Date of Birth
9 April 1986, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Birth Name
Leighton Marissa Meester
Height
Trivia
Has an older
brother, Douglas Meester.
Her surname
"Meester" is Dutch for "master" or "teacher".
She has worked with
famous photographer Sofia Coppola.
She enjoys singing
and even sang in the movie Drive
Thru (2007).
She is naturally
blonde but dyed her hair brown for the role of "Blair Waldorf" for
her TV series "Gossip
Girl" (2007).
Named one of People
Magazines' 100 Most Beautiful in 2008.
Ranked #48 on the
Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2008 list.
Has a younger
brother named Lex Meester.
Attended Beverly
Hills High School in Beverly Hills, California.
Is bringing out an
electric pop album sometime in 2009.
She also speaks
fluent French.
Enjoys creative
writing.
Ranked #12 on Maxim
Magazine's Hot 100 of 2009 list.
Ranked #1 on FHM
Online's Fall 2008 TV's Hottest Stars.
Was ranked #17 on
Maxim Magazine's Hot 100 of 2010 list.
Grew up in Marco
Island, Florida
Her mother is of
Spanish descent.
Her mother served a
federal prison sentence for her involvement in a drug ring that smuggled
marijuana from Jamaica to the United States. She was able to give birth to
Leighton in a hospital and nursed her for three months in a halfway house,
before returning to prison to complete her sentence. At this time Leighton's
grandmother cared for her.
Moved to Los
Angeles, California at 14. She attended Hollywood High School and Beverly Hills
High School. She then transferred to a small private school and graduated a
year early.
Was in a
relationship with her former "Gossip
Girl" (2007) co-star Sebastian Stan from 2008-2010.
Ranked as having one
of the most beautiful famous faces by "The Annual Independent Critics List
of the 100 Most Beautiful Famous Faces From Around the World." She was
ranked #4 in 2010, #14 in 2009, and #21 in 2008.
Personal Quotes
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.
I love New York.
You're never alone, but you're always on your own.
I don't want to have
a friend unless I can call them one of my best friends.
I think the most
wonderful thing about her [Audrey Hepburn] is that she set a lot of trends and
they were all about being modern yet having your own kind of look because you
can be stylish and trendy all you want but, at the end of the day, it's about
what you feel amazing in.
If you're just
yourself, you'll never lose. I want to be myself. That's when you feel the most
comfortable, that's when you have the most success, and that's when you're the
most happy.
[on her parents'
criminal past] It made me realize that you can't judge anyone-especially your
parents-for what they've done in their past, because people change.
