Selma Blair is best known for her
starring role in Cruel Intentions
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About
Selma Blair |
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Selma Blair, a native
of Southfield, Michigan, is best known for her starring role in Cruel
Intentions, a youthful retelling of the classic novel Les Liaisons
Dangereuses. Her sly performance as the bumbling Cecile earned rave reviews
and an MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss with Sarah Michelle Gellar. Blair was
also nominated for an MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance for
her role and won the Movieline Magazine Award for Most Exciting New Face.
Blair starred for two seasons as the title character in the WB's Zoe. Most
recently, she starred in Legally Blonde and in director Dana Lustig's
independent feature Kill Me Later. Blair also starred in director Todd
Solodnz's Storytelling. In The Sweetest Thing, Blair reunited with Cruel
Intentions' director Roger Krumble and starred opposite Cameron Diaz and
Christina Applegate. Humble despite her relatively quick rise to fame, Blair
is the model for how young actresses should behave once they reach celebrity
status. She is often sought after by magazines not only because of her
accomplishments and look, but her grounded, honest perspective on the
business she is so happily employed in. It is great to hear of an actress
who is actually in touch with reality.
"I've always felt like a tomboy but especially beside Christina [Applegate]
and Cameron [Diaz]. God bless anyone who looks at the three of us in one
frame and still finds me sexy." -Selma Blair, on her The Sweetest Thing
co-stars.
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Selma Blair's Birthday |
In the town of
Southfield, Michigan, Selma Blair Beitner was born June 23, 1972. Blair
decided to take a big step and move to New York City to pursue a career in
photography, after receiving a combined degree in Fine Arts and English from
Michigan University. But once in the Big Apple, she realized that her future
did not lie behind the camera, but in front of it.
Selma Blair started out doing cool, independent films that received high
praise despite minimal promotion. Right away, her talent and willingness to
take a good script and work with it were evident. Despite being a newcomer,
she knew where her loyalty lay: there would be no settling for a lesser
story just to get her name out there. These are admirable traits for someone
surrounded by the intoxicating hype of Hollywood.
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Selma Blair as Actress |
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After being
discovered by an agent, Blair played substantial roles in indie films Strong
Island Boys (1997), Girl (1998), and Brown's Requiem (1998), and the TV
movie No Laughing Matter (1997). She truly arrived, as the proverbial young
actress to watch, in 1999 as level-headed New York teen Zoe in the WB sitcom
Zoe, Duncan, Jack, and Jane (retitled Zoe in 2000), and more prominently, as
the gullible and bumbling Cecile Caldwell in the popular -Les Liaisons
Dangereuses update Cruel Intentions (1999). Although Cecile played a
secondary role in the film's nefarious sexual machinations among rich
Manhattan prep schoolers, Blair's attention-getting onscreen kiss with
co-star Sarah Michelle Gellar earned the teen seal of approval with an MTV
Movie Award for Best Kiss in June 2000. Blair continued her youth movie work
as a school drop-out-turned-porn star in the college romantic comedy Down to
You (2000). After the cancellation of Zoe, Blair turned her attention again
to movies. Though she played the lead in Kill Me Later (2001), Blair had a
higher profile supporting role in the hit summer comedy Legally Blonde
(2001). As the WASP Harvard law student Vivian Kensington, Blair was the
uptight, brunette opposite of Cruel Intentions co-star Reese Witherspoon's
pink and blonde Los Angeles princess Elle Woods, initially sneering at her
vulgar rival before being won over by Elle's legal smarts and their shared
love interest's idiocy. Taking a break from Hollywood froth, Blair also
appeared as a co-ed who has a fateful intimate encounter with her writing
professor in indie film provocateur Todd Solondz's customarily acidic third
feature Storytelling (2001). A role as Elle Woods' (Reese Witherspoon)
adversary turned friend in the hit 2001 comedy Legally Blonde found Blair
offering an effective ying to star Witherspoon's yang, and subsequent roles
in The Sweetest Thing (2002) and A Guy Thing (2003) found her offering a
pair of winning supporting performances. Her status as an of-the-moment
ingenue was further sealed by her participation, along with such other
actresses as Julia Stiles and Mena Suvari, in the newfangled, tasteful 2002
version of the Pirelli Tires Calendar, and in 2004 Blair opted to expand her
resume into special-effects laden blockbuster territory with the
larger-than-life comic-to-screen adaptation Hellboy. |
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Selma Blair's Movies |
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2008 Hellboy
2: The Golden Army
2007 Hellboy: Blood and Iron
2007 Homeland Security
2007 The Feast of Love
2006 Hellboy: Sword of Storms
2006 Lies & Alibis
2006 The Night of the White Pants
2005 The Fog
2005 Pretty Persuasion
2004 The Deal
2004 In Good Company
2004 Hellboy
2004 A Dirty Shame
2003 Coast to Coast
2003 Dallas 362
2002 A Guy Thing
2002 Friends: The One With Christmas in Tulsa
2002 The Sweetest Thing
2001 Storytelling
2001 Kill Me Later
2001 Legally Blonde
2001 Highway
2000 Xena: Warrior Princess - Lifeblood
2000 Down to You
1999 Cruel Intentions
1999 Zoe, Duncan, Jack & Jane [TV Series]
1998 Brown's Requiem
1998 Can't Hardly Wait
1998 Girl
1997 No Laughing Matter
1997 In & Out
1997 Strong Island Boys
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| Selma Blair and Sean "P.
Diddy" Combs. WTF!? |
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File this
one under "Random." I would never have thought to see Selma Blair and
Sean "P. Diddy" Combs hanging out together, and on the beach no less. I
mean, did you?
And could it be something more than friendship? Well, Selma Blair is
newly single (or separated) from her husband Ahmet Zappa, and what
better way to get over an odd, pasty, white dude, than with one of the
biggest Rappers of all time?
Alas, they're not exactly "together." It was a random meet on the beach,
but still, it's an odd picture. And definitely random. |
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