Born into show business, Blake Lively preferred cheerleading over acting until she played Bridget in 2005's The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. The offers poured in, including one for the high school comedy Accepted, for which Blake Lively eventually received a Hollywood Life Breakthrough Award.
It's been onwards and upwards ever since for Blake Lively. She's Serena on TV's Gossip Girl, for which she won a pair of 2008 Teen Choice Awards, and she played Bridget again in a Sisterhood sequel. She also hammed it up as a transsexual partyer alongside James Franco in a memorable skit on Saturday Night Live. Blake Lively is hitting her stride as an actress and a babe. Besides her movie and television pursuits, she appeared on the cover of various magazines, including NYLON, Cosmopolitan and Lucky. Her projects aren't the most male-accessible entertainment, but it was hard not to notice this blond beauty, especially in her pro-Obama pitch during election season.
In addition to her continued television work, 2009 will see Blake Lively in more guy-friendly projects like the short-film compilation New York, I Love You (featuring Kevin Bacon) and the Keanu Reeves-Robin Wright Penn drama The Private Lives of Pippa Lee. We can't wait.