Selma Blair
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Selma Blair is an American actress who has worked in film, theatre and television. She has performed in feature films including Cruel Intentions
, Legally Blonde
, The Sweetest Thing
, Hellboy
, The Fog
, Purple Violets
and Hellboy II: The Golden Army. She also played the titular role of Kim in the US version of the TV series Kath & Kim
.
, the daughter of Molly Ann (née Cooke), a judge
, and Elliot Beitner. She has three older sisters, Katherine (a book publicist), Elizabeth, and Marie.
Blair attended Hillel Day School
, a Jewish day school
in Farmington Hills, Cranbrook Kingswood in Bloomfield Hills
, and Kalamazoo College
, where she spent her freshman year (1990–91) and she did a play called "The Little Theater of the Green Goose" and studied photography.
Later, Blair moved to New York city to pursue her photography career, where she lived at The Salvation Army
and decided to take acting classes at The Stella Adler Conservatory
and The Column Theatre and began an acting career.
After transferring from New York University
, she graduated magna cum laude from the University of Michigan
in 1994 with a BFA
in photography, a Double major
in Fine Arts & English and a BA
in Psychology.
Her first audition was for a cereal commercial, later she gave her first appearance in a television spots advertising for a theater in Virginia
.
After this, Blair began acting in the mid-90s and won her first professional role in 1995 in an episode of the children's television sitcom The Adventures of Pete & Pete
.
She won her first lead role in the fantasy TV series Amazon High with Karl Urban
, which was cancelled after one episode and later was transmitted in the episode "Lifeblood" of the series Xena: Warrior Princess
. In 1996 she landed her first film role in The Broccoli Theory, an unromantic comedy; later in 1997 Blair had her first starring movie role in the family drama No Laughing Matter, as a pregnant teenager, subsequently she appeared in several independent movies like Debutante with Josh Hartnett
, Girl
opposite Dominique Swain
, the suspense thriller Brown's Requiem, based on the crime novel of the same name and Strong Island boys, based on true events about a Long Island
street gang.
Blair also appeared in My Friend Steve
's 1998 music video for the song "Charmed", and the Placebo
music video for "Every You Every Me
".
and Ryan Phillippe
in the 1999 film Cruel Intentions
; Blair took the role of an innocent girl whose classmates try to ruin her reputation, for her performance she was nominated for an MTV Movie Award for "Best Breakthrough Performance" and won for "Best Kiss" with Gellar.
From 1999-2000, Blair went on to star as Zoe Bean on Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane
, the first season following the lives of four high school classmates and the second season was just called Zoe and follows Zoe a few years later as a college student studying psychology, for her role she was nominated for the Teen Choice Awards
for TV – Breakout Performance category.
In 2000 Blair won a Young Hollywood Award in the Exciting New Face - Female Category
and portrays a predatory and sexy seductress college girl in the teen comedy Down to you
alongside Freddie Prinze, Jr.
and Julia Stiles
.
Her film career continued in the 21st century with the comedy Legally Blonde
opposite Reese Witherspoon
, she played a snobby and preppy law student. Blair also starred in several independent dramas like Kill Me Later
as a depressed girl fed up with her life, who attempts suicide, followed by the controversial Storytelling
, a drama set in 1985. Blair portrayed a college student, unsure of herself, who is forced to have a relationship with her teacher.
Blair later co-starred the indie film Highway featuring Jared Leto
and Jake Gyllenhaal
, a story set in 1994 that tells the road trip to Seattle for three friends wanting to leave their problems behind. The movie went straight to DVD in early 2002.
Soon after, Blair appeared in the comedy The Sweetest Thing
alongside Cameron Diaz
and Christina Applegate
, for which she was nominated again for an Teen Choice Award, this time for "Best Actress in a Comedy". She also appeared in a guest role on the hit TV series Friends
.
At the same time Selma Blair appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone
on April 25, 2002.
In early 2003, Blair appeared in the romantic comedy A Guy Thing
with Jason Lee
where she rejoined Stiles. Later she appeared in several supporting roles like the television movie
Coast to Coast
with Judy Davis
, the action film Dallas 362
and the comedy-drama In Good Company.
Blair followed these with one of her most recognized roles, as depressed
pyrotechnic superhero Liz Sherman
in the Guillermo Del Toro
blockbuster Hellboy
. The film is based on the Mike Mignola
's popular comic and co-starring Ron Perlman
. Later she took the titular role in the TV series pilot DeMarco Affairs in a story about three sisters who run a wedding planning business located in Long Island.
In the fall 2004, Blair played the role of an adolescent exhibitionist in John Waters
’ satirical sex comedy A Dirty Shame
, and she took part on the social project The 1 Second Film
as a producer.
Selma Blair was included on the FHM
list of the 100 Sexiest Women of 2004.
In 2005 she portrayed a young Harvard-trained economist involved in an international oil scandal in the political thriller The Deal
alongside Christian Slater
, and appeared in a supporting role in the black comedy
Pretty Persuasion
, Blair then starred in John Carpenter
's ghost movie The Fog
, in which she did her own stunts. The movie debuted at number one in its opening weekend in the United States and Canada. She also stars in the short film , produced by George Clooney
about an unusual medical condition.
Blair's next starring role was in the 2006 indie film The Night of the White Pants
with Nick Stahl
, and later she appeared in a small role in the comedy-drama The Alibi
.
In 2007 Blair took the lead role in Edward Burns
' Purple Violets
, a romantic comedy, alongside Burns, Patrick Wilson
and Debra Messing
, which was premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival
and was the first feature film to debut on the iTunes Store
, She played a lonely writer who falls in love with her childhood sweetheart. She then appeared in the horror thriller WΔZ opposite Stellan Skarsgård
, playing a medical student victim of sexual assault avenging her mother's murder. The film was well-received by critics. She also appeared in Feast of Love
featuring Greg Kinnear
and Morgan Freeman
, playing a woman tired of being ignored in her marriage.
Blair was included in the list of People magazine's "World's Most Beautiful People 2007".
In 2008 she again played Liz Sherman
in Hellboy II: The Golden Army, in this sequel, her character was much more extensive and influential in the plot of the movie, for which she was nominated for the Scream Awards
for Best Actress in a Fantasy Movie or TV Show, the film ranked First at the Box-office in the United States, Canada and many other countries.
Later she returned to indie film territory and portrayed a drugged out abusive mother in Lori Petty
's The Poker House opposite Jennifer Lawrence
, which is based on true events and is set in 1976, the film receiving generally favorable reviews from critics. Blair also worked with Antonio Banderas
and Meg Ryan
in the adventure comedy My Mom's New Boyfriend
where she played a young FBI detective.
Blair was included in Glamour's The 50 Most Glamorous Women of 2008.
From 2008-2009, Blair accepted the titular role in the TV series Kath & Kim
, opposite Molly Shannon
based on the Australian television series of the same name about a mother and daughter who are obsessed with celebrity culture, Blair plays Kim, a self-absorbed suburban young princess, who is forced to reassess her relationship with her mother. Blair also appeared with Rainn Wilson
singing a Christmas carol (Baby, It's Cold Outside) for an extensive Christmas commercial campaign.
In 2009, she returned to the stage, and take the lead role as Kayleen in Rajiv Joseph
's Gruesome Playground Injuries, which had its world premiere at Houston's Alley Theatre
. The work talks about why people hurt themselves emotional and physically to win love and attention. The play was premiered with positive reviews in Texas.
Blair also appeared in a supporting role as a seductive teacher in the black comedy
The Family Tree with Madeline Zima
, which was officially released in U.S. theaters on August 26, 2011.
In 2010, Blair had the lead in the indie thriller Columbus Circle
, featuring Amy Smart
, she portrayed a reclusive heiress who is brought face to face with her fears when a detective shows up to investigate a homicide. Blair promoted the film in its market premiere on November 3rd, 2011 at the 32nd American Film Market
, which took place in Santa Monica, California
.
