Selma Blair

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American screen and stage actress, who played a large number of supporting roles in film and television before obtaining recognition for her leading role in the film noir Brown's Requiem (1998). Her breakthrough came in 1999, when she starred on The WB teen sitcom Zoe and in the coming-of-age drama Cruel Intentions. Blair continued to find commercial success with the comedies Legally Blonde (2001) and The Sweetest Thing (2002), and achieved international fame as a result of her portrayal of the heroine Liz Sherman in the fantasy films Hellboy (2004) and Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008). Blair portrayed the leading role in the American remake of Kath & Kim as Kim (2008–2009), and on the sitcom Anger Management (2012–2014). Blair also appeared as socialite Kris Jenner in the first season of FX true crime anthology series American Crime Story (2016). In 2011, Blair lent her voice to narrate the Holocaust-related audio documentary The Diary of Anne Frank, garnering a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children nomination. In 1990, Blair's childhood sweetheart died in an accident at the age of 18. On 24 January 2004, after six months of dating, Blair married writer and producer Ahmet Zappa (son of musician Frank Zappa) at Carrie Fisher's mansion in Beverly Hills, California. She filed for divorce from Zappa at the Los Angeles Superior Court on 21 June 2006, citing "irreconcilable differences". The divorce became final in December 2006. Blair dated her Kath and Kim co-star Mikey Day from 2008 to 2010. In 2010, Blair began dating fashion designer Jason Bleick. Their son, Arthur Saint Bleick, was born at 10:21 AM on 25 July 2011. In September 2012, Blair and Bleick announced that they had separated after two years. On 20 October 2018 Blair revealed on Instagram that she had been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis [1]. Link to Wikipedia biography