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She had two cats, Skeekies and Snowbellies, as a kid.
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The entire cast of The Nanny, which Madeline starred on, continues to remain close. Madeline speaks with the cast often.
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Madeline's two younger sisters go to a public school unlike her.
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Madeline's father is a computer programmer and her mother is a writer.
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At one point after she auditioned five times for the movie The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, she decided she wanted to quit show business. However, she was encouraged to go back for the sixth call back. At the audition, she got the role as Emma.
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Madeline and her little sister, Yvonne, once worked together in the movie The Secret Path. Yvonne played a younger version of Madeline's character, Jo Ann.
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Madeline's two sisters, Vanessa and Yvonne, are both younger than her.
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Madeline hopes that one day she can be on the show Saturday Night Live. She studies improv, sketch, and comedy writing in her free time.
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Madeline and her sister Vanessa were found by Woody Allen. He wanted them to act for his movie Alice.
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Even though she was born in Connecticut, Madeline was raised in the state of Pennsylvania.
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Her favorite school subject is art.
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Madeline got her role on the show Guiding Light after the casting directors saw a commercial she was in.
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Madeline starred in many national commercials in the state of New York when she was a child.
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Some of her nicknames include Mad, Maddie, Madsters.
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Madeline supports the charity organization American Society For The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA).
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Madeline's favorite The Nanny episodes are "Imaginary Friend" and "Not Without My Nanny."
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Madeline learned to play a violin for her role in the made-for television movie The Sandy Bottom Orchestra.
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Her favorite scene in A Cinderella Story was the carwash.
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She has had 10 nominations for Young Artist Award and 3 for Young Star Award, mostly for her performance in the TV series The Nanny.
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She is homeschooled through a program called the Laurel Springs Home School.
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She and her sisters, Yvonne and Vanessa, have their own website, The ZIMA Sisters' Official Home Page. They set the site up so fans can send them mail. All of the sisters answer as many as they can.
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Her parent's names are Dennis and Maria.
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She loves to snowboard, paint, dance and swim and spends lots of time with her sisters who are also actresses and writers.
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Madeline sings, plays guitar, horseback rides, writes songs, screenplays, is rehabbing her house and is working on a novel.
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Her height is 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 metres).