Abby Lee Miller

About

Abigale Lee Miller (born September 21, 1965) is an American dance instructor, choreographer, and television personality. With a career in dance instruction and choreography spanning over four decades, Miller established the Abby Lee Dance Company (ALDC) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the late 1980s. Miller’s studio became the subject of the Lifetime reality series Dance Moms (2011–2019). The show’s success prompted Miller to receive subsequent notoriety and spin-off shows of her own: Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition (2012–13) and Abby’s Studio Rescue (2014).

Abby Lee Miller was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1965, to Maryen Lorrain Miller (née McKay; 1927–2014), a dance teacher and studio owner, and George L. “Salty” Miller (1927–2000), a railroad yardmaster.

Miller grew up around dance in Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, studying under her mother’s direction at the Maryen Lorrain Dance Studio. In 1980, when she was just 14, Miller formed the Abby Lee Dance Company, a dance team at her mother’s studio. Miller eventually took over the studio in 1995, and renamed it Reign Dance Productions. Miller became certified by Dance Masters of America (DMA) and became…