Blake Lively

Lively was named Breakthrough Performer of the Year at CinemaCon 2011. She starred opposite Ryan Reynolds in Green Lantern. Prior to that, she starred alongside Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner and Ben Affleck in The Town, which Affleck also directed. She also starred in Hick, opposite Alec Baldwin, Juliette Lewis and Chloë Grace Moretz.

Lively first gained the attention of critics and audiences with her first starring role in the 2005 hit The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, for which she earned a Teen Choice Award nomination for Choice Movie Breakout Performance—Female. In 2008, she reprised her role in the sequel, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2.

Lively's additional film credits include the comedy Accepted, with Justin Long and Jonah Hill; the independent feature Elvis and Anabelle, for which she won the Newport Beach Film Festival Achievement Award for Breakout Performance; and the indie drama The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, in which she starred with Keanu Reeves, Robin Wright, Julianne Moore and Alan Arkin for writer/director Rebecca Miller.

On the small screen, Lively is best known for her starring role on the popular CW Television Network series Gossip Girl. In 2011, she became the face of Chanel's Mademoiselle handbag advertising campaign.

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