Blake Lively

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With an actor-director father, acting coach mother, two brothers in the business and a childhood spent on sets, it was only a matter of time before this beach babe gravitated toward an audition. Her dad cast her as a tooth fairy at 10 in Sandman, which never had a theatrical release, but it was booking one of the four leads in 2005’s Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants while still in high school (where she was student body president and a cheerleader) that sent her on her way to stardom. The buzz surrounding another book adaptation, this time for the small screen in 2007, cemented her celebrity status. She played Serena van Der Woodsen, a wild and privileged New York it girl on Gossip Girl for six seasons on the CW and spent her hiatuses making movies like the Sisterhood sequel, The Town with Ben Affleck, Green Lantern and Savages. Vanity Fair declared her part of Hollywood’s “New Wave” alongside Kristen Stewart and Amanda Seyfried and Karl Lagerfeld chose her personally to be a Chanel spokesperson. Her love life has been just as star-studded as her resume as she spent time canoodling her GG love interest Penn Badgley, Ryan Gosling and Leonardo DiCaprio. Weeks after calling it quits with DiCaprio, she visited Lantern hero Ryan Reynolds on a set in Boston in October 2011. They bought a house together in mid-2012 and exchanged vows on a South Carolina plantation in secret in the fall that same year.