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Selma Blair - Biography |
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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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Selma Blair - Personal Quotes |
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On husband Ahmet Zappa's
noteworthy proposal: "I said, 'I need something to make sure that
this is real,' a Ferrari or something, and so he gave me a
highlighter pen. It was a yellow highlighter pen. ... He told me
that his father, Frank Zappa, had asked his mother to marry him with
a pen". |
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Selma Blair - Filmography |
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The Listening Party (2008)
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) .... Liz Sherman
My Mom's New Boyfriend (2008) .... Emily
Hellboy: The Science of Evil (2007) (VG) (voice) .... Liz Sherman
Feast of Love (2007) .... Kathryn
Waz (2007) .... Jean Lerner
Purple Violets (2007) .... Patti Petalson
Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron (2007) (TV) (voice) .... Liz
Sherman
Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms (2006) (TV) (voice) .... Liz
Sherman
The Night of the White Pants (2006) .... Beth Hagan
The Alibi (2006) .... Adelle
... aka Lies & Alibis (USA)
... aka Lies and Alibis (USA)
The Big Empty (2005) .... Alice
The Fog (2005) .... Stevie Wayne
... aka Brouillard, Le (Canada: French title)
The Deal (2005) .... Abbey Gallagher
Pretty Persuasion (2005) .... Grace Anderson
In Good Company (2004) .... Kimberly
A Dirty Shame (2004) .... Caprice Stickles
Hellboy (2004) .... Liz Sherman
... aka Super Sapiens (Malaysia: English title)
DeMarco Affairs (2004) (TV) .... Kate DeMarco
Dallas 362 (2003) .... Peg
A Guy Thing (2003) .... Karen Cooper
Coast to Coast (2003) (TV) .... Stacey Pierce
"Friends" .... Wendy (1 episode, 2002)
- The One with Christmas in Tulsa (2002) TV episode .... Wendy
The Sweetest Thing (2002) .... Jane Burns
Highway (2002/I) .... Cassie
Legally Blonde (2001) .... Vivian Kensington
Storytelling (2001) .... Vi ('Fiction')
Kill Me Later (2001) .... Shawn Holloway
"Zoe, Duncan, Jack & Jane" .... Zoe Bean (24 episodes, 1999-2000)
... aka Zoe (Australia) (USA: new title)
... aka Zoe... (USA: promotional abbreviation)
- Three Years Later (2000) TV episode .... Zoe Bean
- Party Girls (2000) TV episode .... Zoe Bean
- Too Much Pressure (2000) TV episode .... Zoe Bean
- My Dinner with Andy (2000) TV episode .... Zoe Bean
- Tall, Dark and Duncan's Boss (2000) TV episode .... Zoe Bean
(19 more)
"Xena: Warrior Princess" .... Cyane (1 episode, 2000)
... aka Xena (Australia)
- Lifeblood (2000) TV episode .... Cyane
Down to You (2000) .... Cyrus
Cruel Intentions (1999) .... Cecile Caldwell
Debutante (1998) .... Nan
... aka Modern Girl (International: English title)
Can't Hardly Wait (1998) .... Girl Mike Hits On #1
Girl (1998) .... Darcy
No Laughing Matter (1998) (TV) .... Lauren Winslow
"Promised Land" .... Carla Braver (1 episode, 1998)
... aka Home of the Brave
- Designated Driver (1998) TV episode .... Carla Braver
Brown's Requiem (1998) .... Jane 'Janie' Baker
Scream 2 (1997) (voice) (uncredited) .... Cici's Friend on Phone
"Soldier of Fortune, Inc." .... Tish August (1 episode, 1997)
... aka S.O.F. Special Ops Force (USA: second season title)
... aka S.O.F., Inc.
... aka SOF, Inc.
- La Mano Negra (1997) TV episode .... Tish August
In & Out (1997) .... Cousin Linda
Arresting Gena (1997) .... Drugged Woman
Amazon High (1997) (TV) .... Cyane
Two in the Morning (1997) .... Shea
Gone Again (1997) .... Ayla
Strong Island Boys (1997) .... Tara
Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy (1996) .... Girl at rock concert
... aka Brain Candy (USA: short title)
... aka Kids in the hall: La pilule du bonheur (Canada: French
title)
... aka Pilule du bonheur, La (Canada: French title: short title)
The Broccoli Theory (1996) .... Pretzel Cart Lesbian
"The Adventures of Pete & Pete" .... Penelope Ghiruto (1 episode,
1995)
... aka Pete and Pete (USA: short title)
- Das Bus (1995) TV episode .... Penelope Ghiruto |
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Selma Blair - Related Links |
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Wikipedia: Selma Blair
YouTube: Selma Blair
Selma Blair at Babemania.com
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