​Blair was born Selma Blair Beitner in Southfield, Michigan, the daughter of Molly Ann, a judge, and Elliot Beitner. She has three older sisters, Katherine (a book publicist), Elizabeth, and Marie. Blair attended Hillel Day School, a Jewish day school in Farmington Hills, Michigan, and Cranbrook Kingswood school in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. She attended Kalamazoo College in Michigan, then later transferred to the University of Michigan, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in 1994. After training at the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting, Blair began acting in the mid-90s. Blair began her career with small roles and guest roles in various television series. Blair appeared with co-stars Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Ryan Phillippe in the 1999 film Cruel Intentions , for which Blair won an MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss – Lesbian Kiss between Blair and co-star Gellar. Blair went on to star as Zoe Bean in two seasons of TV series Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane (1999-2000), She rejoined actress Reese Witherspoon in the comedy film Legally Blonde (2001). Later, Blair appeared in Highway (2002).
She also starred opposite Cameron Diaz and Christina Applegate in The Sweetest Thing and in two independent films that garnered her much critical acclaim: Dana Lustig’s Kill Me Later and Todd Solondz’s controversial Storytelling, and one of her most recognized roles, Liz Sherman in Hellboy (2004) and its successful sequel released in 2008, Hellboy II: The Golden Army based on the popular comic.
Other films include the political thiller The Deal, The Big Empty, Feast of Love (opposite Greg Kinnear and Morgan Freeman), Ed Burn’s Purple Violets and the horror thriller W?Z (opposite Stellan Skarsgard).
Blair starred opposite Molly Shannon in the TV series Kath & Kim, based on the Australian television series of the same name. Blair’s upcoming projects are Happy Together (2009), as Mrs. Delbo, Columbus Circle (2010) and Different Kind Of Love (2011) with Juliette Lewis .
Selma can also be seen in the My Friend Steve 1998 music video Charmed .
Her stage work includes the role of Kayleen in Rajiv Joseph’s Gruesome Playground Injuries, which had its world premiere at Houston’s Alley Theatre in October 2009.
Selma Blair Biography / Wiki
| Name | Selma Blair |
| Also Know | ΣÎλμα ΜπλεÏ, 셀마 ë¸”ë ˆì–´ |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Southfield, Michigan, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1972-06-23 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 50 |
| Deathday |
Selma Blair Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Purple Violets | Patti Petalson | 2007-04-30 | Patti Petalson is a promising writer, but her marriage and conventional job keep her from her dream. She longs to return to her writing, especially af… |
| Kill Me Later | Shawn Holloway | 2001-09-14 | Her goldfish dead, her lover exposed as a rat, Shawn Holloway leaves her bank post and goes to the roof intent on suicide. Before she can leap, she’s … |
| WΔZ | Jean Lerner | 2007-05-19 | There is something horribly wrong with the bodies found in the dark city streets. Some are mutilated while others have the Price equation (wΔz = Cov … |
| Storytelling | Vi | 2001-11-08 | College and high school serve as the backdrop for two stories about dysfunction and personal turmoil…. |
| Columbus Circle | Abigail | 2012-03-05 | An heiress who’s been shut inside her apartment building for nearly two decades is forced to confront her fears after one of her neighbors is killed a… |
| Mothers and Daughters | Rigby | 2016-05-06 | Interwoven stories of what it is to be a mom seen through the lens of photographer Rigby Gray…. |
| In Their Skin | Mary | 2012-11-09 | A couple and their young son retreat to their woodland vacation home, only to face sinister neighbors who intend to kill them and steal their identiti… |
| The Big Empty | Alice | 2005-07-01 | The Big Empty is a 2005 short film starring Selma Blair about a woman with an unusual condition that baffles scientists and everymen alike. It was wri… |
| The Broccoli Theory | Pretzel Cart Lesbian | 1996-01-05 | Unromantic comedy that follows the on again – off again relationship game of two hapless twenty something couples…. |
