Halina Reijn, who also directed Bodies, Bodies, Bodies for the production company, has positioned the singer-songwriter at the helm of her upcoming release, Please
Gracie Abrams has a filmography section on Wikipedia now. The singer-songwriter has signed on to make her acting debut in Please, the forthcoming film from Halina Reijn, the filmmaker behind the Nicole Kidman-led Babygirl and the cult favorite Bodies, Bodies, Bodies. Like those films, Please will be distributed by A24.
Abrams comes from a multi-generational family of filmmakers. Her father, J.J. Abrams, is the writer-director behind Mission: Impossible III, Super 8, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and more. Her grandfather, Gerald W. Abrams, is an Emmy Award-nominated producer, while her grandmother, Carol Abrams, was a Peabody Award-winning producer.
Still, Abrams chose the music route. The 26-year-old has received two career Grammy Award nominations, including Best New Artist in 2024 and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance in 2025, a nomination she shared with Taylor Swift. Abrams opened for Swift on the Eras Tour and recently completed a headlining tour that included stops at Madison Square Garden and Red Rocks Amphitheatre.
Last year, while speaking with Cyndi Lauper for Rolling Stone’s Musicians on Musicians series, Abrams explained that she initially kept her musical aspirations secret from her parents. “I was very private about the fact that I was playing music,” she said. “I wanted nothing to do with any of that. I just felt like my body shut down if I was playing or singing something I wrote. And I would hear someone walk by, I would stop.”
A24 is currently something of a home base for musicians looking to put down deeper roots in the film realm. Tyler, the Creator appeared alongside Timothée Chalamet in Marty Supreme, and next month the production company will release The Moment, a mockumentary starring Charli XCX that reimagines the Brat era through the interrogation of pop stardom. A24 also distributed Spike Lee’s Highest to Lowest, which starred ASAP Rocky (he’s also in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You) and featured appearances from Ice Spice and Jensen McRae. Sky Ferreira even provided music for Babygirl.
