Inside life of Cruel Intentions star Savannah Lee Smith including connection to music icon

The erstwhile Gossip Girl prima plays vice-president's girl Annie Grover successful Amazon Prime's Cruel Intentions reboot, but what other is determination to cognize astir her beingness off-screen?

Amazon Prime's instrumentality connected the iconic nineties thriller Cruel Intentions lands connected the streaming level contiguous (November 21), with all-eyes connected the caller stars bringing the communicative of deceit and seduction to life.

While the TV reboot promises a 'new chapter', the communicative remains akin to the archetypal movie arsenic it follows 2 manipulative step-siblings who are wrestling for powerfulness implicit their peers astatine school. Sarah Catherine Hook steps into the relation of cruel Queen Bee Caroline Merteuil successful the TV series, portion Zac Burgess stars arsenic her step-brother Lucien Belmont.

Savannah Lee Smith portrays Annie Grover connected the series, the girl of the vice-president. Her quality echoes the relation Reese Witherspoon played successful the 1999 film, Annette Hargrove, who was the girl of a headmaster.

Viewers diving into the bid volition nary uncertainty privation to larn much astir Savannah's beingness off-screen. So what bash we cognize astir the 24-year-old star?

Early beingness and career

Savannah was calved and raised successful Los Angeles, increasing up successful a household of musicians who loved the dependable of jazz. Her mum was a nonrecreational vocalist successful the nineties portion her dada was a screenwriter. Meanwhile her gramps had antecedently played euphony alongside Stevie Wonder.

She didn't kick-start her acting vocation until she was successful precocious school, erstwhile she discovered she enjoyed the "acting part" of theatre much than she did the music. Despite this, she told Wonderland mag she "retains a precise beardown transportation to music" and doesn't "have immoderate plans of abandoning it", creating her ain R&B jazz euphony extracurricular of acting.

The star's breakout relation came successful the caller Gossip Girl reboot which spanned from 2021 to 2023, successful which she starred arsenic mean miss Monet de Haan. It paved the mode to her engagement successful Cruel Intentions arsenic good arsenic the upcoming musical, Something Here.

Her different TV and movie credits see a relation successful the movie Drunk, Driving and 17; Murder astatine the Murder Mystery Party and The Upside of Unrequited. Alongside her blossoming acting career, Savannah harbours ambitions to go a playwright and besides execute connected Broadway.

Love beingness and sexuality

Savannah identifies arsenic bisexual. In an interrogation with Wonderland mag talking astir her Gossip Girl role, she said: "It’s already a imagination to beryllium capable to beryllium a portion of this project, but connected apical of that I get to beryllium a portion of a greater work that I consciousness arsenic a Black, bisexual pistillate successful the media.”

She is unfastened astir her sexuality online and told the New York Post she came retired to her parents arsenic a teen aft recovering from scoliosis surgery. "It conscionable came out," she recounted.

It is unclear whether Savannah is presently dating anyone astatine the moment. She disclosed to the New York Post backmost successful 2021 that her fellow was the archetypal idiosyncratic she called erstwhile she recovered retired she landed the Gossip Girl relation a twelvemonth prior, though she hasn't shared thing publically astir her enigma spouse since then.

Cruel Intentions is present streaming connected Amazon Prime