Leighton Meester Biography

Actor

Leighton Meester begain playing Blair Waldorf, the haughty schemer and frenemy on the TV show Gossip Girl, in 2007. Gossip Girl was based on the the popular book series about privileged, backstabbing, love-hungry prep school teens on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. 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, House, and many other TV shows. She raised her profile with a brief recurring role on Entourage in 2004 as Justine Chapin, a teenybopper singer in the Britney Spears mode. 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).