Blake Lively has been best known for her role in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, in which she worked alongside Alexis Bledel (Gilmore Girls), Amber Tamblyn (Joan of Arcadia), and future Ugly Betty star America Ferrera. Lately however, you've probably been seeing Lively's face on posters and billboards all over the place, promoting her new series Gossip Girl, airing on the CW. Given the amount of attention the show is getting and the young and passionate audience it's aimed at, it seems very likely that the charismatic Lively is on the cusp of much greater stardom.
Lively plays the lead on Gossip Girl, Serena van der Woodsen, a teenage girl who has just moved back to her privileged life on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, after leaving under rather mysterious circumstances some time ago. Based on the popular series of books of the same name, and produced by The O.C. creator Josh Schwartz and another O.C. alum, Stephanie Savage, Gossip Girl is a fun look at the, well, gossipy lives of these young and beautiful people, whose lives are obsessively tracked by an unseen blogger (voiced by Kristen Bell). Serena's the girl at the center of it all, but she's become less than enamored with her previous party girl ways and is looking to start over again.
