- Born
- Birth nameLeighton Marissa Meester
- Height5′ 5″ (1.65 m)
- Leighton Marissa Meester was born in Fort Worth, Texas, to Constance Lynn (Haas) and Douglas Jay Meester. Although born in Texas, Meester spent her early years in Marco Island, Florida with her grandparents. There, she became involved with the local playhouse and made her stage debut in a production of "The Wizard of Oz".
She moved to New York with her mother at the age of 11 and was soon working as a model and appearing in TV commercials. A few years later, at age 14, she and her mother moved again, this time to Los Angeles, where she began to pick up TV work, making her debut in Disciple (1999).
A steady stream of TV work followed, and in 2007 she landed the role of Blair Waldorf in Gossip Girl (2007), which made her famous. This led to more TV and movie roles. In 2009, she launched a recording career with the single, "Somebody to Love".
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- SpouseAdam Brody(February 15, 2014 - present) (2 children)
- ChildrenArlo Day Brody
- ParentsConstance Lynn Meester (Haas)Douglas Jay Meester
- RelativesDouglas Logan Meester(Sibling)Lex Meester(Sibling)
- Big doe eyes
- Her mother served a federal prison sentence for her involvement in a drug ring that smuggled marijuana from Jamaica to the US in 1983. She was able to give birth to Leighton in a hospital and nursed her for three months in a halfway house, before returning to complete the 16 months left on her sentence. At this time, Leighton's grandparents cared for her.
- In March 2010 she met Adam Brody while filming The Oranges (2011) and later they started dating. In November 2013, they got engaged. The couple was married in a private ceremony on 2/15/2014.
- Is a natural blonde, but dyed her hair brunette for the role of Blair Waldorf in Gossip Girl (2007).
- Is fluent in French.
- Mother, with husband Adam Brody, of daughter Arlo Day Brody (b. 8/4/2015).
- I don't want to do drugs. I don't want to have to start over a million times. I want to have an abundance of good things in my life, and I want it to spread out evenly -- I don't want it to come and go.
- I want to do so many things -- and maybe someday a lot of it will be impossible, but right now I don't see the impossible.
- My mom lived through a lot before I was born, and I can't judge her on that. She and my dad are good people. Look, I could've turned out a lot worse.
- I was picked on because I was a four-eyes and a dork. We didn't have a ton of money so I couldn't say, "Mom, I need to have these crazy expensive jeans." I had long tangled hair and wore hemp necklaces, baggy T-shirts and not-so-cute jeans. I mean, for crying out loud, we were just going to throw on gym clothes and run around the track! I've grown up as far as the fashion world goes, but I still identify with the high school me.
- I really came to realize -- and it's the best advice that will come out of the end of this show -- that high school is not the end, it is not the best, it is not the only. You will have a whole life afterward, if you're lucky. If you're unlucky, then the only thing you'll ever feel is how fun it is at your prom.
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