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Selma Blair (born June 23, 1972) is an
American actress. She became known in the late 1990s and
has appeared in several supporting and lead roles in
Hollywood films.
Early life: Blair was born Selma Blair Beitner in
Southfield, Michigan, to Molly Ann and Elliot Beitner,
who divorced when Blair was 23; she subsequently legally
changed her surname to reflect that she has
"nothing to do" with her father and he is
"out of" her life. She has three older
sisters, Katherine (a book publicist), Elizabeth, and
Marie.
Blair had a Jewish upbringing and was
given the Hebrew name Batsheva. As a child, Blair
attended Hillel Day School and Cranbrook Kingswood
school in Bloomfield Hills. She studied at Kalamazoo
College from 1990 – 1992, then transferred to the
University of Michigan, where she earned her bachelor's
degree in 1994. She also studied with Stella Adler.
Career: Blair began acting the 1990s, starring in
the film Cruel Intentions (1999), opposite Sarah
Michelle Gellar and Reese Witherspoon. Both Blair and
Witherspoon later starred together in Legally Blonde
(2001). More recently, she appeared alongside Cameron
Diaz and Christina Applegate in The Sweetest Thing
(2002), and in Hellboy (2004). Also in 2002 she had a
guest role on the hit sitcom Friends. She played the
character of "Zoe" in the year-long TV series,
Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane. She was ranked #93 on the
FHM 100 Sexiest Women of 2004.
After a couple of years of independent films and TV,
Selma Blair began to make her name in late-'90s
teen-targeted work. The Michigan-born and educated Blair
originally moved to New York to pursue a career as a
photographer, but wound up taking acting classes at the
Stella Adler Conservatory instead.
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.
Personal life: Blair was married to musician
Ahmet Zappa on January 24, 2004, in Los Angeles. She
filed for divorce at the Los Angeles Superior Court on
June 21, 2006, citing irreconcilable differences. In a
statement to People, a spokesperson for the couple said,
"Selma and Ahmet have decided to divorce but love
each other very much and will continue to be close
friends. She recently completed a stint at rehab, a
30-day program. Sources say that when Selma split from
her husband, Ahmet Zappa, last November her drug abuse
went into high gear. She quietly checked herself into
Promises, and has since completed the program" |
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