Suki Waterhouse

Suki Waterhouse (born Alice Suki Waterhouse, January 5, 1992) is an English singer-songwriter, actress and model from Hammersmith, London, now based in Los Angeles. Discovered as a teenage model, she built a first career fronting campaigns for Burberry and Marks & Spencer and appearing in films including The Divergent Series: Insurgent and Amazon's Daisy Jones & the Six, before her music career, which she had pursued quietly for years, broke through when a 2017 song, "Good Looking," went viral on TikTok in 2022 and eventually went Platinum in the United States. She has since released two albums on Sub Pop Records, opened for Taylor Swift's Eras Tour at London's Wembley Stadium, and signed to Island Records in 2025 for her third album, Loveland.

Early Life, Modeling and Acting

Waterhouse was born in Hammersmith and raised in Chiswick, west London. Her mother, Elizabeth, is a cancer care nurse and her father, Norman Waterhouse, is a plastic surgeon who co-founded Facing the World, a charity providing reconstructive surgery for children with facial disfigurements. She has a brother, Charlie, and two younger sisters: Madeleine, a model, and Imogen Waterhouse, a model and actress. Suki Waterhouse was discovered as a model at 16 in a London high-street store and went on to walk runway for Burberry, Alexander Wang and Balenciaga, appear on the covers of British, Korean, Thai, Taiwanese and Turkish Vogue, and model lingerie for Marks & Spencer at 19. In 2017 she was named the "Mercier Muse" for Laura Mercier.

Her acting career began with a small role in Pusher (2012) and grew through Love, Rosie (2014), The Divergent Series: Insurgent (2015), Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016), The Bad Batch (2016), Assassination Nation (2018), Billionaire Boys Club (2018) and Detective Pikachu (2019), alongside the Starz miniseries The White Princess (2017), in which she played Cecily of York. Her highest-profile acting role arrived in 2023 with Amazon Prime's Daisy Jones & the Six, an adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid's novel about a fictional 1970s rock band, in which Waterhouse played keyboardist Karen Sirko. Showrunner Scott Neustadter made the Karen character British specifically to, in his words, "hammer home Karen's commitment to music and living a life dedicated to being in a great rock band," a decision that dovetailed with Waterhouse's own real-life musical ambitions. She also appeared in Dalíland (2022) and All the Devils Are Here (2025).

Beyond acting and music, Waterhouse co-founded the accessories brand Pop & Suki in September 2016 with Poppy Jamie and CEO Leo Seigal. The line's "Camera Bag" was dubbed "The Bag Every It Girl Owns" by Who What Wear and has been worn by Jessica Alba, Lady Gaga, Cara Delevingne and Emily Ratajkowski; the brand has also designed suitcases for the travel company Away. Waterhouse has additionally exhibited photography at London's Eb and Flow gallery.

The Come-Up: I Can’t Let Go

Waterhouse's recording career began years before her commercial breakthrough. She independently released her debut single, "Brutally," in November 2016, followed by "Good Looking" in 2017 and "Johanna" in 2019, songs she wrote and released steadily over roughly five years before signing to a label. She has said it took landing the role of Karen Sirko in Daisy Jones & the Six to finally feel emboldened enough to record a full album.

In October 2021, Sub Pop Records, the storied Seattle indie label that first signed Nirvana and is now also home to Beach House and Sleater-Kinney, announced it had signed Waterhouse and would release her debut album the following year, alongside two new tracks, "Moves" and "My Mind." I Can’t Let Go was produced largely by Grammy-nominated producer Brad Cook, known for his work with Bon Iver, The War on Drugs, Waxahatchee and Snail Mail, and was released on May 6, 2022. The ten-track album, featuring "Moves," "Melrose Meltdown," "Devil I Know," "Wild Side," "My Mind," "Bullshit on the Internet" and "Blessed," earned Waterhouse spots on both NPR's and Atwood Magazine's 2022 "Artist to Watch" lists. Atwood Magazine wrote that the record "calls to mind the haze of southern California and the dimly lit jazz clubs of London, tinged with lyrical and sonic imagery that at once evokes Lana Del Rey and Waxahatchee." On the UK charts, the album peaked at No. 47 on the UK Independent Albums chart.

