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Here's everything we know about Lily-Rose Depp, the star of the controversial new show 'The Idol'

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Lily-Rose Depp.Francois Durand/Getty Images
  • Lily-Rose Depp is the 24-year-old daughter of Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis.

  • She became the youngest-ever face of Chanel at age 16, and has appeared on countless magazine covers.

  • She's now starring in "The Idol" as a troubled pop singer who falls under the influence of a cult leader.

By all accounts, Lily-Rose Depp is charming and sweet, and nothing like the ambitous and provacative pop singer Jocelyn she portrays in the upcoming Max drama "The Idol."

But that doesn't mean Depp doesn't find something appealing about the character.

In a recent interview with I-D, Depp called "Idol" "the most meaningful and important project that I've ever done and the thing that I'm the proudest of."

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"Jocelyn is the most wonderfully complex character," she continued. "She's so fascinating. A mystery. After a year of living with that character, I'm still obsessed with her. I just want to keep digging deeper."

The 24-year-old daughter of Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis made her modeling debut as a teen as the face of Chanel, and has since covered multiple magazines. She's starred alongside Timothée Chalamet and Keira Knightley, and is set to appear in "Nosferatu" with Nicholas Hoult next year.

Get to know the actress, model, and notorious nepo baby.

Anjelica Oswald contributed to an earlier version of this story.

She's the eldest daughter of Johnny Depp and French singer Vanessa Paradis.

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The couple had two children.Getty Images/Carlo Allegri

Lily-Rose was born on May 27, 1999. Her younger brother, John III, was born three years later on April 9, 2002.

Depp and Paradis never wed and announced their breakup in June 2012 after 14 years together.

"The last couple years have been a bit bumpy," Depp told Rolling Stone in 2013. "At times, certainly unpleasant, but that's the nature of breakups, I guess, especially when there are kiddies involved."

He also discussed the birth of Lily-Rose in the cover story.

"It really was as if a veil was lifted, and things became clearer, and I went, 'Oh, I f---ing get it now! That's what it's for! That's what it's for, this beautiful little creature that I took part in creating, making,'" the actor said. "As long as you have the opportunity to make your kid smile and laugh, and move it forward."

 

She never graduated high school.

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Lily-Rose attending the Cannes Film Festival in 2016.Andreas Rentz/Getty Images

In 2016, Lily-Rose left her exclusive Los Angeles prep school before completing her senior year.

"[My parents] both left school when they were 15, so they can't really say anything," she told Vogue UK in 2016. "I've never thought of university as my goal. I've always just wanted to work and be independent. I didn't have any incentive to keep doing all that work."

She has followed in her mother's footsteps.

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Depp and her mother Vanessa Paradis.@lilyrose_depp/Instagram

Lily-Rose has consistently used her mother as inspiration. In 2017, she mimicked old photographs of Paradis for a photo shoot with CR Fashion Book.

"Steven Klein had shot these amazing photographs of my mom when she was around my age," Lily-Rose explained. "We shot in front of a mirror with the pictures taped to it. I have a similar grungy look."

Most notably, the young model has followed her mother down the Chanel runway. Paradis became the face of the legendary fashion house at age 19, and she raised her daughter to have the same passion.

Depp still idolizes her mother.

In a recent interview with I-D, she said: "Whenever I see old photos of her, I'm like, 'Ugh. That's what I look like in my dreams.' She'll send me photos of her when she was younger, and say things like, 'We're twins.' And I'm like, 'You're so much prettier than me.' She's so beautiful."

She became the youngest-ever face of Chanel at age 16 and had a close relationship with Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld.

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Lily-Rose Depp and Karl Lagerfeld walk the runway during the Chanel Spring Summer 2017 show.Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images

"I met Karl when I was eight and I had horrible side bangs — like a Donald Trump comb-over," she told Vogue UK in 2015.

"She used to come to the Chanel studio with her mother. She was a very sweet child, but who would have thought she would have such a strong and defined personality this early on?" he told the outlet. "Lily-Rose is a young girl from a new generation with all the qualities of a star."

In 2015, she made her first official appearance for the brand in a casino-themed couture show.

Days later, Lily-Rose was named the newest ambassador of the storied French house and became the face of its Pearl eyewear collection and its Chanel No. 5 perfume.

She was named a rising star in the fashion industry at 18.

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She was interviewed by Natalie Portman for her CR Fashion Book cover story.@lilyrose_depp/Instagram

In addition to her role as the face of Chanel, Depp's also modeled for a slew of magazines. Since making her debut in Australian magazine Oyster in April 2015, she has appeared on the covers of LOVE magazineVogue France, ELLE France, Vogue UKCR Fashion BookVogue Japan, and Vogue Russia.

At 18 years old, Lily-Rose was named to the Business of Fashion 500, the "definitive professional index of the people shaping the $2.4 trillion fashion industry," according to the publication's website.

"Lily-Rose Depp is currently the youngest Chanel brand ambassador to front global campaigns for the French house, acting as the most visible conduit between the French fashion house and the Gen Z consumer," her entry reads.