Blake Lively Biography, Age, Height, Parents, Husband, Kids, Movies & Net Worth

Blake Lively is an American actress who stepped into the spotlight during her junior year of high school when she landed a major role in the 2005 blockbuster “chick flick” The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Two years later, Lively landed her most famous role to date on the CW’s hit teen drama Gossip Girl. Since Gossip Girl ended in 2012, Lively has starred in films such as The Age of Adaline, The Shallows, and A Simple Favor. She is currently married to actor Ryan Reynolds.

She is also renowned for her role as Serena van der Woodsen in the CW drama series ‘Gossip Girl’, which went strongly for six seasons straight. She comes from a family deeply rooted in the entertainment industry. She bagged the role of Bridget in the blockbuster movie ‘The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants’ by just showing her picture at the auditioning. She cemented her place in Hollywood with films like ‘Accepted’, ‘The Private Lives of Pippa Lee’, ‘The Town’, ‘Green Lantern’, ‘Savages’, ‘The Age of Adaline’ and ‘The Shallows’. She is also a successful model who has been the face of famous brands like L’Oreal and Gucci.

Lively has already been nominated for numerous awards in her short career so far and has won many of them. Known as a celebrity homemaker for her love for cooking and interior decoration, Lively has performed in various cooking workshops and has appeared in magazines featuring her cooking equipment and dishes.

Wiki/Biodata

Birth Name	Blake Ellender Brown
Nick Name	Blake Lively
Age	(as in 2023) 36 Years
Religion	Baptism
Sun Sign/Zodiac Sign	Virgo
Birth Place	Tarzana, Los Angeles, California, USA
Date of Birth	25 August 1987
Nationality	American
Residence	Bedford, New York
Home Town	Tarzana, Los Angeles, California, USA
Hobbies	Swimming, Interval training, Cooking and Baking
Family
Mother’s Name	Elaine (née McAlpin) (Talent Manager)
Father’s Name	Ernie Lively (né Ernest Wilson Brown, Jr.) (Actor)
Brother	Eric Lively (Older Brother) (Actor) Jason Lively (Older Half Brother) (Actor)
Sister	Lori Lively (Older Half Sister) (Actress) Robyn Lively (Older Half Sister) (Actress)
Boyfriends/Affairs/ Marital Status and More
Affairs/Boyfriends	1. Kelly Blatz (2004-2007) 2. Penn Badgley (2007-2010) 3. Ryan Gosling (October 2010) 4. Leonardo DiCaprio (2011) 5. Ryan Reynolds (2011-September, 2012)
Husband/Spouse	Ryan Reynolds
Marriage Date	9 September 2012
Marriage Place	Near Charleston, South Carolina.
Children	Son- James Reynolds Daughter- Inez Reynolds
Education
School	Burbank High School, Burbank, California, USA until 2005.
College/University	When she was not confirmed about taking acting as a career, Lively wanted to attend Stanford University.
Educational Qualification	Not Known
Profession	Model, actress, celebrity homemaker
Brands Endorsed	Gucci Fragrance (2012)
Career Manager	Management 360
Height, Weight, and Figure Measurements
Height (Approx.)	in Feet/Inches 5 ft 10 in in centimeter 178 cm in meter 1.78 m
Weight (Approx.)	in Kilogram 63 kg in Pounds 139 pounds
Figure Measurements
Breast Size	35 Inches
Hips Size	36 Inches
Waist Size	28 Inches
Extra Ordinary Features
Race / Ethnicity	White
Hair Color	Blonde
Eye Color	Blue
S*xual Orientation	Straight
Dress Size	10 (US)
Shoe Size	8 (US)
Fitness
Personal Trainer	Bobby Strom
Diet Habits	1. She also ate lean proteins in the form of egg whites, fish / turkey breast. 2. She ate almonds, avocado and extra virgin olive oil for healthy fats. 3. She drank lots of water. 4. She ate low carbohydrates in the form of quinoa. 5. She reduced salts, sugars and ate smaller and regular meals. 6. She kept a cheat day (on that day you can eat whatever you want) for herself to eat her favorites like cheese, chocolate, ice-creams.
Favourite Things
Favourite Food	Sprinkles’ Red Velvet Cupcakes, pizza, pasta
Favourite Music	Ray Charles, Britney Spears, and Justin Timberlake
Favourite Places	New York, Paris
Favorite Bands	Chet Baker, Billie Holiday, Edith Piaf, Nina Simone, Florence and the Machine
Favorite Movies	The Wizard of Oz (1939), Breathless (1959)
Favorite Perfume	Burberry The Beat
Favorite Clothing	Jeans, Tube Top, Heels
Favorite Holiday Destination	Hilton Waikoloa Village on the Big Island in Hawaii
Favorite Brands	Marc Jacobs, Phillip Lim, Chloé, Chanel
Favorite Beauty Products	Tarte lip gloss, Chanel foundation, Kérastase hair products star style
Favorite Style Icons	Audrey Hepburn and Kate Moss
Controversies	The Café Society star uploaded a side-by-side image of herself on the Cannes red carpet in a figure-hugging n*de gown, one shot of herself from the front, the other from behind. She captioned the image: “L.A face with an Oakland booty”.

