Reneé Rapp is an American singer-songwriter and actress from Huntersville, North Carolina, born in 2000, who played Regina George in Mean Girls on Broadway and again in the 2024 film. Her 2023 debut LP Snow Angel was the commercial breakthrough — start there. Find Reneé Rapp vinyl, CDs, and reissues at Wax Trax Records.
Reneé Mary Jane Rapp was born in Huntersville, North Carolina on January 10, 2000. She won the 2018 Jimmy Award for Best Performance by an Actress for her high school musical theater work. She launched her Broadway career as Regina George in the original Broadway production of Mean Girls (the musical, 2019-2020, until the COVID-19 pandemic closed the production). She subsequently transitioned to television and film acting work - notably the HBO Max series The Sex Lives of College Girls (2021-2023, as Leighton) and the 2024 Mean Girls film adaptation (reprising her Regina George role). She came out as bisexual and subsequently as a lesbian in public statements. She launched her recording career with the EP Everything to Everyone (2022) and the 2023 LP Snow Angel - commercial breakthrough.
Reneé Rapp's sound combines pop, dance-pop, electropop, alternative pop, R&B, and ballad-pop with her distinctive vocal delivery (musical theater training), atmospheric production approaches, and lyrical content addressing relationships, queer identity, mental health, and personal experience drawing on contemporary pop traditions.
Interscope Records pressings of the Reneé Rapp catalog have been issued in multiple color variant editions and limited deluxe pressings.
Listeners new to Reneé Rapp typically start with Snow Angel (2023).