To support the record, Waterhouse played headline club dates in May and June 2022 before joining Father John Misty as main support across a North American tour running from July 31 (Red Rocks Amphitheatre) through October 8, 2022, hitting venues including Radio City Music Hall, the Ryman Auditorium and the Chicago Theatre. In November 2022, six months after the debut LP, she released the Milk Teeth EP, a six-track compilation gathering earlier singles, "Valentine," "Good Looking," "Johanna," "Coolest Place in the World" and "Brutally," alongside one new song, "Neon Signs."

Memoir of a Sparklemuffin

Waterhouse's second studio album, Memoir of a Sparklemuffin, was released on September 13, 2024 through Sub Pop, with Eli Hirsch serving as executive producer alongside co-producers Jonathan Rado (known for work with Beyoncé), Brad Cook, Greg Gonzalez of Cigarettes After Sex, Rick Nowels (James Blake, Lana Del Rey) and her longtime songwriting partners Natalie Findlay and Jules Apollinaire of the band Ttrruuces. Structured as an 18-track double album running just under 54 minutes, the record takes its title from the "sparklemuffin," a small, colorful species of Australian peacock jumping spider (Maratus jactatus) Waterhouse encountered while browsing online late at night; she has described the spider's metamorphosis as a metaphor for her own personal and career transformation. The album was largely written while she was pregnant. Key tracks include "Gateway Drug," "Supersad," "Blackout Drunk," "My Fun," "Model, Actress, Whatever," "To Get You," "OMG" and "To Love."

The album received generally favorable reviews, holding a Metacritic score of 75/100 across six reviews. Emily Savage of The Line of Best Fit wrote that the record offers an intimate look into Waterhouse's "thoughts and emotions" at her "most vulnerable and empowered," comparing her stylings to Lana Del Rey and Wolf Alice. AllMusic's Marcy Donelson likened it to the "most extravagant works" of Lana Del Rey and Angel Olsen. Not every review was glowing: the Johns Hopkins News-Letter called it "a failed reinvention," and student outlet PLPulse titled its review "Memoir of a Flop" while still praising individual tracks like "Supersad" and "Blackout Drunk" for breaking from Waterhouse's earlier ballad-heavy mold. Commercially, the album reached No. 24 on the Billboard US Top Album Sales chart, No. 45 on the US Independent Albums chart, and No. 39 (Sales) and No. 14 (Independent Albums) in the UK. A deluxe edition, adding 12 tracks including "Dream Woman," "On This Love" and several live cuts recorded at Brooklyn Paramount and BBC Maida Vale, followed on June 13, 2025.

Loveland and the Island Records Move

In August 2025, Waterhouse signed to Island Records, a Universal Music Group label whose roster includes Chelsea Cutler, after two albums on Sub Pop. Her first release under the new deal, "Back in Love," written with Natalie Findlay and Jules Apollinaire, arrived March 27, 2026. On April 21, 2026, Waterhouse announced her third studio album, Loveland, released July 10, 2026 via Island Records, comprising 14 tracks co-written with collaborators including Amy Allen, Aaron Dessner of The National, and Dan Wilson, alongside Jules Apollinaire and Natalie Findlay. Additional singles "Tiny Raisin" (April 24, 2026) and "When I Get Drunk (I Want You Boy)" (June 12, 2026) preceded the LP; Billboard gave "Tiny Raisin" a "Best New Music" nod, and Wonderland and Harper's Bazaar praised the rollout. In a Variety cover feature, Waterhouse said Loveland is sonically inspired by the Stone Roses, PJ Harvey and the Replacements, and explores nostalgia for her younger, wilder years set against her new life as a mother.

Sonic Identity

Critics have consistently placed Waterhouse's music at the intersection of dream pop, indie rock and retro-leaning Americana, with Lana Del Rey serving as the most frequent comparison point across her catalog. Sub Pop's own promotional materials described her early work as "smoky, cinematic, guitar-rock," while NPR compared her vocal style to Cocteau Twins' Elizabeth Fraser and Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval, noting her early singles evoked "the Paisley Underground sound of Mazzy Star" and the girl-group revivalism of The Concretes and Camera Obscura.