Blake Lively was born on August 25, 1987, in Los Angeles, California, to a show business family. Her mother, Elaine Lively (née McAlpin), is an acting coach and talent manager, and her father, Ernie Lively (born Ernest Wilson Brown, Jr.), is an actor and teacher. Her brother is actor Eric Lively, and her half-siblings are actors Lori Lively, Robyn Lively, and Jason Lively. She followed her parents’ and siblings’ steps.

Before moving to Los Angeles to pursue their show business careers, Lively’s parents lived in Georgia, and the household always maintained its Southern influences. “I have a tight-knit Southern family,” she says. “So whenever I tell people I’m from L.A., they say, ‘Yeah, but you don’t count,’ I guess because of the Southern values I was raised with, and the way I eat – the more sugary and cheesy and fried, the better.”

Lively began the first grade when she was only three years old. Her six-year-old brother was so afraid about beginning first grade alone that her mother told the school that Blake (who was extremely tall for her age) was also six years old so that she could follow him.

“After a few weeks,” Lively remembers, “they said they would have to put me in mentally handicapped classes because I wasn’t up to pace with the rest of the kids. They thought that I was slow because all I wanted to do was sleep while the other kids were doing their projects.”

After getting that early, if perhaps ill-advised, jump on her primary education, Lively attended an astounding 13 different schools by the time she graduated from grade school. She finally completed Burbank High School, where she stood out in both her academics and her extracurricular activities.

Besides receiving stellar grades in her AP coursework, Lively was a cheerleader, class president, and member of her school’s show choir.

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Blake Lively Net Worth and Salary

Blake Lively is an American actress and model who has a net worth of $20 million dollars. In 2007 she was cast in the CW series Gossip Girl, based on the book series of the same name by Cecily von Ziegesar. The show premiered in September 2007. Blake would go on to appear in 121 episodes of the show between 2007 and 2012. At her peak, she earned a salary per episode of $60,000.

Her first magazine cover was the November 2007 issue of Cosmo Girl. In 2011, she has featured in the annual TIME magazine’s 100 Influential People named her The Most Desirable Woman of 2011. People magazine named her one of 2012’s Most Beautiful at Every Age.

Movies and TV Shows

Despite strong pressure from her older siblings to ditch school and embark on an acting career, Lively initially revealed no interest in acting. Instead, she had her own dreams of appearing at Stanford University. Nevertheless, noticing her star potential, her older brother Eric relentlessly pressed her to try auditioning. “He was trying to get me to make life decisions at 15!” she recalls.

He then began reaching agents and telling them about his beautiful, talented younger sister. “I was really busy at school,” Lively remembers, “and I would have these agents calling and saying, ‘We have an interview for you.’ It was really hard to say no because I didn’t want to make my brother upset.”

‘The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants’

During her junior year of high school, at the age of 17, Lively finally agreed to join a few auditions. She found nearly prompt success. After only a few months of auditioning, she landed a major role in the 2005 blockbuster “chick flick” The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, which filmed during the summer between her junior and senior years at Burbank High. Her work earned her a Teen Choice Award nomination for Breakout Movie Star.

