Selma Blair biography

Selma Blair Biography

Selma Blair is a beautiful American actress which has play in a lot of movie. She became a famous female celebrity. Selma Blair was born June 23, 1972 with name 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 in Farmington Hills and Cranbrook Kingswood school in Bloomfield Hills. She studied at Kalamazoo College from 1990–92, then transferred to the University of Michigan, where she earned her bachelor's degree in 1994. She also studied with Stella Adler.

After training at The Stella Adler Conservatory, pretty dark-haired actress Selma Blair began her career with a series of small roles on film and television. In 1997 she appeared in small roles in the features "In & Out" and "Arresting Gena", and had a larger part in the independent "Strong Island Boys". The following year, Blair acted in the series premiere of the Fox comedy "Getting Personal" and had a featured guest role in the CBS drama "Promised Land" as a troubled teenager with a drinking problem. She appeared in the 1998 USA Network TV-movie "No Laughing Matter" before landing a role in the ensemble of the teen comedy feature "Can't Hardly Wait" (1998).




Blair had her first starring film role in the thriller "Brown's Requiem" (1998), the little seen adaptation of crime writer James Ellroy’s first novel, and was chosen to head the cast of the coming-of-age midseason replacement series "Zoe, Duncan, Jack & Jane" (The WB, 1999-2000), playing Zoe Bean, a witty and blunt Manhattan teenager. She was also tapped for the role of shy Cecile in "Cruel Intentions" (1999), a contemporary reworking of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" set in New York starring Sarah Michelle Gellar and Ryan Phillippe. Later, she was featured as Darcy in the music-themed straight-to-video release, "Girl" (also 1999). In 2001, she gave a memorable performance as an uptight Harvard Law student in the hit comedy "Legally Blonde". Then Blair created a stir as a college student who writes about a degrading sexual encounter with her Pulitzer Prize-winning professor in Todd Solondz's dark comedy, “Storytelling” (2002).








In 2003, she joined Jason Lee and Julia Stiles for the inept romantic comedy "A Guy Thing", in which she was a bride-to-be whose wild child cousin (Stiles) gives her fiancé (Lee) second thoughts. Typically cast as the girl who loses the boy in a romantic triangle, Blair changed course and became a leading lady in the comic book adaptation "Hellboy" (2004), playing Liz Sheridan, a paranormal investigator with formidable pyrotechnic power and the potential paramour for the film's demonic leading man (Ron Perlman). Less successful was her turn in John Waters' misfire "A Dirty Shame" (2004), for which she donned enormous fake prosthetic breasts to play an exotic dancer named Ursula Udders. In the critically-lauded corporate comedy-drama from Paul Weitz, “In Good Company” (2004), Blair played the wife of a young corporate hotshot (Topher Grace) who walks out on him and leaves him with nothing.

She next had a turn in the briefly released corporate thriller, “The Deal” (2005), playing a tree-hugging graduate student from Harvard asked by a an associate on a Wall Street (Christian Slater) to join his firm amidst an oil crisis with the Middle East. Then in the teen dark comedy “Pretty Persuasion” (2005), she was the wife of a high school drama school teacher (Ron Livingston) accused of sexual assault by three students with personal axes to grind. She also made a foray into horror with a leading role in the murky 2005 remake of the John Carpenter classic "The Fog."

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