Suki Waterhouse

With a weary vocal delivery that comes with an implied frown, Suki Waterhouse’s combination of dingy, lovelorn retro-pop, generous reverb, and sturdy melodic hooks landed her on the Sub Pop label on the strength of self-released singles like “Brutally” (2016) and “Good Looking” (2017). Meanwhile finding steady acting work in film and on television, the singer/songwriter/actor/model made her full-length debut on the label with I Can't Let Go in the first half of 2022. Before the end of the year, the Milk Teeth EP collected early material including “Brutally” and “Good Looking.”
Born in Hammersmith, London, and raised in nearby Chiswick, Alice Suki Waterhouse began modeling at the age of 16 when she was discovered in London by a clothing retailer. She had added several major apparel brands and cover shoots for the international editions of fashion magazines like Vogue and Elle to her résumé by the time she turned 20. Around that time, she landed her first minor film role in 2012′s Pusher, gradually moving up the billing by 2016′s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, where she played one of the Bennet sisters. That year, she also had a cameo in Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie, and her pining acoustic ballad “Brutally” appeared on her own This Rough Magic label.
In 2017, Waterhouse could be seen in the historical miniseries The White Princess and in the title role of the indie film The Girl Who Invented Kissing. She was among the main ensemble cast of the next year’s action-comedy Assassination Nation, and acted increasingly frequently into the next decade, including parts in Woody Allen’s A Rainy Day in New York (2019) and Séance (2021), directed by Blair Witch franchise writer Simon Barrett. All the while, Waterhouse issued periodic self-released singles, such as 2017′s “Good Looking” and 2019′s “Coolest Place in the World,” which collectively garnered tens of millions of streams.
While continuing to work as an actress, Waterhouse signed with Sub Pop Records in 2021, having recorded her debut LP with Grammy nominee Brad Cook (Bon Iver, Snail Mail). The album, I Can't Let Go, followed in April 2022, shortly before Waterhouse co-starred in the Amazon miniseries Daisy Jones & the Six, about a fictional ’70s rock band. A stand-alone single co-written and produced by John Mark Nelson (Taylor Swift, Amy Allen), “Nostalgia,” appeared that September, and in November, Waterhouse issued the EP Milk Teeth, consisting of five early career tracks and new song “Neon Signs.” ~ Marcy Donelson