| Eva Hesse | Eva Hesse (voice) | 2016-04-27 | German American artist Eva Hesse (1936 – 1970) created her innovative art in latex and fiberglass in the whirling aesthetic vortex of 1960s New York… |
| Introducing, Selma Blair | Self | 2021-10-15 | In a quest to take control of her personal health, actor Selma Blair adapts to new ways of living while pursuing an experimental medical procedure, af… |
| Amazon High | Cyanne | 1997-01-01 | A high school teenager wakes up in a time of Amazons and Gods…. |
| Demarco Affairs | Kate DeMarco | 2004-12-31 | Romantic drama which tracks three sisters who run a wedding palace on Long Island that they have inherited from their bitterly divorced parents…. |
| The Deal | Abbey Gallagher | 2005-06-17 | A political thriller steeped in illegal oil trading, the Russian Mafia, and governmental cover-ups…. |
| Hellboy II: The Golden Army | Liz Sherman | 2008-07-11 | Hellboy must stop an elven prince from locating an ancient force that can destroy humanity: the all-powerful Golden Army…. |
| The Sweetest Thing | Jane Burns | 2002-04-12 | Christina’s love life is stuck in neutral. After years of avoiding the hazards of a meaningful relationship, one night while club-hopping with her gir… |
| Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron | Liz Sherman (voice) | 2007-03-10 | When Hellboy, Liz Sherman, and Abe Sapien are assigned to investigate the ghost-infested mansion of a publicity-hound billionaire, they uncover a plot… |
| Pretty Persuasion | Grace Anderson | 2005-01-22 | A 15-year-old girl incites chaos among her friends and a media frenzy when she accuses her drama teacher of sexual harassment…. |
| The Poker House | Sarah | 2008-06-20 | Agnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns…. |
| Brown’s Requiem | Jane | 1998-11-01 | Fritz Brown is an ex-LAPD, recovering alcoholic who now splits his time repossessing cars for a used car lot and staffing his one-man private detectiv… |
| Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms | Liz Sherman (voice) | 2006-10-28 | A folklore professor becomes unwittingly possessed by the ancient Japanese demons of Thunder and Lightning. But when The Bureau of Paranormal Research… |
| Highway | Cassie | 2002-03-26 | Jack is caught with the wife of his employer, a Vegas thug. The thug sends goons after Jack, who convinces his best friend, Pilot, to flee with him. P… |
| Dark Horse | Miranda | 2011-09-05 | Abe is a man who is in his thirties and who lives with his parents. He works regretfully for his father while pursuing his hobby of collecting toys. A… |
| Strong Island Boys | Tara | 1997-01-03 | Ari is a junior-high student who likes wrestling and lifting weights more than anything else. One day at a local park he and his friend Jeremy are bru… |
| Sex, Death and Bowling | Glenn McAllister | 2015-07-01 | Two brothers separated by one continent and two decades reunite when one of them becomes sick with cancer…. |
| Mom and Dad | Kendall Ryan | 2018-01-19 | In a suburban community, moms and dads, one after the other, mysteriously feel the irresistible impulse to attack and kill their own offspring…. |
| Debutante | Nan | 1998-09-01 | Nan, seventeen, wakes up alone in a motel room and wonders how she got there. The events of the preceding night come back to her on the subway ride ho… |
| Far More | Glenn McAllister | 2021-04-22 | Sean McAllister is a successful fashion designer who hasn’t seen his family in years. He returns to his hometown for a painstaking family reunion that… |
| The Fog | Stevie Wayne | 2005-10-14 | Trapped within an eerie mist, the residents of Antonio Bay have become the unwitting victims of a horrifying vengeance. One hundred years earlier, a s… |
| Hellboy | Liz Sherman | 2004-04-02 | In the final days of World War II, the Nazis attempt to use black magic to aid their dying cause. The Allies raid the camp where the ceremony is takin… |
| Down to You | Cyrus | 2000-01-21 | College coeds in New York City, Al, the son of a celebrity chef, and Imogen, a talented artist, become smitten the second they lay eyes on one another… |
| My Mom’s New Boyfriend | Emily Lock | 2008-04-30 | Henry Durand is a young federal agent who is given a difficult assignment: spy on his mother and her boyfriend who is suspected of leading a gang of a… |
| A Guy Thing | Karen Cooper | 2003-01-17 | Paul Morse is a good guy. When his friends throw him a wild bachelor party, he just wants to keep his conscience clean — which is why he’s shocked wh… |
