So apparently this is a thing people search for a lot. Renee Rapp’s height. Not her albums, not her Broadway run, just… how tall she is. Makes sense in a way, she’s got that big, take-up-the-room presence on stage, so people assume she must be six feet tall or something close to it.
She’s not. She’s 5’9″.
Normal-ish height, nothing wild. But there’s a decent amount of confusion online about the exact number, so let’s actually sort through it.
Quick Facts
| Detail | Info |
| Height | 5’9″ (170 cm) |
| Full name | Renee Jane Rapp |
| Born | January 10, 2000 |
| Birthplace | Huntersville, North Carolina |
| Known for | Regina George in Mean Girls, Leighton Murray in The Sex Lives of College Girls |
| Music | Snow Angel (2023), Bite Me (2025) |
| Current project | The Morning Show, Season 5 |
What IMDb (and Everyone Else) Says
IMDb has her listed at 5 feet 9 inches. In centimeters that’s 175. A handful of other celeb-tracking sites land on the same figure, which, weirdly, doesn’t happen that often with this kind of info. Usually you’ll find three sites with three different numbers.
There’s one outlier that says 5’7″. I genuinely don’t know where that came from. Doesn’t match anything else, doesn’t show up in any interview or verified bio. My guess, somebody fat-fingered a number once and it got copy-pasted across a few low-effort sites until it looked legit.
| Unit | Measurement |
| Feet/Inches | 5’9″ |
| Centimeters | 175 cm |
| Meters | 1.75 m |
| Inches total | 68 in |
Small thing worth mentioning. If you punch 170 cm into a converter you get 5.577 feet, which rounds to 5’7″, not 5’6″. So any page that lists 170 cm right next to “5’6″” made a rounding error somewhere along the way. It happens more than you’d think with these conversion tables.
Why Nobody Can Agree On This
Celebrity height info travels weird. Somebody posts a number, a dozen sites scrape it without checking, and eventually a five-year-old typo reads like fact. It’s basically the same problem as those “this actor is actually 5’4″ in real life” Reddit threads. Nobody’s measuring anyone with a tape measure.
A couple things that mess with the number specifically for Rapp:
- Agency profiles sometimes round up or use self-reported figures instead of an actual measurement
- Shoes, socks, posture, time of day, all of it shifts things by half an inch or more
- Articles get recycled for years and nobody bothers fact-checking the old number before reposting
Point is, when most decent sources land on the same figure, that’s your answer. Here it’s 5’7″, pretty clearly.
Stacked Up Against Other Celebrities
This part’s fun, not gonna lie. Here’s roughly how she compares:
| Celebrity | Height | Vs. Rapp |
| Ariana Grande | 5’0″ | 9″ shorter |
| Selena Gomez | 5’5″ | 4″ shorter |
| Emma Stone | 5’6″ | 3″ shorter |
| Zendaya | 5’10” | 1″ taller |
| Taylor Swift | 5’11” | 2″ taller |
Her Mean Girls costar Angourie Rice is 5’3″, so on set Rapp’s got a few inches on her. Which, if you think about it, actually fits. Regina George is written to feel like she’s looking down on the entire school, literally helps that the actress playing her has the height for it.
Does It Even Matter for Casting?
A little. More than you’d guess, actually. Directors think about blocking constantly, who stands where, who’s in frame, whether someone disappears next to a taller costar. None of that’s an accident.
5’9″ lands in a pretty flexible zone. Tall enough to read as commanding under stage lights, not so tall that camera work gets complicated. Probably part of why moving from the ensemble into the lead role wasn’t a huge stretch logistically.
But come on, nobody leaves a Renee Rapp concert talking about her height. It’s the voice. It’s the way she’ll just say something blunt and unfiltered in an interview that ends up as a headline two days later. A lot of fans swear she reads taller on camera than 5’9″, and that’s really just stage presence doing the work, not actual inches.
Background, In Case You Need It
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Born January 10, 2000, Huntersville, North Carolina. Trained at Northwest School of the Arts before any of this took off. Won the Jimmy Award back in 2018, basically the high school version of the Tonys. Took over Regina George on Broadway in 2019, reprised it for the 2024 movie.
Also plays Leighton Murray on HBO Max’s The Sex Lives of College Girls. Music-wise, Snow Angel dropped in 2023, Bite Me followed in 2025. She’s now part of The Morning Show Season 5 with Reese Witherspoon, which is a noticeably bigger swing than where she started.
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Quick Questions People Keep Asking
How tall is Renee Rapp, actually?
5’9″, 175 cm. That’s what IMDb says and what most credible sites repeat.
Why does one site say 5’7″?
No real answer here. Looks like an error that spread to a couple of low-quality pages and never got corrected.
Is she taller than average?
Yeah, by a few inches. Average American woman is around 5’4″.
Does height actually change what roles she lands?
A bit, not dramatically. Gives directors a little more room with staging, that’s roughly it.
Has she confirmed it herself anywhere?
Not that’s been documented. It’s all database and casting-record info, not a quote from her.
Anyway, Bottom Line
5’9″ is the answer. It’s backed by IMDb, repeated across other reliable sites, and the math on the conversions actually holds up. The 5’7″ thing floating around is almost certainly just an old mistake nobody fixed.
None of that’s really why people care about her though. They’re here for the voice, the bluntness in interviews, the way she’s somehow made playing Regina George feel like her own thing instead of a copy of Rachel McAdams. The height’s just a fun fact you bring up once and forget.
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