Blake Lively
Birthdate: Aug 25, 1987
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA
Blake Lively (birthname: Blake Ellender Brown) has carefully built an acting career on the big screen while having made her biggest impression as elegant Serena on the hit CW series, Gossip Girl (2007-2012). Lively technically made her big-screen debut in her director father Ernie Lively’s movie, Sandman (1998), but made her meaningful debut in Warner Bros.’ The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005), with Amber Tamblyn, America Ferrera, Alexis Bledel, Bradley Whitford, and Nancy Travis under Ken Kwapis’s direction, grossed a decent $42 million globally.
Lively joined the rowdy cast of the Steve Pink-directed comedy, Accepted (2006), with Justin Long, Anthony Heald, and Lewis Black. Then Lively was cast in the slasher movie, Simon Says (2006), written and directed by William Dear and starring Crispin Glover. Lively, after earning good reviews for her first co-starring role in the HBO-aired Elvis and Anabelle (2007) which premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival, revived her role as Bridget in the sequel, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008), with new cast members Shohreh Aghdashloo and Blythe Danner, grossing a mediocre $44.3 million worldwide for Warner Bros.
Blake Lively joined the anthology movie, New York, I Love You (2009), for a segment directed by Brett Ratner and co-starred Anton Yelchin, James Caan, and Olivia Thirlby, and then Lively portrayed the young Pippa in director-writer Rebecca Miller’s screen version of her novel, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009), starring Robin Wright, Alan Arkin, Maria Bello, Monica Bellucci, Julianne Moore, Keanu Reeves, and Winona Ryder, and premiering at the Berlin Film Festival.
Lively played major support in star/director/writer Ben Affleck’s Boston crime movie, The Town (2010), with Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm, Oscar-nominated Jeremy Renner, Titus Welliver, Pete Postlethwaite, and Chris Cooper, and grossing a strong $154 million (against $37 million costs), and then Lively co-starred with (future husband) Ryan Reynolds in her first superhero movie, the Martin Campbell-directed Green Lantern (2011), with Peter Sarsgaard, Mark Strong, Angela Bassett, and Tim Robbins, but losing money for Warner Bros. ($220 million gross).
Lively co-starred with Chloe Grace Moretz and Eddie Redmayne in the Vegas comedy-drama, Hick (2011), directed by Derick Martini, and co-starring Rory Culkin, Juliette Lewis, Ray McKinnon, Anson Mount, and Alec Baldwin, and premiering at the Toronto Film Festival before a release by Phase 4 Films.
Lively co-starred with Taylor Kitsch, Benicio del Toro, Aaron Johnson, Salma Hayek Pinault, and John Travolta in Oliver Stone’s feature version of co-writer Don Winslow’s crime novel, Savages (2012), returning a middling $83 million (on $45 million costs), and then Lively landed her first title starring role in the Lee Toland Krieger-directed fantasy romance, The Age of Adaline (2015), with Michiel Huisman, Kathy Baker, Harrison Ford, and Ellen Burstyn, grossing a fine $65.7 million for distributor Lionsgate and excellent reviews for Lively.
Blake Lively was star of Columbia Pictures’ shark thriller, The Shallows (2016), directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and released by Sony Pictures Releasing to a potent $119 million gross, followed by Lively cast by Woody Allen in his comedy-drama, Café Society (2016), co-starring Jeannie Berlin, Steve Carell, Jesse Eisenberg, Parker Posey, Kristen Stewart, Corey Stoll, and Ken Stott, premiering at the Cannes Film Festival and released by Amazon Studios/Lionsgate with $44 million returns (on $30 million costs).
Lively co-stars with Jason Clarke of co-writer/director Marc Forster’s drama, All I See You (2016), which delivered a terrible box office ($678,000 gross against $30 million expenses) after a Toronto Film Festival premiere, and then Lively had perhaps her biggest artistic and commercial success to date as co-star (with Anna Kendrick) of producer-director Paul Feig’s dazzling crime comedy for Lionsgate, A Simple Favor (2018), with Henry Golding, Linda Cardellini, Rupert Friend, and Jean Smart, and grossing an excellent $97.6 million globally.
