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Charlotte Lawrence was raised in a TV home, but she always wanted to be a musician. “Neither of my parents sang or played any instruments, and my mom tells me stories of me being 2, 3 years old and singing every sentence,” Lawrence says. “She would be like, ‘How do you know even to go there and sing a harmony? How do you know how to find that note?’”

Lawrence, 25, grew up in Los Angeles with her father, Bill Lawrence, a TV producer who co-created Scrubs and Shrinking, and her mother, Christa Miller, an actress who featured on both of those shows. Lawrence began putting out music as a teenager. She tried to be a pop princess, but it just didn’t feel right. “I didn’t really even know how to begin to find my own sound or even if that was a thing I needed to do,” she says. As she got older, she says, “I dove in to find my own sound and identity and make music I loved and believed in.” The result was her autobiographical debut album, Somewhere, released last July.

After touring last summer, she was on the road as support for indie star Sombr in early 2026 and was hoping to release a second album this year. She’s acting, too, on season 2 of Bad Monkey, the Apple TV crime comedy created by her father and starring Lawrence as a model at war with her stepmother. “I just really love all of it,” she says. “I’m going to work my ass off and try and be the best I can ever fucking possibly be at everything I try to do.”

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How do you feel like your career has changed since putting out your album?

It felt like an extension of my diary, my heart, what I imagined myself as, and who I am. By the time I put out Somewhere, I had years of soul searching and experimenting. I finally put something out that felt authentic and completely me and my sound.

How do you decide how personal you want to be in your lyrics?

One of the beauties of songwriting is that it is a therapy. It’s the way people write in their journals or confide in a friend. If I’m going through something and I hold it in, 9 out of 10 times, I don’t work it out. If I write a song about it and explore how things make me feel, I can move through it. I am just bashfully unfiltered. When I’m writing, I have no shield over or limitations on myself. Then I decide later on, once the song is finished, if I feel comfortable enough putting it out.

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What do you do to prepare for going on tour?

I’m going to start dreaming about killing it every night so I can manifest that shit. I’m going to start running on the treadmill and singing through my set. I quit cigarettes for my health, and so that I don’t die, but also because I want to be able to sing and kill it every single night with no limitations. They’re fantastic and so horrible for you. But God, I love and miss them.

Jacket, shirt, pants, bow tie, Balenciaga. Earrings, ring, Cartier.Cameron McCoolWhy did you decide to act in Bad Monkey?

I’ve always loved acting. I grew up around it. As a snotty, independent kid, I was like, “I want to figure out my own thing and lean into it.” But I grew up and took an acting class, and got that same joy and calmness and just pure ecstasy from acting that I did from music. I’m young, I can stay up all night and wake up early and still be fine. Why not just do everything right now? I was born with so many advantages. I have parents that are in the industry and I’m as nepo as it gets. I know how lucky I am and how awesome it is that I have all these things. I’d be doing myself a disservice if I didn’t try to do everything I wanted to do. And I really am.

What goals are you working toward?

I want to perform for thousands and thousands of people, and I want to win a Grammy one day, and I want to perform at the Hollywood Bowl, and I want to make a song so good that it makes everyone cry when they hear it.

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A version of this story appears in the April issue of ELLE.

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