Leighton Marissa Meester (born April 9, 1986) is an American actress and singer. Meester gained fame for playing the role of Blair Worldorf in the cw young-adult television series Gossip girls . She most recently appeared in the 2010 country drama film country strong and the 2011 thriller The roommate .
As of 2011, she is set to appear in another two big screen movies: Monty carlo , and The oranges . The daughter of Constance (née Haas) and Douglas Meester. At the time, her mother was serving a federal prison sentence for her involvement in a during lioght that smuggled marijuana from Jamaica to the United States. She was able to give birth to Leighton in a hospital and nurse 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. Meester has maintained that her parents gave her a normal upbringing and, despite their criminal past, are good people with experience that has only made M
ester more open-minded and non-judgmental, "It made me realize that you can't judge anyone—especially your parents—for what they've done in their past, because people change. Mister has joked, "Look, I could've turned out a lot worse". She has cited her mother as her style icon.
