Reneé Rapp

Reneé Rapp initiated her professional path via a Broadway role in Mean Girls while still a teenager during 2019. Her first television performance came in 2021 through a part in The Sex Lives of College Girls. The insecure pop ballad "Tattoos" served as her major-label introduction in 2022, preceding the EP Everything to Everyone. After "Too Well" registered on the charts, she issued her opening full-length effort, Snow Angel, in 2023. For the 2024 screen adaptation of the Mean Girls musical she once again embodied Regina George.

Active on stage from childhood onward, Reneé Rapp entered the world and spent her early years in North Carolina, where she started composing and tracking material during her teenage period. Her breakthrough arrived in 2019 when she was selected as temporary stand-in for Taylor Louderman, the originator of Regina George, inside the Broadway staging of Mean Girls. That placement produced on-air slots on Today and within 2020's Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration. She entered the original ensemble of the HBO Max series The Sex Lives of College Girls in 2021 as Leighton. Between the first and second seasons she delivered her Interscope Records debut, the insecure ballad "Tattoos," which she co-wrote with Michael Pollack (Julia Michaels, Jonas Brothers), Jacob Kasher (Lady Gaga, the Chainsmokers), and Isabella Sjöstrand (Machine Gun Kelly, Kiana Lede). The seven-song EP Everything to Everyone surfaced in November, and "Too Well" appeared on Billboard's Pop Airplay chart plus the New Zealand listings. She maintained her musical emphasis in 2023 by unveiling the title track ahead of her debut album Snow Angel, released that August; the project climbed into the U.K. Top 10 and registered outside the U.S. Top 40.

In 2024 she revisited North Shore High School by resuming the role of Regina George for the theatrical Mean Girls musical adaptation. During promotional duties she performed as musical guest on Saturday Night Live, presented by her predecessor Rachel McAdams.
~ Marcy Donelson