Lily-Rose Depp has said her childhood was nothing like that of her The Idol characters' (Picture: HBO/ Getty)

Lily-Rose Depp has insisted her childhood growing up with famous parentswas nothing like her The Idol character’s upbringing.

The actress, 24, is the daughter of American actor, producer, and musician Johnny Depp and French singer, actress and model Vanessa Paradis, who also share a son, Jack, together.

When she was 14 Lily-Rose's parents separated and two years later, she began her acting career with a minor role in the 2014 film Tusk.

She went on to pursue a modelling career, as well as starring in other screen projects including The Dance, Planetarium and The King, with her most recent role in Euphoria creator Sam Levinson’s The Idol, in which she stars alongside Abel Tesfaye (The Weeknd).

In the series she plays Jocelyn, an up-and-coming young pop idol dating the leader of a modern-day cult.

Despite the parallels of the two young womenliving life in the public eye, Lily-Rose has said the similarities end there.

The actress plays aspiring pop idol Jocelyn in the new series (Picture: HBO)

‘The backstory that we thought about a lot for Jocelyn is that she's somebody who's been working basically since she could talk,’ she said.

‘She was a child actress, she had a mother who was really pushy in that way and really kind of bred her to be this trained performer, and that was her upbringing.

‘That was certainly not mine,’ she added when speaking to EW.

Lily with her dad, actor Johnny Depp (Picture: Lily-Rose Depp/ Instagram)

The actress then added that her parents ‘definitely did their best to give my brother and I the most “normal” childhood that we could have’.

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‘Obviously, still not totally normal, but a sense of normalcy at least, and a sense of childhood and freedom and play and everything.

‘So our childhoods are quite different.’

However, she did add that her experiences had allowed her to gain a better understanding of her character.

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‘Of course, experiencing this industry from a young age, there's obviously pieces of that that help me understand maybe Jocelyn's perspective a little bit better, but still, definitely coming from different places.’

Earlier this year Lily-Rose spoke about herawareness of the privilege she had growing upwith famous parents amid the nepo baby debate.

‘I’m super aware of the fact that my childhood did not look like everybody’s. But at the same time, it’s all that I know, so I have had to find comfort in it somehow,’ she told i-D Magazine.

She added that she had been lucky to have been ‘surrounded by people who value normalcy’.

The Idol is now streaming on NOW and Sky Atlantic.

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