" 8 8 8 832Safe5Paso doble / "We Own the Night"Team Freestyle / "I 2 I" 99 99 99 Safe6Viennese waltz / "Secret" 9 10 10Safe7 Argentine tango / "Para Te"Instant Cha-cha-cha / "Apple"101010101010Safe8 Salsa / "Spicy Margarita"Foxtrot / "Too Sweet"109910101029No elimination9Jive / "APT"Freestyle / "Hellzapoppin" & "Move On Up"1010101010103rd placeKinney 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.
Filmography
Film YearTitleRoleNotes2012Battlefield AmericaChantel2013Company TownAlly McKinleyTelevision movie2020Zombies 2Willa Lykensen2022Zombies 32025Zombies 4: Dawn of the VampiresHidden Secrets 4: Back in TimeMariahTelevision movie, in production
Short films YearTitleRoleNotes2020Zombies 2: Wolf TalesWilla LykensenVoice roleAddison's Moonstone Mystery2021Zombies: Addison's Monster Mystery2023Zombies: The Re-Animated Series Shorts
Television YearTitleRoleNotes2013American Horror Story: AsylumOlder JuliaEpisode: "Madness Ends"90210OliviaEpisode: "You Can't Win Em All"2014The Haunted HathawaysMirabelle6 episodes2014–2016Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal StreetCatherine DillmanMain role2015Girl Meets WorldVanessaEpisode: "Girl Meets Texas: Part 2"2016–2019Lethal WeaponRiana MurtaughMain role2017K.C. UndercoverMonique2 episodes2021The Ghost and Molly McGeeTammy Myers (voice)Episode: "Howlin' Harriet/The (Un)natural"2022Robot ChickenButtercup, MJ, Animal Adoption Woman (voice)Episode: "May Cause a Squeakquel"2022–2024Pretty Little LiarsTabitha "Tabby" HawortheMain role2024Dancing with the StarsHerself3rd Place on season 332024Zombies: The Re-Animated SeriesWilla (voice)Main role2026ElleKimberly
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