Blake Lively Biography

Fast Facts

• Named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in 2011
• Won a 2010 National Board of Review Award for Best Acting by an Ensemble for "The Town․"
• All of her immediate family is involved in the entertainment industry in some way: her parents taught acting classes, her mom was a talent manager, and her siblings are actors and actresses
• Married actor Ryan Reynolds in 2012
• Acted in her first role at the age of 10 in the 1998 film "Sandman," which was directed by her father
• Initially reluctant to become an actress, she was convinced by her brother Eric after he set up auditions for her through his agent
• Quote: "I look at anything in life like as long as you do what you believe in, then it's going to work out․ Because even if other people don't like what you're doing, you're happy because you did what you believed in․"
• Quote: "It's interesting because as actors we're in a position where we can go and experience other peoples' lives a little bit - even if it's just a drop of what it is․"
• Was voted "Class Clown" by her classmates during high school
• Got lifestyle guru Martha Stewart to plan her entire 2012 wedding
• Was the only actual teenager in the main cast of 2005's "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants," which she filmed between her junior and senior years of high school