Selma Blair also appeared again in a music video, this time with Elijah Wood
in Danko Jones
´ spy story Full of Regret and she starred as a funny pregnant girl in three episodes of the on line television series Web Therapy
starring Friends star Lisa Kudrow
.
In the same year Blair appeared as a guest-judge in Heidi Klum
's fashion reality show Project Runway
.
Blair later starred the trailer shot for Jamie Foxx
's drama project "Tommy's Little Girl", where she plays a psychologically traumatized orphan girl who will grow up to become an attorney by day, and a deadly killer by night.
Blair is responsible for lending her voice to a document of The Holocaust
, The Diary of Anne Frank
" in audiobook format, for which she was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children
category.
In 2011 Blair appeared as guest-star in the episode "Blunderbuss" of the TV series Portlandia
. Blair has recently filmed the short film Animal Love which was premiered at the 2011 Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films
, and also stars in the comedy-short subject The Break-In directed by Jaime King
for Atom Films
Entertainment.
Selma Blair's upcoming projects include the World War I drama Four Saints based on the novel Angels in Flanders, where she play the lead role and portrays an heroic nurse, she also take the lead in the cross-cultural comedy-drama "Different Kind Of Love" with Richard Dreyfuss
, recently the film won two awards for Best Comedy-Drama Screenplay and Best Special Mention Screenplay at the Angel Film Awards in Monaco.
Blair also will star in the home invasion thriller Replicas where she portrays a mother trying to enjoy some quality time with her family when things go horribly wrong, and she stars in the comedy-drama Dark Horse
with Christopher Walken
and Mia Farrow
, where she plays an immature troubled woman in arrested development in search of success. Blair promoted the film in its world premiere at the 68th Venice Film Festival
on September 5th, 2011, and at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival
on September 11th. The film is scheduled for market premiere in November 2011 at the 32nd American Film Market
, which will take place in Santa Monica, California
.
in January, 2004 at Carrie Fisher
's mansion in Beverly Hills, California. She filed for divorce at the Los Angeles Superior Court on June, 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”.
On January 14, 2011, Blair's representative announced that she is expecting her first child with her boyfriend, fashion designer Jason Bleick, according to People Magazine: "They couldn't be happier. Her life right now is a dream come true".
On July 25, 2011, Selma Blair gave birth to a baby boy named Arthur Saint. A representative for the actress tells People magazine that the little one weighed in at 7 lbs., 12 oz while delivered at a Los Angeles hospital.
Selma Blair is known to follow new style and fashion trends in addition to her radical hairstyle changes, and she is a frequent guest-star at New York Fashion Week
and other fashion events.
Blair enjoys child and animal care and has practiced horseback riding since age 17; Wink, her dog since her beginnings in the acting industry, died in February 2011. She also collects black and white photographs and practices Ice skating
.
Blair's charity work and causes include Marc Jacobs
' Skin Cancer Awareness Campaign, H&M
's Fashion Against AIDS 2011 Campaign, Children's Action Network hosted by Stella McCartney
, AmFAR AIDS Research 2011, Staying Alive Foundation and National Multiple Sclerosis Society
.
Cruel Intentions
Cruel Intentions is a 1999 American drama film starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon, and Selma Blair. The film is an adaptation of the 18th-century French epistolary novel Les Liaisons dangereuses by Laclos and is set among wealthy teenagers living in modern New York...
, Legally Blonde
Legally Blonde
Legally Blonde is a 2001 American comedy film directed by Robert Luketic, written by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith, and produced by Marc E. Platt...
, The Sweetest Thing
The Sweetest Thing
The Sweetest Thing is a 2002 American film farce directed by Roger Kumble and written by Nancy Pimental, who based the characters on herself and friend Kate Walsh...
, Hellboy
Hellboy (film)
Hellboy is a 2004 supernatural superhero film, starring Ron Perlman, John Hurt and Selma Blair, directed by Guillermo del Toro. The film is based on the Dark Horse Comics work Hellboy: Seed of Destruction by Mike Mignola. It was produced by Revolution Studios, and distributed by Columbia Pictures...
, The Fog
The Fog (2005 film)
The Fog is a 2005 horror film directed by Rupert Wainwright and starring Tom Welling, Selma Blair and Maggie Grace. It is a remake of John Carpenter's 1980 film of the same name, but this time made more in the vein of a "teen horror film" .Both Carpenter and Debra Hill The Fog is a 2005 horror film...
, Purple Violets
Purple Violets
Purple Violets is a relationship comedy written and directed by Edward Burns. It is an independent film, set in lower Manhattan, about four friends from college ready for change. It features Burns, Selma Blair, Patrick Wilson, and Debra Messing....
and Hellboy II: The Golden Army. She also played the titular role of Kim in the US version of the TV series Kath & Kim
Kath & Kim (U.S. TV series)
Kath & Kim is an American version of the Australian television comedy series of the same name starring Selma Blair and Molly Shannon. The series premiered on NBC on October 9, 2008...
.
Early life
Blair was born Selma Blair Beitner in Southfield, MichiganSouthfield, Michigan
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which 0.04% is water. The main branch of the River Rouge runs through Southfield. The city is bounded to the south by Eight Mile Road, its western border is Inkster Road, and to the east it is bounded by Greenfield Road...
, the daughter of Molly Ann (née Cooke), a judge
Judge
A judge is a person who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as part of a panel of judges. The powers, functions, method of appointment, discipline, and training of judges vary widely across different jurisdictions. The judge is supposed to conduct the trial impartially and in an open...
, and Elliot Beitner. She has three older sisters, Katherine (a book publicist), Elizabeth, and Marie.
Blair attended Hillel Day School
Hillel Day School
Hillel Day School is a private, Jewish day school in Farmington Hills, Michigan which was founded in 1958. It provides both secular and Judaic studies instruction for students from preschool through eighth grade...
, a Jewish day school
Jewish day school
A Jewish day school is a modern Jewish educational institution that is designed to provide Jewish children with both a Jewish and a secular education in one school on a full time basis, hence its name of "day school" meaning a school that the students attend for an entire day and not on a part time...
in Farmington Hills, Cranbrook Kingswood in Bloomfield Hills
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Bloomfield Hills is a city in Oakland County of the U.S. state of Michigan, northwest of downtown Detroit. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 3,869...
, and Kalamazoo College
Kalamazoo College
Kalamazoo College, also known as K College or simply K, is a private liberal arts college in Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1833, the college is among the 100 oldest in the country. Today, it produces more Peace Corps volunteers per capita than any other U.S...
, where she spent her freshman year (1990–91) and she did a play called "The Little Theater of the Green Goose" and studied photography.
Later, Blair moved to New York city to pursue her photography career, where she lived at The Salvation Army
The Salvation Army
The Salvation Army is a Protestant Christian church known for its thrift stores and charity work. It is an international movement that currently works in over a hundred countries....
and decided to take acting classes at The Stella Adler Conservatory
Stella Adler Studio of Acting
Stella Adler Studio of Acting is an acting school in New York founded by the actress and teacher Stella Adler -History:...
and The Column Theatre and began an acting career.
After transferring from New York University
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
, she graduated magna cum laude from the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
in 1994 with a BFA
Bachelor of Fine Arts
In the United States and Canada, the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, usually abbreviated BFA, is the standard undergraduate degree for students seeking a professional education in the visual or performing arts. In some countries such a degree is called a Bachelor of Creative Arts or BCA...
in photography, a Double major
Academic major
In the United States and Canada, an academic major or major concentration is the academic discipline to which an undergraduate student formally commits....
in Fine Arts & English and a BA
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
in Psychology.
