CULTURETECHLENSNia Sioux
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Combined Graph record U-07345 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-6130.
Nia Sioux Frazier, born 20 June 2001 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is an American dancer, actress, singer and author. The daughter of Holly and Evan Frazier, she began training at the Abby Lee Dance Company at age three and was cast at nine, with her mother, on Lifetime's Dance Moms, appearing in all seven seasons from 2011 to 2017 as the team's longest-serving member and, for most of the run, its only Black dancer. Frequently ranked at the bottom of the show's weekly pyramid, she also released singles including "Star in Your Own Life" and "Slay." She made her off-Broadway debut in Trip of Love in 2016 and played Emma Barber on CBS's The Bold and the Beautiful from 2018 to 2019. She graduated from UCLA in 2024. Her memoir, Bottom of the Pyramid, was published in November 2025 and became a New York Times bestseller; in 2026 she performed off-Broadway in 11 to Midnight and in Mean Girls at Pittsburgh CLO.
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Nia Sioux Frazier, born 20 June 2001 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is an American dancer, actress, singer and author. The daughter of Holly and Evan Frazier, she began training at the Abby Lee Dance Company at age three and was cast at nine, with her mother, on Lifetime's Dance Moms, appearing in all seven seasons from 2011 to 2017 as the team's longest-serving member and, for most of the run, its only Black dancer.
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- Also known as: Nia Sioux Frazier
Notes
Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 6 — 747 Program, Wave 12; 27-record packet). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Nia Sioux entity in the live graph at 3,843 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-6130 assigned at assembly. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 1718 (Instagram Stars list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — African American dancer, actress and author from Pittsburgh; the only Black dancer on the Dance Moms team for most of its run, in her own account given to People (reported by The Jasmine Brand, 20 May 2025) and in Publishers Weekly's review of her memoir. Vital status: LIVING — performed in 11 to Midnight off-Broadway in May 2026 and in Mean Girls at Pittsburgh CLO, 7–12 July 2026 (Playbill, 27 May 2026; BroadwayWorld, 1 Jun 2026). STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Seven seasons of Dance Moms, 2011–2017, as the longest-serving cast member (Wikipedia); 59 episodes as Emma Barber on The Bold and the Beautiful, 2018–2019 (IMDb credit listing); Bottom of the Pyramid an immediate New York Times Best Seller in 2025 (BroadwayWorld, 20 Apr 2026). MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: Pittsburgh CLO production photograph of Nia Sioux in Mean Girls, July 2026; no file page read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001; a CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-6130-nia-sioux.svg); video HELD (Shorts Link Map checked by name and variants — no matching-entity CTL Short); audio HELD (no rights basis). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging.)
Relationships
- Asia Monet Ray — collaborated with
Both were members of the Abby Lee Dance Company junior elite team on Dance Moms, overlapping in the 2013 season, when Asia joined the team Nia was on.
Sources
- Playbill, 'Nia Sioux Joins Cast of Mean Girls at Pittsburgh CLO' (27 May 2026) — Sioux, then appearing in the off-Broadway dance piece 11 to Midnight, cast in a featured ensemble role in Pittsburgh CLO's Mean Girls, performing 7–12 July 2026; a Pittsburgh native who rose to prominence on Dance Moms; off-Broadway debut in 2016's Trip of Love — https://playbill.com/article/nia-sioux-joins-cast-of-mean-girls-at-pittsburgh-clo (primary source · build store)
- Business Wire / Harper Horizon, 'Dance Moms Star Nia Sioux to Release Debut Book, Bottom of the Pyramid, With Harper Horizon on November 4, 2025' (20 May 2025) — Sioux, nine years old when she joined Dance Moms as an original cast member, releases her debut memoir on 4 Nov 2025 — https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250520734017/en/Dance-Moms-Star-Nia-Sioux-to-Release-Debut-Book-Bottom-of-the-Pyramid-With-Harper-Horizon-on-November-4-2025 (build store)
- Wikipedia, 'Nia Sioux' — Nia Sioux Frazier, born 20 June 2001 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Holly and Evan Frazier; began training at the Abby Lee Dance Company as a young child; appeared in seven seasons of Dance Moms, 2011–2017, the longest-serving cast member with her mother; regular role of Emma Barber on The Bold and the Beautiful, 2018–2019; studied American Literature and Culture at UCLA, graduating in 2024 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nia_Sioux (build store)
- The Jasmine Brand, ''Dance Moms' Alum Nia Sioux Reflects On Being 'Ostracized For Not Fitting Into' A Certain Aesthetic In New Memoir, 'Bottom of the Pyramid'' (20 May 2025), reporting her People interview — Sioux starred on Dance Moms from ages 9 to 15 and was the only Black dancer for most of the show's run — https://thejasminebrand.com/2025/05/20/dance-moms-alum-nia-sioux-reflects-on-the-lasting-effects-of-being-the-only-black-girl-on-the-reality-series-in-new-memoir-bottom-of-the-pyramid/ (build store)
- BroadwayWorld, 'DANCE MOMS' Nia Sioux to Join Cost n' Mayor's 11 TO MIDNIGHT Off-Broadway' (20 Apr 2026) — Sioux joins 11 to Midnight off-Broadway; her 2025 memoir Bottom of the Pyramid became an immediate New York Times Best Seller across print, e-book and audiobook lists — https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/DANCE-MOMS-Nia-Sioux-to-Join-Cost-n-Mayors-11-TO-MIDNIGHT-Off-Broadway-20260420 (build store)
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Nia Sioux at a Vanderpump Dog Foundation event, Hollywood
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