As a teenager, who dont know Gossip Girl ? The Incredible TV series which
just ended their 6th Seasson by last year, and who dont know Serena Van der
Woodsen ? One of the two girls star in those TV series is Blake Lively.
Now, im gonna review her profile.
Full Name : Blake Christina Lively
Date of Birth: June, 25th 1987
Place of Birth: Tarzana, California, USA.
Height: 5' 10" (1,78 m)
Occupation: Actress and model since 1998
Trade Mark: beauty mark underneath right eye, long blonde hair and blue eyes, husky voice.
Early Life
Blake Lively was born in a showbiz family in California and quickly
followed her parents' and siblings' steps. daughter of actors Elaine
Lively (née McAlpin) and Ernie Lively (born Ernest W. Brown).She was
raised as a Southern Baptist She is the youngest of five
children: she has an older brother Eric, two
half-sisters, Lori and Robyn,and a
half-brother, Jason. Both of her parents and all of her siblings are, or
have been, in the entertainment industry. During Lively's childhood, her
parents took her with them to acting classes that they taught because they did
not want to leave her with a babysitter. Lively said that watching her
parents teach acting classes helped her learn the "drills" of acting
and gain confidence as she got older.
Career
Lively began her acting career at
age 11, Her first role was "Trixie, the Tooth Fairy" in the
1998 movie Sandman (1998), directed
by her dad, Ernie Lively. Her big break came along a few years later, though. Blake
was up to finish high school when she got the co-starring role of
"Bridget" in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants in 2005.
In 2006, she co-starred with Justin Long in Accepted,
and Lively had minor roles in the horror film, Simon Says. While Accepted was not well received by
critics, Lively's performance was, earning her a 'Breakthrough Award' from
Hollywood Life.
In 2007, Lively played one of the two title characters in Elvis and Anabelle as Anabelle, a bulimic girl who hoped to win a beauty
pageant. Lively said of getting into character for the role that she had 'shed serious weight' for her height.
Lively stated that that process was difficult for her because food is “the
No. 1 love of my life. MovieLine.com praised her performance in
the film and credited it as having been her "breakthrough
role". Lively was cast in the CW's series Gossip Girl,
based on the book series of the same name by Cecily
von Ziegesar, which premiered in September 2007. She
played Serena van der Woodsen in the
teen drama.
Her first
magazine cover was the November 2007 issue of Cosmo Girl, where she
discussed her time in high school and her career prior to Gossip Girl.
In 2008, Lively reprised her role in the sequel, The Sisterhood of the Traveling
Pants 2. Similar to the first film, Lively was
positively received by critics.As of November 2009, the film had earned over
$44 million at the box office. In 2009, Lively appeared as Gabrielle
DiMarco, a minor role in the romantic comedy,New York, I Love You, a sequel to the 2006 film Paris, je t'aime. Despite positive reception from critics, the film had a
poor box office performance.
One of Lively's most acclaimed roles to
date is her supporting role playing the younger version of the title character
in The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009). Paul Byrnes, of
the Brisbane Times, described Lively's performance in the film as being
"sensational"In October 2009, Lively began filming her scenes for her
role as Krista Coughlin, in the 2010 film The Town, based on Chuck
Hogan's novel Prince of Thievesc.
In the film, Lively's role has been
described as "the sister of Jem and Doug's ex-girlfriend who has a
19-month old daughter, Shyne. The film, which also stars Ben Affleck,
was released in the United States on September 17, 2010 to critical acclaim. In
an interview with Marie Claire, Lively
stated that she wasn't relying on her career as an actress, that having her own
interior decorating firm could be a substitute as a back-up plan, and because
of her "fascination" with "colors and textures and layering
things.
Lively played Carol Ferris, the female lead and love interest of Hal Jordan in the superhero film Green
Lantern, which was released in June 2011. The
film grossed a worldwide total of $219,851,172. but was considered as a
summer flop as it "failed
to perform to expectations" even though it grossed more than its budget. Lively
appeared in the music video for The Lonely Island's "I Just
Had Sex" together with Jessica Alba in December 2010.
In 2012, she starred in Oliver Stone's Savages alongside Taylor Kitsch, Aaron Johnson, Salma
Hayek, and John Travolta. HitFix film
critic Drew McWeeny was positive of
Lively's work which he described as "smart and sad precisely because she
plays O as such a broken, needy little soul". Lively was originally
considered for the lead role in Steven Soderbergh's The Side Effects. It
was later reported that Rooney Mara would
replace her. Also in 2012, Lively was chosen as the face of the new Gucci fragrance titled Gucci Premiere. She appeared in a
short film ad directed by Nicolas Winding Refn for the fragrance.
