Selma Blair trivia: 60 amazing facts about the American actress!

Selma Blair is an American actress with many credits in tv show and films! She is most known for taking part in Hellboy!

So let’s find out somethings about her and her life!

1. Her full name is Selma Blair Beitner
2. She was born on June 23, 1972
3. Selma Blair is an American actress
4. She played a number of small roles in films and on television before obtaining recognition
5. She did that for her leading role in the film Brown’s Requiem (1998)
6. Her breakthrough came when she starred as Zoe Bean on the WB sitcom Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane (1999– 2000)
7. And as Cecile Caldwell in the cult film Cruel Intentions (1999)
8. Selma Blair continued to find success with the comedies Legally Blonde (2001) and The Sweetest Thing (2002)
9. She achieved international fame with her portrayal of Liz Sherman in the big- budget fantasy films Hellboy (2004) and Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)
10. She was born in Southfield, in the metropolitan area of Detroit, Michigan
11. The youngest of four daughters of Judge Molly Ann and Elliot I. Beitner
12. Selma Blair had a Jewish upbringing
13. Her Hebrew name is Bat- Sheva
14. Her father was an attorney, active in the U.S. Democratic Party
15. And labor arbitrator until his death in 2012 at the age of 82
16. Her parents divorced when Blair was 23
17. She subsequently legally changed her surname
18. She has three older sisters
19. Their names are Katherine, Elizabeth, and Marie Beitner
20. Selma Blair attended Hillel Day School
21. A Jewish day school in Farmington Hills
22. And Cranbrook Kingswood in Bloomfield Hills soon after
23. She spent her freshman year (1990- 1991) in Kalamazoo College
24. There she studied photography
25. She also acted in the play The Little Theater of the Green Goose
26. At the time, she wanted to be a ballerina and a horse trainer
27. At the age of 20 Selma Blair moved to New York City
28. There she lived at The Salvation Army
29. She attended New York University (NYU)
30. As well as acting classes at the Stella Adler Conservatory, the Column Theatre, and the Stonestreet Screen Acting Workshop
31. Later, she returned to Michigan to finish her studies
32. After transferring from NYU, she graduated magna cum laude from the University of Michigan in 1994
33. With a bachelor of fine arts in photography
34. Bachelor of arts in psychology
35. And a double major in fine arts and English
36. Selma Blair then returned to New York City to pursue a career in the arts
37. In 1990, during her time at Cranbrook Kingswood, Selma Blair was involved in a production of T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral
38. In 1993, she began training at acting schools in New York
39. She was discovered by an agent in acting class
40. Subsequently, Selma Blair signed with her
41. After 75 auditions, she got her first advertising contract for a television spot ad for a theater in Virginia
42. For which she received her Screen Actor’s Guild membership
43. In 1990, Blair’s childhood sweetheart died in an accident at the age of 18
44. On January 24, 2004, after six months of dating, Selma Blair married writer and producer Ahmet Zappa
45. They got married at Carrie Fisher’s mansion in Beverly Hills, California
46. They lived in Los Angeles, in a 1920s- era home that they bought for $1.35 million in 2004
47. She filed for divorce from Zappa at the Los Angeles Superior Court on June 21, 2006
48. The divorce became final in December 2006
49. Selma Blair dated her Kath and Kim co- star Mikey Day from 2008 to 2010
50. In 2010, Blair began dating fashion designer Jason Bleick
51. In January 2011, Blair’s representative announced that she was pregnant with her first child
52. Their son was born that July
53. In September 2012, Blair and Bleick announced that they had separated after two years
54. In October 2018, Selma Blair revealed that in August she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis
55. She had thought, for years, that she was suffering from minor illnesses or even a pinched nerve
56. The diagnosis finally explained her disabilities, including her occasional falling, dropping things, foggy memory, and her left side acting like it was “asking for directions from a broken GPS.”
57. Selma Blair was inspired to reveal the news as a way to thank Allisa Swanson, her costume designer
58. Who had selflessly become her unofficial “dresser” for Blair’s role in the Netflix series Another Life
59. She has more than 45 credits in films and short films to her name
60. Her newest film will come out this April, 2019