Early work
After training at the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting, Blair was discovered by an agent, one week later, she received her membership card at the Actors' union.Her first audition was for a cereal commercial, later she gave her first appearance in a television spots advertising for a theater in Virginia
Virginia
The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...
.
After this, Blair began acting in the mid-90s and won her first professional role in 1995 in an episode of the children's television sitcom The Adventures of Pete & Pete
The Adventures of Pete & Pete
The Adventures of Pete & Pete is an American children's television series produced by Wellsville Pictures and broadcast by Nickelodeon. The show featured humorous and surreal elements in its narrative, and many recurring themes centered on two brothers both named Pete Wrigley, and their various...
.
She won her first lead role in the fantasy TV series Amazon High with Karl Urban
Karl Urban
Karl-Heinz Urban is a New Zealand actor.He is known for playing Éomer in the second and third installments of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy in the 2009 film Star Trek and Julius Caesar on Xena: Warrior Princess...
, which was cancelled after one episode and later was transmitted in the episode "Lifeblood" of the series Xena: Warrior Princess
Xena: Warrior Princess
Xena: Warrior Princess is an American–New Zealand supernatural fantasy adventure series that aired in syndication from September 4, 1995 until June 18, 2001....
. In 1996 she landed her first film role in The Broccoli Theory, an unromantic comedy; later in 1997 Blair had her first starring movie role in the family drama No Laughing Matter, as a pregnant teenager, subsequently she appeared in several independent movies like Debutante with Josh Hartnett
Josh Hartnett
Joshua Daniel "Josh" Hartnett is an American actor and aspiring producer. He first came to audiences' attention in 1997 as "Michael Fitzgerald" in the television series Cracker. He made his feature film debut in 1998, co-starring with Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween H20: 20 Years Later for Miramax...
, Girl
Girl (film)
Girl is a 1998 American drama film starring Dominique Swain, Christopher Masterson, Sean Patrick Flanery, Summer Phoenix, Tara Reid, John Philbin and Selma Blair. It was based on the novel of the same name, written by Blake Nelson. It was written by Blake Nelson and David E...
opposite Dominique Swain
Dominique Swain
Dominique Ariane Swain is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as the title character in the 1997 film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita, and as Jamie Archer in the film Face/Off.- Early life :...
, the suspense thriller Brown's Requiem, based on the crime novel of the same name and Strong Island boys, based on true events about a Long Island
Long Island
Long Island is an island located in the southeast part of the U.S. state of New York, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are boroughs of New York City , and two of which are mainly suburban...
street gang.
Blair also appeared in My Friend Steve
My Friend Steve
My Friend Steve, with frontman Steven Burry, was a band hailing from Orlando, Florida. "Charmed", released on their 1998 album Hope & Wait , was their only single which charted. The single appeared on Billboard's 1999 Modern Rock Chart, peaking at number 38. The song also reached the Adult Top 40...
's 1998 music video for the song "Charmed", and the Placebo
Placebo (band)
Placebo are a British rock band from London, England, formed in 1994 by singer and guitarist Brian Molko and bass guitarist Stefan Olsdal. The band was joined by drummer Robert Schultzberg, who was later replaced by Steve Hewitt after conflicts with Molko. Hewitt left the band in October 2007 and...
music video for "Every You Every Me
Every You Every Me
"Every You Every Me" is a single by British alternative rock band Placebo, from their second album, Without You I'm Nothing. It reached number 11 in the UK Singles Chart. The lyrics were written by frontman Brian Molko and Paul Campion, lead singer of the band AC Acoustics.The single was featured...
".
Film career
With several auditions, film roles and guest roles in various television series, Blair starred in a mainstream movie with Sarah Michelle GellarSarah Michelle Gellar
Sarah Michelle Prinze , known professionally by her birth name of Sarah Michelle Gellar , is an American actress, singer and executive producer...
and Ryan Phillippe
Ryan Phillippe
Matthew Ryan Phillippe , better known as Ryan Phillippe, is an American actor. After appearing on the soap opera One Life to Live, he came to fame in the late 1990s starring in a string of films, including I Know What You Did Last Summer, Cruel Intentions, and 54...
in the 1999 film Cruel Intentions
Cruel Intentions
Cruel Intentions is a 1999 American drama film starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon, and Selma Blair. The film is an adaptation of the 18th-century French epistolary novel Les Liaisons dangereuses by Laclos and is set among wealthy teenagers living in modern New York...
; Blair took the role of an innocent girl whose classmates try to ruin her reputation, for her performance she was nominated for an MTV Movie Award for "Best Breakthrough Performance" and won for "Best Kiss" with Gellar.
From 1999-2000, Blair went on to star as Zoe Bean on Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane
Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane
Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane is an American teen sitcom starring Selma Blair, David Moscow, Michael Rosenbaum, and Azura Skye that premiered in 1999 on The WB network...
, the first season following the lives of four high school classmates and the second season was just called Zoe and follows Zoe a few years later as a college student studying psychology, for her role she was nominated for the Teen Choice Awards
Teen Choice Awards
The Teen Choice Awards, are an annual awards show that air on the Fox cable channel, that honor the year's biggest biggest achievements in music, movies, sports, television, fashion and more, voted by teen viewers aged 14 through 17. Winners receive an authentic full size surfboard designed with...
for TV – Breakout Performance category.
In 2000 Blair won a Young Hollywood Award in the Exciting New Face - Female Category
and portrays a predatory and sexy seductress college girl in the teen comedy Down to you
Down to You
Down to You is a 2000 romantic comedy film about losing a first love. It was directed by Kris Isacsson. The main characters are Alfred 'Al' Connelly Imogen and Cyrus...
alongside Freddie Prinze, Jr.
Freddie Prinze, Jr.
Freddie James Prinze, Jr. is an American actor. He rose to fame during the late 1990s and early 2000s, after starring in several Hollywood films aimed at teenage audiences, I Know What You Did Last Summer and its sequel, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer , as well as She's All That , Summer...
and Julia Stiles
Julia Stiles
Julia O'Hara Stiles is an American actress.After beginning her career in small parts in a New York City theatre troupe, she has moved on to leading roles in plays by writers as diverse as William Shakespeare and David Mamet...
.
Her film career continued in the 21st century with the comedy Legally Blonde
Legally Blonde
Legally Blonde is a 2001 American comedy film directed by Robert Luketic, written by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith, and produced by Marc E. Platt...
opposite Reese Witherspoon
Reese Witherspoon
Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon , better known as Reese Witherspoon, is an American actress and film producer. Witherspoon landed her first feature role as the female lead in the film The Man in the Moon in 1991; later that year she made her television acting debut, in the cable movie Wildflower...
, she played a snobby and preppy law student. Blair also starred in several independent dramas like Kill Me Later
Kill Me Later
Kill Me Later is a 2001 film directed by Dana Lustig and starring Selma Blair and Max Beesley; it also features Brendan Fehr and Keegan Connor Tracy.-Synopsis :Blair plays Shawn, a suicidal loan officer at a bank....
as a depressed girl fed up with her life, who attempts suicide, followed by the controversial Storytelling
Storytelling (film)
Storytelling is a 2001 film, directed by Todd Solondz. It features original music by Belle & Sebastian, later compiled on an album of the same name...
, a drama set in 1985. Blair portrayed a college student, unsure of herself, who is forced to have a relationship with her teacher.
Blair later co-starred the indie film Highway featuring Jared Leto
Jared Leto
Jared Joseph Leto is an American actor, director, producer, occasional model and musician. Leto has appeared in both big budget Hollywood films and smaller projects from independent producers and art houses. He rose to prominence for playing Jordan Catalano in the teenage drama My So-Called Life...
and Jake Gyllenhaal
Jake Gyllenhaal
Jacob Benjamin "Jake" Gyllenhaal is an American actor. The son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner, Gyllenhaal began acting at age ten...
