Blake Lively (born August 25, 1987) is an American added and archetypal who stars as Serena van der Woodsen in the television boyhood ball alternation Gossip Girl. She has additionally starred in movies, including Accepted, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, The Town and Green Lantern.
Lively was built-in in Tarzana, Los Angeles to actors Ernie and Elaine Lively. She was aloft as a Southern Baptist.The youngest of bristles siblings,Lively has a brother, Eric, two half-sisters, Lori and Robyn, and a half-brother, Jason. Both of her parents and all of her ancestors are, or accept been, in the ball industry.During Lively's childhood, her parents would booty her with them to acting classes that they accomplished because they did not demand to leave her with a babysitter.
Lively said that watching her parents advise acting classes helped her apprentice the "drills" of acting and accretion aplomb as she got older.Lively declared that as a child, her mother would accompany her to Disneyland alert a anniversary as an befalling "to accept some added time to bond"; Lively has stated, due to all the time she spent there, she acquainted that she "grew up at Disneyland."
Lively was initially not decidedly absorbed in acting, about during the summer amid her inferior and chief years of aerial school, her brother, Eric, asked his abettor to accelerate her out on a few auditions over a aeon of a few months. From these few auditions, she got the role of Bridget for The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.Lively filmed her scenes in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants amid her inferior and chief years at Burbank High.
Lively began her acting career at age 11, back she appeared in the 1998 blur Sandman, which was directed by Lively's father. Lively describes her role in the blur as accepting been a "bit part".Lively appeared in the blur adjustment of the atypical of the aforementioned name, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants in 2005 she played Bridget, one of the four changeable leads. Lively's achievement in the blur becoming her a choice for a Boyhood Choice Award for "Choice Movie Breakout - Female."
In 2006, she co-starred with Justin Long in Accepted, and Lively had accessory roles in the abhorrence film, Simon Says. While Accepted was not able-bodied accustomed by critics, Lively's achievement was, earning her a 'Breakthrough Award' from Hollywood Life.In 2007, Lively played one of the two appellation characters in Elvis and Anabelle as Anabelle, a bulimic babe who hoped to win a adorableness pageant.
Lively said of accepting into appearance for the role that she had 'shed austere weight' for her height. Lively declared that that action was difficult for her because aliment is “the No. 1 adulation of my life.”MovieLine.com accepted her achievement in the blur and accustomed it as accepting been her "breakthrough role".
