Blake Lively in Gossip Girl

Blake Lively plays Serena van der Woodsen in the hitthough and it was not until later in life that she
television show, Gossip Girl. Serena is slim andrealized this desire.
ethereally beautiful; she is admired by every other girlAs a child she was homeschooled and ironically, one
in the show. She is very intelligent, but she is toldof her home school classmates was actor Penn
often that she is not working to her full potential. SheBadgley, who plays her love interest on the television
lives in the Upper East Side of Manhattan and comesseries. Blake Lively went to Burbank High School in
from a family that is very prominent in New YorkBurbank, California where she was in the National
society. She plays a very modest yet beautiful girlShow Choir. She was very popular in high school, just
who is sought after by many guys in the show. Sheas she is in Gossip Girl and she was senior class
is a true romantic and is swept off her feet by Danpresident as well as a cheerleader. All through high
Humphrey, the lower middle class classmate fromschool Lively had plans to attend Stanford University,
Brooklyn.but the summer between her junior and senior year,
The real life of Blake Lively is not that far from theher brother had his agent send her out on a few
character she portrays on the series. She was born inauditions. She only went on two auditions, but in one
Tarzana, California and is the youngest of fiveof them she landed her very first acting role as
children. Both her parents were actors and all of herBridget in the film, The Sisterhood of the Traveling
siblings have acted at one point as well. They are aPants. She actually did very well in her film debut and
very talented family and are well known in the actingwon a Teen Choice Award nomination for the Choice
world. Lively did not always want to be an actressMovie Breakout Female.