, a story set in 1994 that tells the road trip to Seattle for three friends wanting to leave their problems behind. The movie went straight to DVD in early 2002.
Soon after, Blair appeared in the comedy The Sweetest Thing
The Sweetest Thing
The Sweetest Thing is a 2002 American film farce directed by Roger Kumble and written by Nancy Pimental, who based the characters on herself and friend Kate Walsh...
alongside Cameron Diaz
Cameron Diaz
Cameron Michelle Diaz is an American actress and former model. She became famous during the 1990s with roles in the movies The Mask, My Best Friend's Wedding, and There's Something About Mary. Other high-profile credits include the two Charlie's Angels films, voicing the character Princess Fiona...
and Christina Applegate
Christina Applegate
Christina Applegate is an American actress. She is best known for playing Kelly Bundy on the Fox sitcom Married... with Children. Since then, she has established a film and television career, winning a Primetime Emmy and earning Tony and Golden Globe nominations...
, for which she was nominated again for an Teen Choice Award, this time for "Best Actress in a Comedy". She also appeared in a guest role on the hit TV series Friends
Friends
Friends is an American sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994 to May 6, 2004. The series revolves around a group of friends in Manhattan. The series was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television...
.
At the same time Selma Blair appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...
on April 25, 2002.
In early 2003, Blair appeared in the romantic comedy A Guy Thing
A Guy Thing
- Plot :Karen and Paul are about get married. However, after his bachelor party, Paul wakes up next to Becky , a dancer at the party. Assuming they slept together, Paul rushes Becky out of his apartment and hopes never to see her again. He tries to cover up the connection for the few days before...
with Jason Lee
Jason Lee (actor)
Jason Michael Lee is an American actor and skateboarder known for his role as the title character on the NBC television series My Name is Earl, his portrayal of Syndrome in the film The Incredibles, his role as Dave Seville in the Alvin and the Chipmunks films, and his work with director Kevin...
where she rejoined Stiles. Later she appeared in several supporting roles like the television movie
Television movie
A television film is a feature film that is a television program produced for and originally distributed by a television network, in contrast to...
Coast to Coast
Coast to Coast (TV film)
Coast to Coast is 2003 television movie starring Richard Dreyfuss, Judy Davis, and Selma Blair, and directed by Paul Mazursky. It is based on the novel by Frederic Raphael, who also wrote film's screenplay...
with Judy Davis
Judy Davis
Judy Davis is an Australian actress best known for her roles in Husbands and Wives, Barton Fink, A Passage to India and in the TV miniseries Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows....
, the action film Dallas 362
Dallas 362
Dallas 362 is a 2003 film, starring and directed by Scott Caan. This film was Caan's debut as a director.The movie won the Critics Award at the 2003 CineVegas International Film Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada.-Plot:...
and the comedy-drama In Good Company.
Blair followed these with one of her most recognized roles, as depressed
Clinical depression
Major depressive disorder is a mental disorder characterized by an all-encompassing low mood accompanied by low self-esteem, and by loss of interest or pleasure in normally enjoyable activities...
pyrotechnic superhero Liz Sherman
Liz Sherman
Elizabeth 'Liz' Sherman is a fictional character appearing in the Hellboy comic book series created by Mike Mignola.-Fictional character history:...
in the Guillermo Del Toro
Guillermo del Toro
Guillermo del Toro is a Mexican director, producer, screenwriter, novelist and designer. He is mostly known for his acclaimed films, Blade II, Pan's Labyrinth and the Hellboy film franchise. He is a frequent collaborator with Ron Perlman, Federico Luppi and Doug Jones...
blockbuster Hellboy
Hellboy (film)
Hellboy is a 2004 supernatural superhero film, starring Ron Perlman, John Hurt and Selma Blair, directed by Guillermo del Toro. The film is based on the Dark Horse Comics work Hellboy: Seed of Destruction by Mike Mignola. It was produced by Revolution Studios, and distributed by Columbia Pictures...
. The film is based on the Mike Mignola
Mike Mignola
Michael Joseph "Mike" Mignola is an American comic book artist and writer who created the comic book series Hellboy for Dark Horse Comics. He has worked for animation projects such as Atlantis: The Lost Empire and the adaptation of his one shot comic book, The Amazing Screw-On Head.-Career:Mignola...
's popular comic and co-starring Ron Perlman
Ron Perlman
Ronald N. "Ron" Perlman is an American television, film and voice over actor. He is known for having played Vincent in the TV series Beauty and the Beast , a Deathstroke figure known as Slade in the animated series Teen Titans, Clarence "Clay" Morrow in Sons of Anarchy, the comic book character...
. Later she took the titular role in the TV series pilot DeMarco Affairs in a story about three sisters who run a wedding planning business located in Long Island.
In the fall 2004, Blair played the role of an adolescent exhibitionist in John Waters
John Waters (filmmaker)
John Samuel Waters, Jr. is an American filmmaker, actor, stand-up comedian, writer, journalist, visual artist, and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films...
’ satirical sex comedy A Dirty Shame
A Dirty Shame
A Dirty Shame is a 2004 satirical sex comedy written and directed by John Waters, and starring Tracey Ullman, Selma Blair, Johnny Knoxville, Chris Isaak, Suzanne Shepherd, and Mink Stole.-Plot:...
, and she took part on the social project The 1 Second Film
The 1 Second Film
The 1 Second Film is a non-profit collaborative art project being created by thousands of people around the world, including many celebrities....
as a producer.
Selma Blair was included on the FHM
FHM
FHM, originally published as For Him Magazine, is an international monthly men's lifestyle magazine.- History :The magazine began publication in 1985 in the United Kingdom under the name For Him and changed its title to FHM in 1994 when Emap Consumer Media bought the magazine, although the full For...
list of the 100 Sexiest Women of 2004.
In 2005 she portrayed a young Harvard-trained economist involved in an international oil scandal in the political thriller The Deal
The Deal (2005 film)
The Deal is a 2005 political thriller film directed by Harvey Kahn, starring Christian Slater, Selma Blair, Robert Loggia and Colm Feore. The movie was filmed in 2004 and based in Boston, Massachusetts...
alongside Christian Slater
Christian Slater
Christian Michael Leonard Slater is an American actor. He made his film debut with a small role in The Postman Always Rings Twice before playing a leading role in the 1985 film The Legend of Billie Jean...
, and appeared in a supporting role in the black comedy
Black comedy
A black comedy, or dark comedy, is a comic work that employs black humor or gallows humor. The definition of black humor is problematic; it has been argued that it corresponds to the earlier concept of gallows humor; and that, as humor has been defined since Freud as a comedic act that anesthetizes...
Pretty Persuasion
Pretty Persuasion
Pretty Persuasion is a 2005 American black comedy/satirical film about a 15-year-old schoolgirl who makes an allegation of sexual harassment against her drama teacher. The film's tagline is: "Revenge knows no mercy." It was written by Skander Halim and directed by Marcos Siega...
, Blair then starred in John Carpenter
John Carpenter
John Howard Carpenter is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, editor, composer, and occasional actor. Although Carpenter has worked in numerous film genres in his four-decade career, his name is most commonly associated with horror and science fiction.- Early life :Carpenter was born...
's ghost movie The Fog
The Fog (2005 film)
The Fog is a 2005 horror film directed by Rupert Wainwright and starring Tom Welling, Selma Blair and Maggie Grace. It is a remake of John Carpenter's 1980 film of the same name, but this time made more in the vein of a "teen horror film" .Both Carpenter and Debra Hill The Fog is a 2005 horror film...
, in which she did her own stunts. The movie debuted at number one in its opening weekend in the United States and Canada. She also stars in the short film , produced by George Clooney
George Clooney
George Timothy Clooney is an American actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter. For his work as an actor, he has received two Golden Globe Awards and an Academy Award...
about an unusual medical condition.
