Date of Birth- 9 April 1986, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Birth Place: Marco Island, Florida
Birth Name- Leighton Marissa Meester
Height- 5' 5" (1.65 m)
Playing Manhattan socialite-in-training Blair Waldorf on CW’s wildly popular teen soap Gossip Girl, Leighton Meester and her merry gang of impossibly glamorous cohorts have become the successors to the throne once occupied by the gang at West Beverly and then by the precocious clan of Orange County. Since the show's debut four years ago, Meester has catapulted to the top of young Hollywood, and parlayed her plum role on television into a burgeoning film and music career. With her time on Gossip Girl most likely coming to an end, the New York fashion icon is hoping her upcoming roles in several feature films including Country Strong, The Roommate and Monte Carlo prove that she has what it takes to transition from the small screen to the big.