Reneé Rapp

Reneé Rapp is a lesbian actress and singer who came out as a lesbian in early 2024, having previously identified as bisexual, in a last-minute decision to change her introduction from "bisexual" to "gay" while appearing in a sketch introduced by Bowen Yang on Saturday Night Live. She later credited the Tumblr resource known as the "Lesbian Masterdoc" and a new circle of queer, nonbinary, and trans friends with helping her arrive at the label, saying she'd previously felt she "had to be bisexual" before realizing "no, I'm actually just gay like that." Rapp first gained wide attention when she originated the role of Regina George in the Broadway revival of Mean Girls (2018), bringing a commanding physical presence and emotional depth to the iconic queen bee role. She reprised the character in the 2024 film adaptation, for which she also contributed original songs. On Max's The Sex Lives of College Girls (2021), she plays Leighton Murray, a closeted lesbian whose arc across the series tracks a coming-out story marked by privilege, vulnerability, and the particular difficulty of queer identity in highly heteronormative environments. Rapp has released solo music as a singer-songwriter, including the EP Everything to Everyone (2023).