Blair's next starring role was in the 2006 indie film The Night of the White Pants
The Night of the White Pants
The Night of the White Pants is a 2006 comedy drama film directed by Amy Talkington. It was shot on location in Dallas, Texas on digital video.-Plot outline:The film follows Max Hagan, a Dallas oil tycoon who is going through another rough divorce...
with Nick Stahl
Nick Stahl
Nicolas Kent "Nick" Stahl is an American actor. Starting out as a child actor, he gained recognition for his performance in the 1993 film The Man Without a Face and then embarked on a successful career as a child actor...
, and later she appeared in a small role in the comedy-drama The Alibi
The Alibi
The Alibi is a 2006 American film written by Noah Hawley and directed by Matt Checkowski and Kurt Mattila. The film was released to DVD on December 5, 2006 under the title Lies and Alibis.-Plot:...
.
In 2007 Blair took the lead role in Edward Burns
Edward Burns
Edward Fitzgerald Burns is an American actor, film producer, writer and director.-Early life:Burns was born in Woodside, Queens, New York, the son of Molly , a federal agency manager, and Edward J. Burns, a public relations spokesman and police officer. He was raised a Roman Catholic...
' Purple Violets
Purple Violets
Purple Violets is a relationship comedy written and directed by Edward Burns. It is an independent film, set in lower Manhattan, about four friends from college ready for change. It features Burns, Selma Blair, Patrick Wilson, and Debra Messing....
, a romantic comedy, alongside Burns, Patrick Wilson
Patrick Wilson (actor)
Patrick Joseph Wilson is an American actor and singer. Wilson has spent years singing lead roles in major Broadway musicals, beginning in 1996. In 2003, he appeared in the HBO mini-series Angels in America...
and Debra Messing
Debra Messing
Debra Lynn Messing is an American actress, voice artist, and comedienne. She is perhaps best known for her role as Grace Adler in the NBC sitcom Will & Grace and as Molly Kagan in the mini-series The Starter Wife....
, which was premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival
Tribeca Film Festival
The Tribeca Film Festival is a film festival founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro and Craig Hatkoff in a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the consequent loss of vitality in the TriBeCa neighborhood in Lower Manhattan.The mission of the festival...
and was the first feature film to debut on the iTunes Store
ITunes Store
The iTunes Store is a software-based online digital media store operated by Apple. Opening as the iTunes Music Store on April 28, 2003, with over 200,000 items to purchase, it is, as of April 2008, the number-one music vendor in the United States...
, She played a lonely writer who falls in love with her childhood sweetheart. She then appeared in the horror thriller WΔZ opposite Stellan Skarsgård
Stellan Skarsgård
Stellan John Skarsgård is a Swedish actor, known internationally for his film roles in Angels & Demons, Breaking the Waves, The Hunt for Red October, Ronin, Good Will Hunting, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist,...
, playing a medical student victim of sexual assault avenging her mother's murder. The film was well-received by critics. She also appeared in Feast of Love
Feast of Love
Feast of Love is a 2007 American drama film directed by Robert Benton, starring Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear, Radha Mitchell, Billy Burke and Selma Blair...
featuring Greg Kinnear
Greg Kinnear
Gregory "Greg" Kinnear is an American actor and television personality who first rose to stardom in 1991. He has appeared in more than 20 motion pictures, and was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in As Good as It Gets.-Early life:Kinnear was born in Logansport, Indiana, the son of...
and Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman is an American actor, film director, aviator and narrator. He is noted for his reserved demeanor and authoritative speaking voice. Freeman has received Academy Award nominations for his performances in Street Smart, Driving Miss Daisy, The Shawshank Redemption and Invictus and won...
, playing a woman tired of being ignored in her marriage.
Blair was included in the list of People magazine's "World's Most Beautiful People 2007".
In 2008 she again played Liz Sherman
Liz Sherman
Elizabeth 'Liz' Sherman is a fictional character appearing in the Hellboy comic book series created by Mike Mignola.-Fictional character history:...
in Hellboy II: The Golden Army, in this sequel, her character was much more extensive and influential in the plot of the movie, for which she was nominated for the Scream Awards
Scream Awards
The Scream Awards is an award show dedicated to the horror, sci-fi, and fantasy genres of feature films. Originally only having Scream Queen and Heroic Performance awards for actors, the personnel awards have expanded to include actors and actresses of all three recognized genres. In addition,...
for Best Actress in a Fantasy Movie or TV Show, the film ranked First at the Box-office in the United States, Canada and many other countries.
Later she returned to indie film territory and portrayed a drugged out abusive mother in Lori Petty
Lori Petty
Lori Petty is an American film and television actress best known for playing "Tyler Endicott" in Point Break in 1991, "Kit Keller" in A League of Their Own in 1992, and the title role in Tank Girl in 1995.-Early life:...
's The Poker House opposite Jennifer Lawrence
Jennifer Lawrence
Jennifer Shrader Lawrence is an American film and television actress. She has had lead roles in TBS's The Bill Engvall Show and in the independent films The Burning Plain and Winter's Bone, for which she received critical acclaim and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress...
, which is based on true events and is set in 1976, the film receiving generally favorable reviews from critics. Blair also worked with Antonio Banderas
Antonio Banderas
José Antonio Domínguez Banderas , better known as Antonio Banderas, is a Spanish film actor, film director, film producer and singer...
and Meg Ryan
Meg Ryan
Margaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra , professionally known as Meg Ryan, is an American actress and producer. Raised in Bethel, Connecticut, Ryan began her acting career in 1981 in minor roles, before joining the cast of the CBS soap opera As the World Turns in 1982...
in the adventure comedy My Mom's New Boyfriend
My Mom's New Boyfriend
My Mom's New Boyfriend is a 2008 romantic comedy film starring Colin Hanks, Antonio Banderas, Selma Blair, and Meg Ryan. The film received a limited theatrical release worldwide however it was released straight-to-DVD in the United States on June 17, 2008...
where she played a young FBI detective.
Blair was included in Glamour's The 50 Most Glamorous Women of 2008.
From 2008-2009, Blair accepted the titular role in the TV series Kath & Kim
Kath & Kim (U.S. TV series)
Kath & Kim is an American version of the Australian television comedy series of the same name starring Selma Blair and Molly Shannon. The series premiered on NBC on October 9, 2008...
, opposite Molly Shannon
Molly Shannon
Molly Helen Shannon is an American comic actress best known for her work as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1995–2001 and for starring in the films Superstar and Year of the Dog. More recently, she starred in NBC's Kath & Kim from 2008–2009 and on the TBS animated series Neighbors from...
based on the Australian television series of the same name about a mother and daughter who are obsessed with celebrity culture, Blair plays Kim, a self-absorbed suburban young princess, who is forced to reassess her relationship with her mother. Blair also appeared with Rainn Wilson
Rainn Wilson
Rainn Dietrich Wilson is an American actor and comedian. He is primarily known for his role as the egomaniacal Dwight Schrute on the American version of the television comedy The Office...
singing a Christmas carol (Baby, It's Cold Outside) for an extensive Christmas commercial campaign.
In 2009, she returned to the stage, and take the lead role as Kayleen in Rajiv Joseph
Rajiv Joseph
Rajiv Joseph is an American playwright and a 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist who occasionally has been confused with a substandard dentist of similar name....
's Gruesome Playground Injuries, which had its world premiere at Houston's Alley Theatre
Alley Theatre
The Alley Theatre is a Tony Award-winning indoor theatre in Downtown Houston, Texas, and hosts two stages. The "Hubbard" is the main stage with seating for 824; the more intimate "Neuhaus" seats 310. Nine towers and open-air terraces give the Alley Theatre a castle-like quality. Inside, a staircase...
. The work talks about why people hurt themselves emotional and physically to win love and attention. The play was premiered with positive reviews in Texas.
