Maddie’s career started at the tender age of 10, in Greg Davies’ sitcom MAN DOWN. She quickly progressed to a series regular role in children’s comedy HANK ZIPZER with Henry Winkleman, and the PROFESSOR BRAINSTAWM film series, starring alongside Harry Hill as his young apprentice.

As well as on screen comedy, Maddie has worked on dramas including THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT and THE DURRELLS, and made her theatre debut in 2021 at the National Theatre, in Jack Thorne’s AFTER LIFE. She was soon cast in Steven Moffatt’s farce THE UNFRIEND at Chichester Festival Theatre, which had two record breaking West End transfers.

Playing the daughter of comedians including Lee Mack, Aisling Bea and Reece Shearsmith, and under the direction of Mark Gatiss, Maddie has taken every opportunity to learn from the talents she’s been lucky enough to work alongside.

Of her time working on Hank Zipzer, Henry Winkler wrote in his autobiography “Maddie Holliday was Hank’s annoying younger sister, she was ten at the time, and this was one of her very first acting jobs. During a scene in the pilot, I threw her an ad lib as I exited, and she threw an ad lib right back, as if she’d been doing it for years.