Meg Donnelly

Meg Elizabeth Donnelly (born July 25, 2000) is an American actress. She portrayed Ash in the Netflix comedy series Team Toon, Taylor Otto in the ABC sitcom American Housewife, and Addison in the 2018 Disney Channel Original Movie Zombies and its 2020 sequel, Zombies 2.

Early life

Donnelly was born in New York City and grew up in Peapack-Gladstone, New Jersey. She is an only child. She began training in voice, dance and acting at the Annie’s Playhouse School of Performing Arts in Far Hills, New Jersey at the age of six. She has appeared as a featured vocalist in several Kids of the Arts, Broadway Kids and Time To Shine productions in New York City.

Career

Donnelly co-starred as Ash in the 2013 Netflix series Team Toon. She was the American face of Clean and Clear's 2015 Awkward to Awesome campaign, and was the understudy for the role of Louisa von Trapp in the NBC television special The Sound of Music Live!. Donnelly also appeared in the feature film The Broken Ones that premiered at the 2017 SOHO International Film Festival.

Donnelly played the starring role of Taylor Otto in the ABC sitcom American Housewife from 2016 to 2021. On August 5, 2018, Donnelly released her first single, "Smile". On March 1, 2019, Donnelly released her second single, "Digital Love".

She stars as Addison in the Disney Channel Original Movie musical Zombies that premiered on February 16, 2018. In February 2019, it was announced that Donnelly would be reprising her role as Addison for a Zombies sequel, Zombies 2, which premiered on Disney Channel on February 14, 2020.

At only 19 years old Meg Donnelly born in New York City and raised in Peapack, New Jersey is already being hailed as the next breakout star in Hollywood & The Music Industry. She has quickly become known for her impeccable comedic timing on camera, innate abilities and swag as a singer / songwriter and the refreshing, free spirit she brings to every project she is involved with. She makes people smile. Donnelly can currently be seen starring on ABC’s hit comedy series “American Housewife.” Where she shines as ‘Taylor’, who was an awkward, homely student and suddenly grew out of her ugly-duckling phase.

Meg released her debut single “SMILE” in June of 2018 which quickly hit #1 on Radio Disney’s TOP 10 Airplay Chart. The music video for the single has almost 2 million views on her YouTube Channel. She followed up her debut single with “Digital Love” which accompanied Radio Disney’s announcement of her being named the newest NBT (Next Big Thing). Past NBT Alums include the likes of Shawn Mendez and Camila Cabello. As a singer Meg has well over 350 million views on YouTube and over 25 million streams on Spotify.

Meg’s current single, “With U” features the Multi-Platinum / Award Winning Artist Fetty Wap was released May 17th across all download & streaming platforms. Fetty Wap also makes an appearance in the Music Video for “With U”.

Meg is set to perform “With U” live on ABC’s The ARDY’s (Radio Disney Music Awards) with Fetty Wap on June 16th.