I Can’t Let Go leaned toward sweeping Americana, with lyrics landing, as one outlet put it, "somewhere between Taylor Swift's simplicity and Del Rey's fatalism." A live review from WXPN of her early-2023 tour highlighted an eclectic range of reference points within a single set: the "hushed and dreamy" opener "Devil I Know," the Radiohead-esque solitary keys of "Coolest Place in the World," a cover of Mazzy Star's "Fade Into You," touches of Belle & Sebastian and Japanese Breakfast on "Johanna," and a Twin Peaks Roadhouse feel on "My Mind."

By Memoir of a Sparklemuffin, reviewers described a more confident, if sprawling, dream-pop identity. The Indiependent called it "a stunning pop-rock record, showcasing the singer's deserved confidence in her signature dream-pop sound," noting an "indie-rock edge" in her live vocal delivery. The Associated Press wrote the album "slides comfortably between '60s pop, '70s hippie jams, '90s alternative and contemporary alt-rock," pointing to "Faded" as drifting into "dreampop territory" and "Nonchalant" evoking The Sundays' jangle-pop. Northern Transmissions summarized her overall sound as "dream pop, with inflections of LA garage rock like Best Coast," while other writers drew lines to Phoebe Bridgers, Wolf Alice, Angel Olsen and Magdalena Bay/Caroline Polachek-style electronic flourishes on upbeat cuts like "Blackout Drunk." Early Loveland coverage suggests continued evolution toward rockier, more '90s British-influenced territory.

"Good Looking" and the TikTok Resurrection

"Good Looking" was originally released on October 20, 2017 as the first single from what would become the Milk Teeth EP, produced by Jules Apollinaire. The track initially made only a modest commercial impact. Everything changed in 2022, when a sped-up version of the song went viral on TikTok, appearing across more than 300,000 videos on the platform and introducing Waterhouse's music to a mass audience for the first time. Waterhouse recalled: "Good Looking is a song I wrote about six years ago, and I never expected it to have a moment on TikTok... I started noticing that it was having a viral moment, and there wasn't really a particular trend. There were a bunch of different trends, which was so cool to see," she told Stingray.

The resurgence translated into hard numbers. It peaked at No. 1 on Spotify's US Viral Chart and was accumulating more than 700,000 streams per day across Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music as of an October 2022 update. On official UK charts, "Good Looking" eventually reached No. 92 on the UK Singles Sales chart, No. 18 on the UK Independent Singles chart, No. 63 in Ireland, and No. 14 on the US Rock Airplay chart. It earned Gold certification from the BPI (UK), 2× Platinum from Music Canada, Platinum from Recorded Music NZ, and, as of April 30, 2024, Platinum status from the RIAA in the United States. As of mid-2026, "Good Looking" remains by far Waterhouse's most-streamed song, with more than 751 million Spotify streams out of roughly 1.3 billion cumulative streams across her entire catalog, and continues to generate over 700,000 streams per day, a striking long tail nearly a decade after its original release. Her second most-streamed track, "Moves," trails at roughly 105 million streams. Elsewhere on the charts, "Supersad" (2024) reached No. 11 on the US Adult Alternative Airplay (AAA) chart, and "Back in Love" (2026) reached No. 13 on the same chart.

Touring: Eras Tour and Beyond

Waterhouse's touring history began with headline club dates in 2022 before landing main support on Father John Misty's North American tour that summer and fall. In 2023, she played a summer/fall US festival run including Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza and the Ohana Festival, alongside a shared-bill history and a 2023 collaborative single, "Every Day's a Lesson in Humility," with Belle and Sebastian.

