1. Selma Blair was born on Selma Blair Beitner on June 23,1972 and is an American actress.
53 Facts About Selma Blair
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Selma Blair is known for her roles in Cruel Intentions, Legally Blonde, The Sweetest Thing, and the Hellboy franchise.
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Selma Blair initially pursued photography at Kalamazoo College before moving to New York to become involved in the arts, graduating from the University of Michigan.
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Selma Blair's autobiography, Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up, was published by Knopf in 2022.
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Selma Blair Beitner was born on June 23,1972, in the Detroit suburb of Southfield, Michigan, the youngest of four daughters of Molly Ann and Elliot I Beitner.
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Selma and her sister Elizabeth officially changed their surname to 'Blair'; in her memoir, Blair wrote that, following a concerted effort on the part of her father's girlfriend to derail her career, she did not speak to her father for 12 years.
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Selma Blair attended Hillel Day School in Farmington Hills, and Cranbrook Kingswood in Bloomfield Hills.
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Selma Blair then spent two years studying photography at Kalamazoo College.
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At age 21, Selma Blair moved to New York City, where she lived at The Salvation Army.
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Selma Blair then returned to New York City to pursue a career in the arts.
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Selma Blair considered it a failure, but her English teacher told her not to give up; that was the first time she thought she could be an actress.
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In 1993 in New York, an agent discovered her in an acting class and Selma Blair signed with her.
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Selma Blair auditioned six times for the role and remained on-set for several weeks, but most of her scenes were cut from the film's final version.
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Selma Blair then won the lead in the 1997 fantasy film Amazon High.
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Selma Blair was considered for the role of Joey Potter in Dawson's Creek, a role which ultimately went to Katie Holmes.
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Selma Blair subsequently appeared in several independent and short productions, including the award-winning Debutante.
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Selma Blair achieved her breakthrough in the 1999 coming-of-age drama Cruel Intentions.
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In 2000, following her performance in the teen comedy Down to You, Selma Blair won the Young Hollywood Award for "Exciting New Face".
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In 2000 and 2002, Selma Blair was included in Vanity Fairs "Hollywood's Next Wave of Stars" issues.
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Selma Blair co-starred in the 2001 hit comedy Legally Blonde, portraying a preppy, snobby law student; The Hollywood Reporter found her to be a "strong presence" in her role.
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Selma Blair next starred as a college student having an affair with her professor in the 2001 independent drama Storytelling.
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In 2004, Selma Blair took on the role of Liz Sherman, a depressed pyrokinetic superhero, in Guillermo del Toro's blockbuster fantasy film Hellboy, co-starring Ron Perlman.
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From 2005 to 2007, Selma Blair appeared in a string of independent films.
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Selma Blair was nominated for the Scream Awards for Best Actress in a Fantasy Movie or TV Show.
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In 2008, Selma Blair starred as a drug-addicted and alcoholic mother in Lori Petty's independent drama The Poker House.
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In 2009, Selma Blair returned to the stage, when she took on the lead role of Kayleen in Rajiv Joseph's Gruesome Playground Injuries.
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In 2010, Selma Blair she lent her voice to narrate the audiobook of The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition, originally written by Holocaust victim Anne Frank.
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Selma Blair's performance received a 2011 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children nomination.
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In 2012, Selma Blair returned to television as the female lead with the premiere of FX's Anger Management, co-starring Charlie Sheen.
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Selma Blair starred in 53 episodes as Dr Kate Wales, Sheen's neurotic therapist and love interest.
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Selma Blair left the show in June 2013, during the shooting of the second season, due to disagreements with Sheen, who fired her via text message.
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In 2012, Selma Blair narrated Xfinity TV commercials, including the London 2012 Olympics ads.
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The pilot was not picked up but, in February 2016, Blair co-starred in the FX miniseries American Crime Story: The People vs O J Simpson.
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In October 2012, Selma Blair starred in the political satire sketch The Woman for Romney, about the campaign proposals of Mitt Romney, former Republican Party nominee for the 2012 United States presidential election.
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In 2018, Selma Blair was cast in a recurring role on the Netflix science-fiction drama series Another Life; it ran from 2019 to 2021 before being canceled.
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In September 2022, Selma Blair became a contestant on season 31 of Dancing with the Stars but left in the fifth week of the competition because of her deteriorating health.
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Selma Blair is known for her fashion-forward style, and for her frequent radical hairstyle changes.
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Selma Blair lent her image to the Marc Jacobs-Brian Bowen Smith clothing line, and has worked with several other fashion designers, including Karen Zambos, Martin Margiela, Isaac Mizrahi, Reinaldo Herrera, and Stella McCartney.
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Selma Blair was featured in the 2002 Pirelli Calendar, and, in 2005, appeared in The New York Times Magazine award-winning photography gallery, "The Selma Blair Witch Project: Fall's Dark Silhouettes Have a Way of Creeping Up on You" by the art photographer Roger Ballen, at the Palau Robert in Barcelona in 2012.
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Selma Blair appeared with Rainn Wilson singing "Baby, It's Cold Outside" for the 2008 Gap winter ad campaign, and was included in Glamour's list of the 50 Most Glamorous Women of 2008.
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In 2010, Selma Blair posed with Demi Moore and Amanda De Cadenet for a spread in Harper's Bazaar magazine.
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Selma Blair has appeared on covers and photo spreads of other magazines, including CR Fashion Book magazine in February 2016.
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Selma Blair has been the face of fashion houses Chanel, Miu Miu and GAP.
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Selma Blair presented parts of the collection of Christian Siriano at a celebration of his 10th stage anniversary at Masonic Hall during New York Fashion Week 2018.
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On January 24,2004, Selma Blair married writer and producer Ahmet Zappa at Carrie Fisher's mansion in Beverly Hills, California.
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Selma Blair has dated actors Jason Schwartzman and David Lyons and, from 2008 to 2010, dated her Kath and Kim co-star Mikey Day.
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In 2010, Selma Blair began dating fashion designer Jason Bleick; they have a son, Arthur Saint Bleick.
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In October 2018, Selma Blair revealed that she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in August of that year.
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On May 27,2012, Selma Blair was a special guest at the National Memorial Day Concert at the US Capitol in Washington, DC.
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Selma Blair was included as one of the Silence Breakers selected as the 2017 Time Person of the Year.
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In June 2022, Selma Blair became chief creative officer of Guide Beauty, a company which creates cosmetic products for those with mobility challenges.
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In October 2023, Selma Blair expressed support for Israel in the Gaza war.
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In September 2024, Selma Blair again expressed support for Israel and the hostages taken by Hamas, and said that Gaza was being run by "Jihadists, the radicals, the extreme" and "terrorists".