Personal Life
Lively dated actor Kelly Blatz from 2004 to 2007; the two had
been friends since childhood. Lively dated actor Penn Badgley from
late 2007 to mid-September 2010. Lively began again dating her Green Lantern co-star, Ryan Reynolds, in
October 2011. In June 2012 she and Reynolds purchased a cottage in Bedford,
New York, for $2 million. The couple married on
September 9, 2012, at Boone Hall in Mount
Pleasant, South Carolina.
Trivia
Daughter of actor Ernie Lively and talent manager Elaine
Lively, younger sister of Eric Lively, and younger half-sister of Lori Lively,
Jason Livelyand Robyn Lively.
She stayed busy juggling duties as class president and
cheerleader as well as performing with her national championship show choir.
Has stated that she has known her "Gossip Girl"
(2007) co-star Penn Badgley since she was 11 years old.
On "Live with Regis and Kathie Lee" (1988), she
stated that her older brother, Eric Lively, didn't want to go to school alone
when it came time for him to be in the 1st grade. At the time, she was three
but very tall for her age. Her mother lied and said Blake was 6. Blake attended
1st grade and the school reported that she was "slow" when, in
reality, she was 3 and couldn't talk very well. She claims it made her brother
happy, so she was happy.
Was ranked #4 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 Women of 2010
list.
Lively was chosen by designer Karl Lagerfeld as the
"face" of Chanel's new "Mademoiselle" handbag line on the
January 5, 2011. The ad campaign, shot by Lagerfeld, is expected to premiere
mid-March, 2011.
Ranked #1 on Ask Men top 99 "most desirable women"
of 2011.
Voted #32 on Ask men's top 99 'most desirable' celebrity
women of 2012.
Daughter of actor Ernie Lively and talent manager Elaine
Lively, younger sister of Eric Lively, and younger half-sister of Lori Lively,
Jason Livelyand Robyn Lively.
Was ranked #4 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 Women of 2010
list.
Personal Quotes
My whole family's been in the business. My whole family is
crazy.
(About filming racy scenes on "Gossip Girl"
(2007)) It's the most awkward thing! There's a room of 40 people watching you,
they're telling you exactly how to move your head, and it's completely silent.
It's awful!
In high school, there are so many cliques. You're never
safe. In between my junior and senior years, I went away to film The Sisterhood
of the Traveling Pants (2005), and I came back ready to do the things with my
friends that we always did, but things change. People get older, and there are
some inside jokes that you don't know about that have happened. You feel lost
for a while, and it's hard to come back from that. Then the friends who have
"replaced" you are territorial. I've experienced that a little bit.
There are catty, insecure, and gossipy girls everywhere, but for me, I don't
think it's a matter of any of them being genuinely bad at heart. I just think
that maybe the different ways in which people are raised make them different
and insecure. They point out the bad things in others just to make themselves
feel better. It's everywhere.
(After moving to New York to film "Gossip Girl"
(2007)) I was raised in California, so this whole New York winter thing is
completely new for me. I've already justified buying seven coats!
I'm on a very commercial show ["Gossip Girl"
(2007)], so the last thing I want to do is a commercial movie. I wanna take
risks, I don't wanna play it safe. I mean, I could probably make more money if
I did more commercial projects. It would be nice to buy an apartment, but I'm
22, and I don't need to yet.
I want to have a brunch place, a bakery, and a Southern
restaurant - because my family's from Georgia - and then I want a place that is
all-over-the-world cuisine. I take a cooking class everywhere I travel. I find
it's the best way to get to know a culture. It's what people bring to the family
every day, what they break bread over - it's a very intimate thing.
I want babies. Lots of babies. Of course!
[on how she deals with any tension between work and anything
else] - I love what I do. I love my work. So, you know, of course I wanted to
be at the premiere [of The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)], but I had a job
to do, and so I had to be on the set in Boston and be a part of it. At the end
of the day, a premiere is a premiere. It's not somebody living or dying. So for
me, this other stuff - well, the perks is not the reason I do the job. Couture
fashion week, getting to meet Karl Lagerfeld and John Galliano and Christian
Louboutin is so exciting. It's like being a little girl and looking at these
designers saying, "Can you imagine one day seeing all of those ball
gowns?" But, at the end of the day, I wouldn't be there without my job.