The single biggest moment of her touring career came on August 17, 2024, when Waterhouse opened for Taylor Swift's record-breaking Eras Tour at Wembley Stadium in London, her hometown, as part of a run of additional London dates that also featured RAYE, Maisie Peters, Holly Humberstone and Sofia Isella on other nights, alongside the tour's regular openers Paramore. Waterhouse had performed at Coachella just months earlier, and reporting indicates she received the call to join the Eras Tour after that Coachella set impressed organizers. She performed "Moves," "Good Looking," "My Fun" and "To Love." In a memorable crossover moment, Paramore's Hayley Williams gave the crowd a Twilight-referencing tribute to Waterhouse's partner Robert Pattinson, star of the Twilight franchise, quoting Edward Cullen's line "This is the skin of a killer, Bella" before launching into Paramore's "Decode," from the original Twilight soundtrack. Waterhouse wore a custom peach Chloé gown by designer Chemena Kamali for the performance, styled by Rob Zangardi and Cassy Meier, widely covered by fashion press as evoking both a Folklore-era aesthetic and her Daisy Jones & the Six character Karen Sirko. Waterhouse called the opportunity "a dream come true that I never want to wake up from," and later told SiriusXM she had to keep the booking a closely guarded secret because "every single person that I told" wanted concert tickets.

The following month, Waterhouse launched her own headlining "Sparklemuffin Tour" in support of her new album, kicking off September 28, 2024 in Denver and running through December 21, 2024 across roughly two dozen North American cities including Los Angeles' Greek Theatre, Brooklyn Paramount, Nashville's Ryman Auditorium and Chicago's Salt Shed. 303 Magazine described a stage "resembling a 1950s movie soundstage wrapped in a dreamy wilderness scene" and called her live show "a fascinating blend of melodrama and a laid-back rock star attitude."

In 2025, Waterhouse completed a three-night residency at LA's Roxy Theatre (March 3–5), then announced a UK/EU headline and festival run for August 2025 spanning Frequency Festival (Austria), Lowlands (Netherlands), Rock en Seine (Paris), Leeds and Reading Festivals, and her largest-ever London headline show at the O2 Forum Kentish Town. That August, she also began serving as opening act for the North American leg of Icelandic-Chinese singer Laufey's "A Matter of Time" tour. Her touring resumed in July 2026 in support of Loveland, with a "Loveland Tour" running July through October 2026 and featuring dates at Lollapalooza, Hinterland Music Festival, Austin City Limits, All Things Go, Hollywood Forever Cemetery and Radio City Music Hall.

Collaborators

Waterhouse's musical career has been shaped by a consistent core of producers and co-writers even as her sound has evolved across three albums.

• Brad Cook, the Grammy-nominated producer behind Bon Iver, The War on Drugs, Waxahatchee, Snail Mail and Mavis Staples, produced most of I Can’t Let Go and contributed to Memoir of a Sparklemuffin tracks including "Supersad," "Big Love" and "Think Twice."
• Natalie Findlay and Jules Apollinaire, of the band Ttrruuces, are Waterhouse's longest-running songwriting partnership, co-writing "Good Looking" and "OMG," and continuing into her Island Records era with "Back in Love," "Dream Woman" and other tracks. Apollinaire has also produced numerous Memoir of a Sparklemuffin tracks including "My Fun," "Lullaby," "OMG" and "To Love."
• Eli Hirsch served as executive producer of Memoir of a Sparklemuffin, credited as producer or co-producer on the majority of the album's 18 standard tracks.
• Jonathan Rado, who has worked with Beyoncé, co-produced the Memoir of a Sparklemuffin track "To Get You."
• Greg Gonzalez of Cigarettes After Sex and Rick Nowels, known for work with James Blake and Lana Del Rey, co-produced tracks on Memoir of a Sparklemuffin; Nowels is also credited as a composer/lyricist on "Legendary."
• Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields is a featured performer on the live deluxe-edition track "Yeah! Oh, Yeah!," recorded at Brooklyn Paramount.
• Ashe is featured on the 2024 non-album single "Pushing Daisies."
• Belle and Sebastian collaborated with Waterhouse on the 2023 single "Every Day's a Lesson in Humility."
• Amy Allen, Aaron Dessner of The National/Big Red Machine, and Dan Wilson are co-writers on Loveland (2026), representing a notable expansion of her collaborator roster toward mainstream pop songwriting and production circles as part of her Island Records signing.
• Jordan Firstman, the comedian and actor, featured Waterhouse on a guest vocal for "Purposely Relapsing for Attention" from his 2025 concept album Secrets (Capitol Records), alongside other guests including Rufus Wainwright, Julia Fox and Rachel Sennott.

