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February 2024
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On stage and screen, RENEÉ RAPP plays a queen bee. In real life, she's more a Janis Ian type
Reneé Rapp’s parents wanted her to go to college. She wanted to be a pop star. After detours to Broadway (where she played Regina George in Mean Girls) and Max (starring in Mindy Kaling’s The Sex Lives of College Girls), Rapp is doing just that while keeping her options open: She’s also Regina in Tina Fey’s Mean Girls musical movie, now in theaters. “I thought that I was a horrible actor,” says Rapp. “I thought that I was terrible at songwriting. And now those are the two things that I’m fucking doing.”
BORN IN North Carolina (“Any person who’s sort of translucent, I’m a descendant of ”), Rapp was raised by parents who owned a music store.
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