Suki Waterhouse is an English model and actress who added indie-pop singer to her resumé when she released her debut single, "Brutally," in 2016. A year later, "
Good Looking" followed and flew under the radar for years until it went viral on TikTok in 2022 after live footage of Waterhouse performing the tune found its way to the platform. Waterhouse reissued the song, along with her other early singles, on her first EP,
Milk Teeth, that same year.
In 2021, Waterhouse signed with Sub Pop Records, the Seattle-based indie label that became famous for being at the forefront of the grunge movement in the '90s with Nirvana and Soundgarden on their roster. That being said, they almost made a huge mistake with Waterhouse when they encouraged her to delete all of her old songs so they could start with a clean slate. Waterhouse's refusal paid off when "Good Looking" took off shortly after.
Waterhouse dropped out of school and began modeling at 16 after being discovered in a clothing store (or pub, according to some sources) in London. She's walked the runway for major fashion houses and designers such as Tommy Hilfiger, Burberry, Balenciaga, Miu Miu, and Alexander Wang.
Waterhouse combined her musical aspirations with her acting career when she took on the role of keyboardist Karen Sirko in the 2023 miniseries Daisy Jones & The Six. Loosely inspired by the behind-the-scenes drama of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours album, the story follows a rock band's rise to fame in 1970s Los Angeles. The singer was a big fan of the 2019 source novel of the same name by Taylor Jenkins Reid and lobbied hard for the role. She even taught herself how to play the piano to seal the deal. During production, which began in the fall of 2021, the cast rehearsed together as a band at the famed Sound City Studios in Los Angeles. Spending hours at the piano every day broadened Waterhouse's songwriting horizons and inspired her to make her own album, I Can't Let Go (2022).
Waterhouse began dating actor Robert Pattinson after meeting at a celebrity game night in Los Angeles in 2018. The couple welcomed a baby girl in 2024; the experience inspired Waterhouse's
Loveland (2026) single "
Back In Love," which is about the postpartum transformation of her relationship with Pattinson.
Waterhouse's romance with Bradley Cooper made headlines in 2013 after the 38-year-old actor was photographed reading Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita, written from the perspective of an older man lusting after a young girl, to the 21-year-old singer at a Parisian park. The couple split in 2015.
Waterhouse has been close friends with Taylor Swift for years. The two were first photographed attending a Kings of Leon concert together in 2016 and Waterhouse ended up performing as an opening act on Swift's Eras Tour at Wembley Stadium in 2024. Two years later, she was a guest at Swift's star-studded wedding to Travis Kelce at Madison Square Garden.
Her real first name is Alice, but she's always gone by her middle name, Suki, a word used to express fondness in Japanese. Sometimes people confuse her for the similarly named character Sookie Stackhouse from the TV show True Blood.
Waterhouse became the face of the Redken hair-product line in 2015, around the time she fooled everyone into thinking she washed her hair with Coca-Cola. The singer got bored during an interview and claimed she revived her limp locks with a soda rinse, which ultimately lost her a gig as a haircare ambassador for an undisclosed brand.
Sub Pop wanted the singer to trim down her 18-track sophomore album,
Memoir Of A Sparklemuffin, but she refused. She was following the advice of alt-rocker Beck of "
Loser" fame, who told her to be "as prolific as possible at the beginning of your career, because that's usually when you make the best stuff."
She has two younger sisters, Madeleine and Imogen, who are both models. Imogen is also an actress, with roles in the TV period dramas The Buccaneers and The Outpost. They also both worked on the music video for Waterhouse's 2025 single "Dream Woman," with Imogen serving as director and Madeleine acting as director of photography. The sisters also have a brother named Charlie, who maintains a private life outside the public eye.