Label and Team

Waterhouse's recording career has run through two label homes to date. She signed to Sub Pop Records, the Seattle indie institution that signed Nirvana in the late 1980s and now also houses Beach House, Sleater-Kinney and Father John Misty, from October 2021 through her August 2025 move to Island Records, releasing I Can’t Let Go (2022), the Milk Teeth EP (2022), and Memoir of a Sparklemuffin (2024, plus its 2025 deluxe edition) under that deal. In August 2025, she signed with Island Records, a Universal Music Group label whose roster includes Sabrina Carpenter, Chelsea Cutler and Olivia Dean, marking her graduation to major-label pop infrastructure for her third album cycle. For touring and live representation, Waterhouse is affiliated with Red Light Management. For acting representation, she is signed to Creative Artists Agency (CAA) in Los Angeles.

Personal Life

Waterhouse has been in a relationship with actor Robert Pattinson, best known for the Twilight film saga, since around July 2018, after the pair met while playing Werewolf at a star-studded game night in Los Angeles. Before Pattinson, she dated musicians Luke Pritchard of The Kooks (2011) and Miles Kane of the Arctic Monkeys/Last Shadow Puppets circle (2012–2013), and actors Bradley Cooper (2013–2015) and Diego Luna (2015–2017). Waterhouse revealed she was pregnant while performing at Mexico's Corona Capital festival in November 2023, and the couple became engaged shortly after; their daughter was born in March 2024. Unverified reports via the gossip account Deuxmoi, picked up by outlets including the Daily Mail, suggested the couple secretly married at a Caribbean resort on New Year's Eve 2024 going into January 2025, though neither Waterhouse nor Pattinson has publicly confirmed a wedding. The family lives in Los Angeles.

Just weeks postpartum, Waterhouse performed at Coachella in April 2024, revealing on stage that her newborn was a girl, and covering Oasis's "Don't Look Back in Anger." In July 2025, she disclosed she had been hospitalized six months earlier for a hernia caused by wearing overly tight stage pants during the Sparklemuffin Tour, a story that generated wide entertainment-press pickup. She returned to the Met Gala red carpet in May 2025 for the first time since becoming a mother, wearing a backless Michael Kors gown. Waterhouse's charitable involvement includes Facing the World, the reconstructive-surgery charity co-founded in part by her father.

Timeline

Frequently Asked

Is "Coachella Blue" a Suki Waterhouse album?

No album by that title exists in her catalog. Waterhouse performed live at Coachella in April 2024, weeks after giving birth, ahead of the September 2024 release of her actual second album, Memoir of a Sparklemuffin.

Did "Good Looking" chart when it was first released in 2017?

It made only a modest commercial impact on release. Its viral moment came five years later, in 2022, when a sped-up version spread across TikTok and drove it to No. 1 on Spotify's US Viral Chart and eventual Platinum certification in the US, UK, Canada and New Zealand.

Are Suki Waterhouse and Robert Pattinson married?

Reports of a secret Caribbean wedding on New Year's Eve 2024 into January 2025 originated with the gossip account Deuxmoi and were picked up by outlets including the Daily Mail. Neither Waterhouse nor Pattinson has publicly confirmed a marriage.

How did Waterhouse end up opening for Taylor Swift's Eras Tour?

She opened at Wembley Stadium in London on August 17, 2024, alongside regular openers Paramore and other guest openers including RAYE, Maisie Peters, Holly Humberstone and Sofia Isella on different nights. Reporting indicates the booking followed her well-received Coachella set earlier that year.

What labels has Waterhouse recorded for?

She released her first two albums, I Can’t Let Go (2022) and Memoir of a Sparklemuffin (2024), through Sub Pop Records before signing to Island Records in August 2025 for her third album, Loveland (2026).

Discography

Further reading on The Ring covers other artists in Waterhouse's orbit of producers and labelmates, including Amy Allen, a co-writer on Loveland, and Chelsea Cutler, a fellow Island Records artist.