There are a few things in life that matter above all else: your family, your
friends, your loved ones. But everything else comes and goes - especially in
this business where everything is so of the moment.
[on where her instinct in acting comes from] - I don't know.
I think it comes from the fact that I never really thought about acting as a
child. It wasn't like, "This is the career that I want to pursue." So
when I first started acting, I was more concerned with just being on a set and
all of the woes of that, and I didn't really know it or understand it as a
craft yet. When I saw my first movie, I was fine, but I thought, "Oh, my
heavens. It's not about just standing there on my mark and saying these lines.
I need to actually act." It was great to have my first opportunity be such
a big role, but also not great because all of the mistakes I made-the entire
learning process was on the big screen for everyone to see. That's been
something, movie by movie, that I've been able to grow and learn from-that I
always need to work harder to be better because it's still a new craft for me.
... I just did it on my own. I've never worked with an acting coach, but my
parents had acting classes and I grew up around them my whole life just because
I didn't have a babysitter. I'm actually a very shy person-that's a big secret,
so don't tell-but being in those classes pushed me to break out of that a
little bit. It's like nature versus nurture: I'm naturally very shy, but I was
brought up in a way where I had to get up and get out of that.
Yeah, I don't comment on my relationships... My anonymity is
something I treasure. Wanting to be an actor and wanting to be famous are
different.
With acting, I think half of it is just acting confident. We
stand on these red carpets and pose in these dresses, but we're all only so
confident. It doesn't mean we think we're great looking or anything. It's all a
façade.
[on being cast as Carol Ferris in Green Lantern (2011)]: It
was nice for me that this was a studio that wasn't looking for some girl to
have her legs greased up and her boobs out - and that was all that mattered. I
imagined that no one else knew anything about 'Green Lantern'. As soon as I got
the role I was humbled about how naive I was. They were grilling me about
StarSapphire and Hector Hammond and how many Green Lanterns are going to show
up. All I could say was 'What are you guys talking about?'
I probably feel the most alive when I'm with my family and
also when I'm cooking, and those normally coincide with each other. I love to
cook for my family, that's the best. I have all my nieces and nephews there,
and you really use your hands and it's such an experience for all the senses;
for the touch, for the smell, for the sight, so you feel really alive.
I like to play someone who is unlike me and the character I
play most often [Serena van der Woodsen on "Gossip Girl"]. Time and
again, I keep playing drug addicts with sexual issues! I never knew I had a
dark side, but this is where I get it out of my system.
[on Savages (2012)] It's especially exciting because our
movie's released amongst a ton of superhero movies, and a movie like this
doesn't normally exist amongst that. But, I look back to the movies that I love
from the 70s, those movies were the most successful movies; the best movies
were the most successful. And, now the most successful are the ones that
everybody goes to see but they're not the critically-acclaimed ones. So, when
we made this movie, it is such a graphic, intense, violent, honest film that we
knew that we were very much the black sheep. It's not a movie that is appealing
to all the masses. It will challenge people, and normally you don't want that
because you want people just to pay for your movie so you don't want to
challenge everyone; you want to please them all. So, the fact that this movie
can stand up amongst those superpowers, all the other films, that's something
that I feel really proud of. ... And still please them but to show that that
you can be good and successful.
[on the characters in Savages (2012)] I think it's really
hard for people to digest that these privileged kids are in a three-way
relationship. Your heroes are all sleeping with each other, but they're also in
love. It's very easy to dislike them, so when my character gets kidnapped, it's
like, 'Well, good riddance!' My greatest challenge was to make her life worthy
of saving, to find the heart in this story. I started thinking about the state
of young people these days. In my character's situation, her mom is off with
nine different husbands and her dad left her when she was a kid. She has nobody
to learn from, so she's making her own mistakes. Dad takes a hike and now she's
hiking up her dress for two guys. You don't think there's a parallel there?
These kids are very much the product of this cynical generation.
[on her character "O/Ophelia" in Savages (2012)]
To play a blond California girl who gets with two men was scary. If it looks
like me and talks like me, how do I turn it into something different? It would
have been easier if I'd been thrown into the movie with a Scottish accent and
purple hair.
I don't drink. I don't do drugs. I grew up with the mindset
that after work you go to dinner and watch a movie. I don't want to go to a
club and not wear panties.
