America's Got Talent child star Grace VanderWaal, 20, looks unrecognizable now as she hits glitzy movie premiere
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Grace VanderWaal was completely unrecognizable while attending the Megalopolis premiere at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month.
Eight years after winning season 11 of America's Got Talent, the singer, who is now 20, showed off her new look while walking the red carpet of Francis Ford Coppola's $100M-budget epic, in which she portrays pop star Vesta Sweetwater.
While the former child star was previously known for her cute bob and bangs, she has since underwent a glamorous and more edgy makeover, which includes dyeing her hair platinum blonde.
For the event, the Call It What You Want hitmaker wore a custom Liam Wilson Mackenzie couture corset and a vintage Cinema By Panos Zinas silk velvet skirt.
As she posed for pictures, VanderWaal displayed her expensive tattoo collection, which consisted of a number of various designs, including a dragonfly on her wrist.
Grace VanderWaal was completely unrecognizable while attending the Megalopolis premiere at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month; seen in 2016
Other tattoos include a butterfly, a praying mantis surrounded by flowers, a star and an elephant.
Over the years, VanderWaal's style has certainty evolved since she first launched to stardom on AGT, where Simon Cowell declared she would become 'the next Taylor Swift.'
Back in 2019, she reflected on her more mature look during an interview with Who What Wear.
'I’ve always sort of known what I like and what I want to wear. Honestly, the best way my style has evolved since then has to do with the people around me getting to know that and letting me have more freedom,' she said.
The musician continued: 'I also love that I’m getting older because all my life, I’ve always loved high fashion and editorial stuff, but it used to be kind of weird for me to wear it. So I’m really happy that I get to experiment with that a little bit now.'
Additionally, she revealed she is 'really drawn to funky stuff' and thinks the 'whole alien-esque aesthetic' is beautiful.
'I just want to look like an alien. Always alien vibes with me. But I pretty much go for whatever I feel fire in. It doesn’t even matter what it looks like; it matters how I feel in it. If my clothes change the way I walk, then I know I am in something perfect,' the actress explained.
She also noted Audrey Hepburn and Lily-Rose Depp are her style icons.
Eight years after winning season 11 of America's Got Talent, the singer, who is now 20, showed off her new look while walking the red carpet of her new film, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, in which she portrays pop star Vesta Sweetwater (pictured this month)
While the former child star was previously known for her cute bob and bangs, she has since underwent a glamorous and more edgy makeover, which includes dyeing her hair platinum blonde
For the event, the Call It What You Want hitmaker wore a custom Liam Wilson Mackenzie couture corset and a vintage Cinema By Panos Zinas silk velvet skirt
As for where she shops for everyday clothes, VanderWaal answered: 'Thrift shops. Princess Polly is a great online store. And every time I’m in L.A., I go to American Vintage.'
She began her musical career performing covers to her favorite songs on YouTube in her hometown of Suffern, New York.
VanderWaal rose to fame in 2016 when she was just 12 years old, and has since gone on to release her debut EP Perfectly Imperfect as well as first full-length studio album, Just the Beginning (2017) and second EP, Letters Vol. 1, in 2019.
In 2020, she made her acting debut as Susan 'Stargirl' Caraway in the Disney+ musical drama film Stargirl, followed by its 2022 sequel Hollywood Stargirl.
VanderWaal rose to fame in 2016 when she was just 12 years old, and has since gone on to release her debut EP Perfectly Imperfect as well as first full-length studio album, Just the Beginning (2017) and second EP, Letters Vol. 1, in 2019; seen in 2024
Additionally, she's received two Radio Disney Music Awards, a Teen Choice Award, the 2017 Billboard Women in Music Rising Star Award and 2018 MTV Europe Music Award for Best Push Act.
Most recently, VanderWaal released a track, called Call It What You Want, in August 2024.
Her film, Megalopolis, in which she stars alongside Shia LaBeouf, Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Fishburne, Jon Voight, Forest Whitaker, Aubrey Plaza, Adam Driver, comes out later this month.
In 2020, she made her acting debut as Susan 'Stargirl' Caraway in the Disney+ musical drama film Stargirl, followed by its 2022 sequel Hollywood Stargirl (seen in 2019)
The plot of Megalopolis is described as 'an architect wanting to rebuild New York City as a utopia following a devastating disaster,' but the the 82-year-old filmmaker calls his dream project 'a love story.'
Coppola - who's wanted to make Megalopolis since 1982 - sold a piece of his wine empire in order to self-finance the movie.