Blair also appeared in a supporting role as a seductive teacher in the black comedy
Black comedy
A black comedy, or dark comedy, is a comic work that employs black humor or gallows humor. The definition of black humor is problematic; it has been argued that it corresponds to the earlier concept of gallows humor; and that, as humor has been defined since Freud as a comedic act that anesthetizes...
The Family Tree with Madeline Zima
Madeline Zima
Madeline Rose Zima is an American actress. She is mostly known for her six years as Grace Sheffield on the TV series The Nanny or more recently as Mia Lewis on the Showtime dramedy Californication and as Gretchen Berg on Heroes.-Early life:Zima was born in New Haven, Connecticut, to Marie and...
, which was officially released in U.S. theaters on August 26, 2011.
In 2010, Blair had the lead in the indie thriller Columbus Circle
Columbus Circle (film)
Columbus Circle is an upcoming independent thriller film directed by George Gallo and co-written by Gallo and Kevin Pollak. The film stars Selma Blair, Giovanni Ribisi, Beau Bridges, Amy Smart, Jason Lee, and Kevin Pollak.-Plot:...
, featuring Amy Smart
Amy Smart
Amy Lysle Smart is an American television and film actress and former fashion model.-Early life:Smart was born in Topanga, California. Her mother, Judy Lysle , worked at a museum, and her father, John Boden Smart, was a salesman...
, she portrayed a reclusive heiress who is brought face to face with her fears when a detective shows up to investigate a homicide. Blair promoted the film in its market premiere on November 3rd, 2011 at the 32nd American Film Market
American Film Market
The American Film Market is a film industry event held each year at the beginning of November in Santa Monica, California. About 8,000 people attend the eight day event to network and to sell and acquire films...
, which took place in Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, US. Situated on Santa Monica Bay, it is surrounded on three sides by the city of Los Angeles — Pacific Palisades on the northwest, Brentwood on the north, West Los Angeles on the northeast, Mar Vista on the east, and...
.
Selma Blair also appeared again in a music video, this time with Elijah Wood
Elijah Wood
Elijah Jordan Wood is an American actor. He made his film debut with a minor part in Back to the Future Part II , then landed a succession of larger roles that made him a critically acclaimed child actor by age 9. He is best known for his high-profile role as Frodo Baggins in Peter Jackson's...
in Danko Jones
Danko Jones
Danko Jones is a Canadian rock band from Toronto, Ontario. The band consists of Danko Jones and JC...
´ spy story Full of Regret and she starred as a funny pregnant girl in three episodes of the on line television series Web Therapy
Web Therapy
Web Therapy is an improvised online television series starring Emmy award winning actress Lisa Kudrow as Fiona Wallice, a therapist who has conceived of a new form of therapy: the titular "web therapy".-Synopsis:...
starring Friends star Lisa Kudrow
Lisa Kudrow
Lisa Valerie Kudrow is an American actress, best known for her role as Phoebe Buffay in the television sitcom Friends, for which she received many accolades including an Emmy Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards...
.
In the same year Blair appeared as a guest-judge in Heidi Klum
Heidi Klum
Heidi Samuel , better known by her birth name Heidi Klum, is a German model, actress, television host, businesswoman, fashion designer, television producer, and occasional singer. In 2008 she became an American citizen while maintaining her native German citizenship...
's fashion reality show Project Runway
Project Runway
Project Runway is an American reality television series on Lifetime Television, previously on the Bravo network, which focuses on fashion design and is hosted by model Heidi Klum. The contestants compete with each other to create the best clothes and are restricted in time, materials and theme...
.
Blair later starred the trailer shot for Jamie Foxx
Jamie Foxx
Eric Marlon Bishop , professionally known as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, singer-songwriter, stand-up comedian, and talk radio host. As an actor, his work in the film Ray earned him the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Actor as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a...
's drama project "Tommy's Little Girl", where she plays a psychologically traumatized orphan girl who will grow up to become an attorney by day, and a deadly killer by night.
Blair is responsible for lending her voice to a document of The Holocaust
The Holocaust
The Holocaust , also known as the Shoah , was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews and millions of others during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi...
, The Diary of Anne Frank
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl is a book of the writings from the Dutch language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The family was apprehended in 1944 and Anne Frank ultimately died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen...
" in audiobook format, for which she was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children
Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children
The Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children was an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for works containing quality "spoken word" performances aimed at children...
category.
In 2011 Blair appeared as guest-star in the episode "Blunderbuss" of the TV series Portlandia
Portlandia (TV series)
Portlandia is a television series that debuted on the Independent Film Channel on January 21, 2011. The show, produced by Andrew Singer and Jonathan Krisel, is set and filmed both in and near Portland, Oregon and features Saturday Night Live cast member Fred Armisen as well as Carrie Brownstein, a...
. Blair has recently filmed the short film Animal Love which was premiered at the 2011 Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films
Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films
The Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films held annually in Palm Springs, California is the largest film festival for short films in the United States....
, and also stars in the comedy-short subject The Break-In directed by Jaime King
Jaime King
Jaime King is an American actress and model. In her modeling career and early film roles, she used the names Jamie King and James King, which was a childhood nickname given to King by her parents, because her agency already represented another Jaime — the older, then more famous model Jaime...
for Atom Films
Atom Films
Atom.com is a broadband entertainment network offering original short subject films, animations, and series by independent creators...
Entertainment.
Selma Blair's upcoming projects include the World War I drama Four Saints based on the novel Angels in Flanders, where she play the lead role and portrays an heroic nurse, she also take the lead in the cross-cultural comedy-drama "Different Kind Of Love" with Richard Dreyfuss
Richard Dreyfuss
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss is an American actor best known for starring in a number of film, television, and theater roles since the late 1960s, including the films American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Goodbye Girl, Whose Life Is It Anyway?, Stakeout, Always, What About...
, recently the film won two awards for Best Comedy-Drama Screenplay and Best Special Mention Screenplay at the Angel Film Awards in Monaco.
Blair also will star in the home invasion thriller Replicas where she portrays a mother trying to enjoy some quality time with her family when things go horribly wrong, and she stars in the comedy-drama Dark Horse
Dark Horse (2011 film)
Dark Horse is an upcoming film written and directed by Todd Solondz planned for release in late 2011.-Plot:Based on news reports and a press release from October 2010, the film is about Abe, a 30-something male living with his parents, reluctantly working for his father while pursuing his hobby of...
with Christopher Walken
Christopher Walken
Christopher Walken is an American stage and screen actor. He has appeared in more than 100 movies and television shows, including Joe Dirt, Annie Hall, The Deer Hunter, The Prophecy trilogy, The Dogs of War, Sleepy Hollow, Brainstorm, The Dead Zone, A View to a Kill, At Close Range, King of New...
and Mia Farrow
Mia Farrow
Mia Farrow is an American actress, singer, humanitarian, and fashion model.Farrow first gained wide acclaim for her role as Allison Mackenzie in the soap opera Peyton Place, and for her subsequent short-lived marriage to Frank Sinatra...
, where she plays an immature troubled woman in arrested development in search of success. Blair promoted the film in its world premiere at the 68th Venice Film Festival
Venice Film Festival
The Venice International Film Festival is the oldest international film festival in the world. Founded by Count Giuseppe Volpi in 1932 as the "Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica", the festival has since taken place every year in late August or early September on the island of the...
on September 5th, 2011, and at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival
Toronto International Film Festival
The Toronto International Film Festival is a publicly-attended film festival held each September in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2010, 339 films from 59 countries were screened at 32 screens in downtown Toronto venues...
on September 11th. The film is scheduled for market premiere in November 2011 at the 32nd American Film Market
American Film Market
The American Film Market is a film industry event held each year at the beginning of November in Santa Monica, California. About 8,000 people attend the eight day event to network and to sell and acquire films...