| A Dirty Shame | Caprice Stickles | 2004-09-12 | Sylvia Stickles runs a convenience store with her husband and mother-in-law. One day, Sylvia is hit on the head and transforms from an uptight prude t… |
| The Alibi | Adelle | 2006-01-12 | Con man Ray Elliot decides to leave crime behind to start a company that sells fake alibis to clients who have been unfaithful to their significant ot… |
| No Laughing Matter | Lauren Winslow | 1998-04-01 | Emma is the bright, attractive and funny widowed mother of teen honor-student Charlie. She has a drinking problem that seemingly increases exponential… |
| Coast to Coast | Stacey Pierce | 2004-04-03 | Contemporary story of a couple whose marriage has gone astray, partly due to the infidelity of both partners and also the fact that their eldest son w… |
| The Night of the White Pants | Beth Hagan | 2006-04-27 | The patriarch of a distinguished but crumbling Dallas family is forced to hit the town with his daughter’s punk rock boyfriend…. |
| Cruel Intentions | Cecile Caldwell | 1999-03-05 | Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower their headmaster’s daughter before the summer ends. I… |
| Legally Blonde | Vivian | 2001-07-13 | Elle Woods, a fashionable sorority queen, is dumped by her boyfriend. She decides to follow him to law school, but while there, she figures out that t… |
| All the Dirt on ‘A Dirty Shame’ | Herself | 2005-06-14 | John Waters and the cast and crew of “A Dirty Shame” discuss sex addiction, sexual terms and all things relating to filth and perversions in Dreamland… |
| Ordinary World | Karen | 2016-10-14 | Perry is a happily married father of two living a comfortable but sedate life in the suburbs. On the occasion of his 40th birthday, he seeks to revisi… |
| A Dark Foe | Dr. Doris Baxter | 2021-07-30 | The plot follows a tortured FBI agent suffering from an irrational fear of darkness, as he investigates a mysterious former prostitute in order to cat… |
| Feast of Love | Kathryn Smith | 2007-09-28 | A meditation on love and its various incarnations, set within a community of friends in Oregon. It is described as an exploration of the magical, myst… |
| Girl | Darcy | 1998-11-05 | Andrea Marr is a bright, straight-A, mature, 18-year-old high school senior on the verge of womanhood who decides to abandon her sheltered, boring lif… |
| Kingdom Come | Herself | 2011-01-01 | The documentary, Kingdom Come follows a first-time director (Daniel Gillies) as he tries to raise a million dollars to finance his first film, Broken … |
| The Family Tree | Ms. Delbo | 2011-09-26 | A mother and wife stricken with memory loss allows a dysfunctional family a second chance at harmony and happiness…. |
| In Good Company | Kimberly | 2004-12-29 | Dan Foreman is a seasoned advertisement sales executive at a high-ranking publication when a corporate takeover results in him being placed under naiv… |
| After | Carol Young | 2019-04-11 | Tessa Young is a dedicated student, dutiful daughter and loyal girlfriend to her high school sweetheart. Entering her first semester of college, Tessa… |
| Dallas 362 | Peg | 2003-09-12 | Rusty (Shawn Hatosy) has been bailed out of bad situations more than once by his understanding but distraught mother, Mary (Kelly Lynch). When Mary st… |
| After We Collided | Carol Young | 2020-09-02 | Tessa finds herself struggling with her complicated relationship with Hardin; she faces a dilemma that could change their lives forever…. |
| Hellboy: The Seeds of Creation | Self | 2004-07-27 | A comprehensive look at the history of the Hellboy character from his comic book roots through to his movie debut…. |
| Hellboy: In Service of the Demon | Self | 2008-11-11 | The making of Hellboy II: The Golden Army… |
| In & Out | Cousin Linda | 1997-09-10 | A midwestern teacher questions his sexuality after a former student makes a comment about him at the Academy Awards…. |
| Scream 2 | Cici’s Friend on Phone | 1997-12-12 | Two years after the terrifying events that occurred in Woodsboro, Sidney is now attending Windsor College in Cincinnati, and Gale Weathers’ best selli… |
| Can’t Hardly Wait | Girl Mike Hits On #1 | 1998-06-12 | It’s graduation day at Huntington Hills High, and you know what that means – time to party. And not just any party, either. This one will be a night t… |
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