Lively and her performance was about the only element anyone appeared to like about Paramount Pictures’ widely lambasted Reed Moreno-directed thriller, The Rhythm Section (2020), with Jude Law and Sterling K. Brown, and bombing at the box office ($6 million take on $50 million costs). Lively then joined husband-star Ryan Reynolds on two back-to-back 2024 movies: as a voice on director/writer/producer/star John Krasinski’s underperforming fantasy comedy, IF, with Cailey Fleming, Fiona Shaw, Louis Gossett Jr., and Steve Carell; and then Lively appeared in the Marvel Comics sequel, Deadpool & Wolverine, co-starring Reynolds and Hugh Jackman reviving their title roles, with Emma Corrin, Morena Baccarin, Leslie Uggams, and Matthew Macfadyen.
Blake Lively was the star and executive producer of Columbia Pictures’ big-screen version of Colleen Hoover’s It Ends With Us (2024), with director and co-star Justin Baldoni, Jenny Slate, and Hasan Minhaj, and released by Sony Pictures Releasing. Lively revived her delicious co-starring role in Lionsgate’s untitled sequel to A Simple Favor (date to be announced), again co-starring Anna Kendrick and with Henry Golding and Allison Janney under Paul Feig’s direction and released by Amazon MGM Studios.
Lively partnered as lead with the acclaimed Hungarian filmmaking team of director Kornel Mundruczo and Kata Weber on the sci-fi drama, Proxy (date to be announced), and then Lively co-starred with Richard Gere, Diane Keaton, and Lin-Manuel Miranda in the rom-com, The Making Of (date to be announced), written by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick
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Personal Details
Blake Lively was born in Los Angeles and raised in the Los Angeles suburbs of Tarzana and Burbank, by parents Ernie (actor) and Elaine (talent scout). Lively has one brother, Eric, and three half-siblings, Robyn, Lori, and Jason. Lively graduated from Burbank High School in 2005, where she was class president, cheerleader, and choir member, but resisted an acting career with intention of attending Stanford University.
Lively’s college plans were interrupted by being cast in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005) when she was 17 years old between her junior and senior high school years. Lively was in a relationship with her Gossip Girl co-star Penn Badgley from 2007 to 2010. Lively has been married to Ryan Reynolds since 2012; the couple has four children. Lively’s height is 5’ 10”. Lively’s estimated net worth is $30 million.
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- 2024 | It Ends with UsasLily Bloom
It Ends with Us
When a woman's first love suddenly reenters her life, her relationship with a charming, but abusive neurosurgeon is upended and she realizes she must learn to rely on her own strength to make an impossible choice for her future.
- 2024 | Deadpool & WolverineasLady Deadpool
Deadpool & Wolverine
Deadpool is offered a place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe by the Time Variance Authority, but instead recruits a variant of Wolverine to save his universe from extinction.
- 2024 |
- 2020 | The Rhythm SectionasStephanie Patrick
The Rhythm Section
A woman seeks revenge against those who orchestrated a plane crash that killed her family.
- 2018 | A Simple FavorasEmily Nelson
A Simple Favor
Stephanie is a single mother with a parenting vlog who befriends Emily, a secretive upper-class woman who has a child at the same elementary school. When Emily goes missing, Stephanie takes it upon herself to investigate.
- 2017 | All I See Is YouasGina
All I See Is You
A blind woman's relationship with her husband changes when she regains her sight and discovers disturbing details about themselves.
- 2016 | The ShallowsasNancy
The Shallows
A mere 200 yards from shore, surfer Nancy is attacked by a great white shark, with her short journey to safety becoming the ultimate contest of wills.
- 2015 | The Age of AdalineasAdaline Bowman
The Age of Adaline
A young woman, born at the turn of the 20th century, is rendered ageless after an accident. After many solitary years, she meets a man who complicates the eternal life she has settled into.
- 2012 |
- 2010 |
Some Facts About Blake Lively
Foodie: Blake Lively has practiced intense interest in food, ranging from attending classes at Paris’ Le Cordon Blue, baking cakes with Martha Stewart, creating cupcakes for Sprinkles bakeries, designing her home kitchen oven, showing on Vogue’s website how to make a brie pastry, and launching two lines of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks.
Teetotaller: Lively also has noted that she doesn’t drink and has never used drugs.
Swiftie: Blake Lively (with husband Ryan Reynolds) is close friends with Taylor Swift, with whom she directed, produced, and co-wrote Swift’s 2021 video, “I Bet You Think About Me.”.