, which will take place in Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, US. Situated on Santa Monica Bay, it is surrounded on three sides by the city of Los Angeles — Pacific Palisades on the northwest, Brentwood on the north, West Los Angeles on the northeast, Mar Vista on the east, and...
.
Personal life
Blair married Ahmet ZappaAhmet Zappa
Ahmet Emuukha Rodan Zappa is an American musician, actor and novelist.-Early life:Ahmet was born in Los Angeles, California, the third of four children born to businesswoman Adelaide Gail Sloatman and musician Frank Zappa. Ahmet's father was of Sicilian, Greek-Arab and French descent and his...
in January, 2004 at Carrie Fisher
Carrie Fisher
Carrie Frances Fisher is an American actress, novelist, screenwriter, and lecturer. She is most famous for her portrayal of Princess Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy, her bestselling novel Postcards from the Edge, for which she wrote the screenplay to the film of the same name, and her...
's mansion in Beverly Hills, California. She filed for divorce at the Los Angeles Superior Court on June, 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”.
On January 14, 2011, Blair's representative announced that she is expecting her first child with her boyfriend, fashion designer Jason Bleick, according to People Magazine: "They couldn't be happier. Her life right now is a dream come true".
On July 25, 2011, Selma Blair gave birth to a baby boy named Arthur Saint. A representative for the actress tells People magazine that the little one weighed in at 7 lbs., 12 oz while delivered at a Los Angeles hospital.
Selma Blair is known to follow new style and fashion trends in addition to her radical hairstyle changes, and she is a frequent guest-star at New York Fashion Week
New York Fashion Week
The semi-annual New York Fashion Week, branded Mercedes-Benz FashionWeek in 2009, is held in February and September of each year in New York City. It is one of four major fashion weeks held around the world .-History:The first New York Fashion Week, then called Press Week, was the world's first...
and other fashion events.
Blair enjoys child and animal care and has practiced horseback riding since age 17; Wink, her dog since her beginnings in the acting industry, died in February 2011. She also collects black and white photographs and practices Ice skating
Ice skating
Ice skating is moving on ice by using ice skates. It can be done for a variety of reasons, including leisure, traveling, and various sports. Ice skating occurs both on specially prepared indoor and outdoor tracks, as well as on naturally occurring bodies of frozen water, such as lakes and...
.
Blair's charity work and causes include Marc Jacobs
Marc Jacobs
Marc Jacobs is an American fashion designer. He is the head designer for Marc Jacobs, as well as Marc by Marc Jacobs, a diffusion line, with more than 200 retail stores in 60 countries. He has been the creative director of the French design house Louis Vuitton since 1997...
' Skin Cancer Awareness Campaign, H&M
H&M
H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB is a Swedish retail-clothing company, known for its fast-fashion clothing offerings for women, men, teenagers and children....
's Fashion Against AIDS 2011 Campaign, Children's Action Network hosted by Stella McCartney
Stella McCartney
Stella Nina McCartney is an English fashion designer. She is the daughter of former Beatles member Sir Paul McCartney and the late photographer and animal rights activist, Linda McCartney.-Early life:...
, AmFAR AIDS Research 2011, Staying Alive Foundation and National Multiple Sclerosis Society
National Multiple Sclerosis Society
The National Multiple Sclerosis Society, a United States-based non-profit organization, and its network of chapters nationwide promote research, educate, advocate on issues relating to multiple sclerosis, and organize a wide range of programs, including support for the newly diagnosed and those...
.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Pretzel Cart | ||
| 1996 | Brain Candy Brain Candy Brain Candy is a feature film by The Kids in the Hall, a Canadian comedy troupe. Directed by Kelly Makin, filmed in Toronto, and released in 1996, it followed the five season run of their television series, which had been successful in both Canada and the United States.The five man team plays all... |
Girl at rock concert | |
| 1997 | Strong Island Boys | Tara | |
| 1997 | Gone Again | Ayla | |
| 1997 | Arresting Gena | Drugged woman | |
| 1997 | Two in the Morning | Shea | |
| 1997 | In & Out In & Out In & Out is a 1997 American romantic comedy film directed by Frank Oz and starring Kevin Kline, Joan Cusack, Matt Dillon, Tom Selleck, Debbie Reynolds, Bob Newhart, and Wilford Brimley. The screenplay was written by screenwriter Paul Rudnick... |
Cousin Linda | |
| 1997 | Scream 2 Scream 2 Scream 2 is a 1997 American slasher film created and written by Kevin Williamson and directed by Wes Craven, starring Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Jamie Kennedy and Liev Schreiber, released on December 12, 1997 as the second installment in the Scream film series... |
Cici's Friend on Phone | Uncredited |
| 1998 | Brown's Requiem | Jane | |
| 1998 | Girl Girl (film) Girl is a 1998 American drama film starring Dominique Swain, Christopher Masterson, Sean Patrick Flanery, Summer Phoenix, Tara Reid, John Philbin and Selma Blair. It was based on the novel of the same name, written by Blake Nelson. It was written by Blake Nelson and David E... |
Darcy | |
| 1998 | Can't Hardly Wait Can't Hardly Wait Can't Hardly Wait is a 1998 American teen comedy film written and directed by Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont. It stars Ethan Embry, Charlie Korsmo, Lauren Ambrose, Peter Facinelli, Seth Green, and Jennifer Love Hewitt, and is notable for a number of "before-they-were-famous" appearances by various... |
Girl Mike Hits On #1 | |
| 1998 | Debutante | Nan | |
| 1999 | Cruel Intentions Cruel Intentions Cruel Intentions is a 1999 American drama film starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon, and Selma Blair. The film is an adaptation of the 18th-century French epistolary novel Les Liaisons dangereuses by Laclos and is set among wealthy teenagers living in modern New York... |
Cecile Caldwell | |
| 2000 | Down to You Down to You Down to You is a 2000 romantic comedy film about losing a first love. It was directed by Kris Isacsson. The main characters are Alfred 'Al' Connelly Imogen and Cyrus... |
Cyrus | |
| 2001 | Kill Me Later Kill Me Later Kill Me Later is a 2001 film directed by Dana Lustig and starring Selma Blair and Max Beesley; it also features Brendan Fehr and Keegan Connor Tracy.-Synopsis :Blair plays Shawn, a suicidal loan officer at a bank.... |
Shawn Holloway | |
| 2001 | Storytelling Storytelling (film) Storytelling is a 2001 film, directed by Todd Solondz. It features original music by Belle & Sebastian, later compiled on an album of the same name... |
Vi | |
| 2001 | Legally Blonde Legally Blonde Legally Blonde is a 2001 American comedy film directed by Robert Luketic, written by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith, and produced by Marc E. Platt... |
Vivian Kensington | |
| 2002 | Highway | Cassie | |
| 2002 | Jane Burns | ||
| 2003 | Karen | ||
| 2003 | Dallas 362 Dallas 362 Dallas 362 is a 2003 film, starring and directed by Scott Caan. This film was Caan's debut as a director.The movie won the Critics Award at the 2003 CineVegas International Film Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada.-Plot:... |
Peg | |
| 2004 | Hellboy Hellboy (film) Hellboy is a 2004 supernatural superhero film, starring Ron Perlman, John Hurt and Selma Blair, directed by Guillermo del Toro. The film is based on the Dark Horse Comics work Hellboy: Seed of Destruction by Mike Mignola. It was produced by Revolution Studios, and distributed by Columbia Pictures... |
Liz Sherman Liz Sherman Elizabeth 'Liz' Sherman is a fictional character appearing in the Hellboy comic book series created by Mike Mignola.-Fictional character history:... |