‘Gossip Girl’ Fame

After filming Traveling Pants, Lively returned to Burbank for her senior year and graduated in 2005. After completing her diploma, she directly returned to acting, starring Justin Long and Jonah Hill in the 2006 comedy Taken.

A year later, in 2007, Lively landed her most famous role to date on the CW’s hit teen drama Gossip Girl. The show follows a cohort of powerful teenagers on New York’s Upper East Side, with Lively playing the lead role of Serena van der Woodsen, a stylish blonde and somewhat renovated party girl.

Strengthened by intense media coverage, including a provocative and controversial photoshoot in Rolling Stone magazine, Gossip Girl rapidly evolved a cult-like fan base. Its young and beautiful cast became nearly ubiquitous on celebrity magazine covers and websites. The fashion-forward show, and Lively’s character in unusual, also had enormous influence over style trends.

In a case of onscreen romance creating real-life love, in 2007, Lively began dating Gossip Girl co-star Penn Badgley, who played her character’s on-again, off-again flame, Dan Humphrey. However, Lively and Badgely broke up in 2010. Lively won the 2008 Teen Choice Award for TV Actress and TV Breakout Star for her work. Gossip Girl aired its final episode in December 2012.

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‘The Town,’ ‘Green Lantern’

With her overwhelming good looks, natural acting talent, and dedicated backing from Gossip Girl fans, Lively seemed to be on the verge of smashing out as a top-flight movie star. In a January 2010 profile, Esquire called Lively “the most promising and interesting and talented young actress of the year.” She exhibited a rougher side in her role as a young mother in Ben Affleck’s crime thriller The Town that same year. Both the film and Lively’s performance drew broad critical acclaim.

The following year, Lively co-starred with Ryan Reynolds in the film Green Lantern, a big-screen take on the classic comic book series. While the movie confirmed to be a demanding and commercial blow, the on-screen pairing of Lively and Reynolds translated into a real-life romance.

‘The Age of Adaline,’ ‘A Simple Favor’

In 2015, Lively starred in the romantic vision The Age of Adaline, in which she played a woman who, as a result of a freak hazard, hasn’t aged beyond 29 years. She went on to headline the horror shark film The Shallows (2016), before playing a woman who departs without an explanation in Paul Feig’s 2017 comedy-thriller, A Simple Favor, opposite Anna Kendrick. Lively then took on the role of a dispossessed assassin in the 2020 action-drama The Rhythm Section.

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Marriage to Ryan Reynolds and Children

After they started dating in 2011, Lively and Reynolds rapidly became indivisible. They purchased a home together in upstate New York, in April 2012. Regulating to keep their plans hidden from the media, the pair married in a special ceremony on September 9, 2012, near Charleston, South Carolina. About 70 guests showed up the couple’s nuptials held at Boone Hall Plantation.

Lively’s friend, singer Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine, performed at the reception. Before dating and marrying Reynolds, she had been previously associated with actor Leonardo DiCaprio. In December 2014, Reynolds and Lively received their first child, a daughter they named James.

In September 2016, the couple celebrated the birth of their second daughter, Ines. In May 2019, Lively disclosed that she was expecting the couple’s third child when she debuted her baby bump while walking the red carpet at the opening of Reynolds’ film Pokémon: Detective Pikachu.

Keeping personal matters under wraps once again, she gave birth that summer, although the news wasn’t disclosed until early October.

Facts About Blake Lively

1. Blake Lively began her acting career at the age of 11.
2. Blake has 4 siblings. She is the youngest of 5 children.
3. Lively appeared in the music video for The Lonely Island’s “I Just Had S*x” together with Jessica Alba in December 2010.
4. All of her family members have been/are in the film industry.
5. As a kid, she used to go with her parents to acting classes.
6. In 2005, she acted in “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” when she was in school.
7. Blake has a crossbreed Maltese / Poodle dog.
8. Lively was voted no. 4 in Maxim’s Hot 100 Women list in 2010.
9. She once said, “My whole family is in the business. My whole family is crazy”.
10. In 2011, she appeared in the annual TIME magazine’s 100 Influential People.
11. She was ranked no. 1 in AskMen’s Most Desirable Women of 2011.
12. She was on the People magazine’s list for 2012’s Most Beautiful at Every Age.

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