Leighton Meester

Actor

Leighton Meester begain playing Blair, the haughty and not-so-nice frenemy, on the TV show Gossip Girl in 2007. Gossip Girl was based on the the popular book series about privileged teenagers at a fancy private school on the Upper East Side of New York City. Meester was already a TV veteran at age 21: she was 13 when she guest-starred on Law & Order (her first TV role). She followed that with appearances on 24 and many other TV shows, including a brief recurring role on Entourage as Justine Chapin, a teenybopper singer (2004). Meester was also a veteran model, having signed with the Wilhelmina agency in New York at age 11. Her feature films include the horror flick Hangman's Curse (2003), the off-kilter drama Flourish (2006), and the black comedy Drive-Thru (2007).