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| 2004 | Caprice Stickles / Ursula Udders | ||
| 2004 | In Good Company | Kimberly | |
| 2005 | Pretty Persuasion Pretty Persuasion Pretty Persuasion is a 2005 American black comedy/satirical film about a 15-year-old schoolgirl who makes an allegation of sexual harassment against her drama teacher. The film's tagline is: "Revenge knows no mercy." It was written by Skander Halim and directed by Marcos Siega... |
Grace Anderson | |
| 2005 | Abbey Gallagher | ||
| 2005 | Stevie Wayne | ||
| 2005 | Alice | Short subject | |
| 2006 | Adelle | ||
| 2006 | Chlorine | Elise | Suspended |
| 2006 | Beth Hagan | ||
| 2007 | Purple Violets Purple Violets Purple Violets is a relationship comedy written and directed by Edward Burns. It is an independent film, set in lower Manhattan, about four friends from college ready for change. It features Burns, Selma Blair, Patrick Wilson, and Debra Messing.... |
Patti Petalson | |
| 2007 | WΔZ | Jean Lerner | |
| 2007 | Suspended | ||
| 2007 | Feast of Love Feast of Love Feast of Love is a 2007 American drama film directed by Robert Benton, starring Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear, Radha Mitchell, Billy Burke and Selma Blair... |
Kathryn Smith | |
| 2008 | My Mom's New Boyfriend My Mom's New Boyfriend My Mom's New Boyfriend is a 2008 romantic comedy film starring Colin Hanks, Antonio Banderas, Selma Blair, and Meg Ryan. The film received a limited theatrical release worldwide however it was released straight-to-DVD in the United States on June 17, 2008... |
Emily Lott | |
| 2008 | Sarah | ||
| 2008 | Hellboy II: The Golden Army | Liz Sherman | |
| 2009 | Ms. Delbo | Released until 2011 | |
| 2010 | Full of Regret Below The Belt (Danko Jones album) Below The Belt is the fifth studio album by Canadian hard rock band Danko Jones. It was released on May 11, 2010 in Canada and May 18 in the US.- Track listing :# "I Think Bad Thoughts" - 3:31# "Active Volcanoes" - 3:35# "Tonight Is Fine" - 4:20... |
Katt | Music video for Danko Jones Danko Jones Danko Jones is a Canadian rock band from Toronto, Ontario. The band consists of Danko Jones and JC... |
| 2010 | Columbus Circle Columbus Circle (film) Columbus Circle is an upcoming independent thriller film directed by George Gallo and co-written by Gallo and Kevin Pollak. The film stars Selma Blair, Giovanni Ribisi, Beau Bridges, Amy Smart, Jason Lee, and Kevin Pollak.-Plot:... |
Abigail | |
| 2011 | Animal Love | Sorrel | Short Subject |
| 2011 | Different Kind of Love | Camilla | |
| 2011 | Dark Horse Dark Horse (2011 film) Dark Horse is an upcoming film written and directed by Todd Solondz planned for release in late 2011.-Plot:Based on news reports and a press release from October 2010, the film is about Abe, a 30-something male living with his parents, reluctantly working for his father while pursuing his hobby of... |
Miranda ('Vi') | |
| 2011 | Replicas | Mary | |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Penelope Ghiruto | 1 episode | |
| 1997 | Amazon High | Cyane | |
| 1997 | Soldier of Fortune, Inc. Soldier of Fortune, Inc. Soldier of Fortune, Inc. was a television show created by Dan Gordon which ran for two seasons, from 1997-1999... |
Tish August | 1 episode |
| 1997 | No Laughing Matter | Lauren Winslow | Television movie |
| 1998 | Getting Personal | Receptionist | Premiere episode |
| 1998 | Promised Land | Carla Braver | 1 episode |
| 1999–2000 | Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane is an American teen sitcom starring Selma Blair, David Moscow, Michael Rosenbaum, and Azura Skye that premiered in 1999 on The WB network... |
Zoe Bean | 24 episodes |
| 2000 | Xena: Warrior Princess Xena: Warrior Princess Xena: Warrior Princess is an American–New Zealand supernatural fantasy adventure series that aired in syndication from September 4, 1995 until June 18, 2001.... |
Cyane | 1 episode |
| 2002 | Friends Friends Friends is an American sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994 to May 6, 2004. The series revolves around a group of friends in Manhattan. The series was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television... |
Wendy | Episode: "The One with Christmas in Tulsa" |
| 2003 | Coast to Coast Coast to Coast (TV film) Coast to Coast is 2003 television movie starring Richard Dreyfuss, Judy Davis, and Selma Blair, and directed by Paul Mazursky. It is based on the novel by Frederic Raphael, who also wrote film's screenplay... |
Stacey Pierce | Television movie |
| 2004 | DeMarco Affairs | Kate DeMarco | |
| 2006 | Hellboy: Sword of Storms | Liz Sherman (Voice) | Television movie |
| 2007 | Hellboy: Blood and Iron | Liz Sherman (Voice) | Television movie |
| 2008–2009 | Kath & Kim Kath & Kim (U.S. TV series) Kath & Kim is an American version of the Australian television comedy series of the same name starring Selma Blair and Molly Shannon. The series premiered on NBC on October 9, 2008... |
Kim | 18 episodes |
| 2010 | Project Runway Project Runway Project Runway is an American reality television series on Lifetime Television, previously on the Bravo network, which focuses on fashion design and is hosted by model Heidi Klum. The contestants compete with each other to create the best clothes and are restricted in time, materials and theme... |
Herself (guest judge) | 1 episode |
| 2010 | Web Therapy Web Therapy Web Therapy is an improvised online television series starring Emmy award winning actress Lisa Kudrow as Fiona Wallice, a therapist who has conceived of a new form of therapy: the titular "web therapy".-Synopsis:... |
Tammy Hines | 2 episodes |
| 2011 | Portlandia Portlandia (TV series) Portlandia is a television series that debuted on the Independent Film Channel on January 21, 2011. The show, produced by Andrew Singer and Jonathan Krisel, is set and filmed both in and near Portland, Oregon and features Saturday Night Live cast member Fred Armisen as well as Carrie Brownstein, a... |
Frannie Walker | 1 episode |
| 2011 | The Break-In | Beverly | Web Comedy-Short |
Awards and nominations
| Year | Award | Result | Category | Title of work |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Teen Choice Awards Teen Choice Awards The Teen Choice Awards, are an annual awards show that air on the Fox cable channel, that honor the year's biggest biggest achievements in music, movies, sports, television, fashion and more, voted by teen viewers aged 14 through 17. Winners receive an authentic full size surfboard designed with... |
Nominated | TV – Breakout Performance | Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane |
| 2002 | Teen Choice Awards | Nominated | Film – Choice Actress, Comedy | |
| 2000 | MTV Movie Awards MTV Movie Awards The MTV Movie Awards is a film awards show presented annually on MTV . It also contains movie parodies that used official movie footage with hosts and other celebrities and music performances. The nominees are decided by producers and executives at MTV. Winners are decided online by the general... |
Nominated | Breakthrough Female Performance | Cruel Intentions |
| 2000 | MTV Movie Awards | Won | Best Kiss | Cruel Intentions (Shared with Sarah Michelle Gellar Sarah Michelle Gellar Sarah Michelle Prinze , known professionally by her birth name of Sarah Michelle Gellar , is an American actress, singer and executive producer... ) |
| 2000 | Young Hollywood Awards | Won | Exciting New Face – Female | |
| 2002 | Young Hollywood Awards | Won | Next Generation | |
| 2003 | DVD Exclusive Awards DVD Exclusive Awards The DVD Exclusive Awards is an award that honors direct to video productions. The awards were first held in 2001. They are awarded by online periodical Video Business and The Digital Entertainment Group.... |
Nominated | Best Actress | Highway |
| 2011 | Grammy Award Grammy Award A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry... |
Nominated | Best Spoken Word Album – Children | The Diary of Anne Frank |