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One of our most electrifying and flexible Hollywood celebrities, Selma Blair first grabbed attention for her role in the thriller "Cruel Intentions" in 1999 starring a young Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Reese Witherspoon. For her role, she took home a MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss, and was nominated for Breakthrough Female Performance. The award shocked some critics as the award winning kiss was with the lesbian character played by Gellar. (See Video Below)

Blair started her Hollywood career on the small screen, taking bit roles in shows such as "The Adventures of Pete & Pete", and then moving onto movie roles. Her first big screen appearance was as a character simply named 'pretzel cart lesbian' when she graced the screen in the comedy "The Broccoli Theory" (1996), an unromantic comedy that follows the on again - off again gay and lesbian relationship of two unlucky twenty-year-old couples. She then sharpened her talents in big roles in little movies like "Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy", "Strong Island Boys", "Gone Again", "Arresting Gena" and "Two In The Morning". But the actress struggled to find large, mainstream roles, and grew concerned she would always be cast as an extra, sexy bit player in low budget films. But her talent was about to be recognized, catapulting her into the role of sexy Hollywood celebrity.

She was next hired and cast  in her first starring movie role in the thriller "Brown's Requiem" (1998), before taking the supporting role of Cyrus in the romantic comedy "Down To You" (2000), starring Freddie Prinze Jr., Ashton Kutcher and Julia Stiles, a story about a young man who wins and loses the first serious love of his life. The film won a Choice Film Teen Choice Award, but other than that was not seen by many people, or given any serious reviews. She continued to chug along waiting for her first blockbuster movie role. 

She then appeared in the leading role for the comedy short film "Debutante" (1998), where her character, a young teen, wakes up alone in a motel bed and sees a young boy kissing one of her friends. The big break for the actor came in the role of Cecile Caldwell in the dramatic thriller "Cruel Intentions" (1999), about the game of seduction, and a woman who makes a bet that her step-brother won't be able to sleep with a virgin. If he loses, Kathryn gets his Jaguar, if he wins, he gets Kathryn. She gained a huge gay and lesbian following when she was seen in a scene kissing Sarah Michelle Gellar. The film walked away with six industry awards and eleven nomination. Selma was now a recognized movie star, and producers wanted her in their movies, and audiences wanted to see more of her. 

Everybody got their wish in 1999 when she starred as Zoe Bean in the television comedy series "Zoe, Duncan, Jack & Jane". The series did not do well with focus groups and was cut after only twenty-four episodes. At one point during filming one of the early episodes, she became so upset at messing up her lines that she passed out on the set, in front of a live studio audience. She then jumped back to the big screen as Shawn Holloway in the romantic crime thriller "Kill Me Later" (2001), where her character deals with a dead goldfish, and an exposed lover uncovered as a rat. She leaves her job and goes to the roof intent on suicide, but before she can jump she's taken hostage by a fleeing bank robber. 

She then took the supporting role of Vivian in the political comedy "Legally Blonde" (2001) starring Reese Witherspoon and Luke Wilson, a story about a blonde sorority queen who is dumped by her boyfriend and decides to follow him to law school to get him back and, once there, learns she has more legal savvy than she ever imagined. "Legally Blonde" was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and won a Teen Choice Award for Best Movie of the Summer. 

She wrapper her year in the role of Cassie for the independent crime drama "Highway" (2001), starring with Jared Leto and Jake Gyllenhaal, in a story that starts as a desperate escape but becomes a wild ride for a group of friends.

The actress kicked of 2002 starring with Christina Applegate and Cameron Diaz in the romantic comedy "The Sweetest Thing" (2002), where a girl finds she is forced to educate herself on the etiquette of winning the opposite sex when she finally meets Mr. Right. She was again nominated for a Teen Choice Award. Unfortunately, her personal life quickly became fodder for tabloids across the country when she and actor husband Ahmet Zappa got divorced after two years of marriage. The couple married in January 2004, after dating for six months, in a traditional Jewish ceremony at the Beverly Hills mansion of actress Carrie Fisher. She filed for divorce in June 2006 citing "irreconcilable differences". The gay and lesbian rumors starting flying again as well.

Not one to be kept down, the star soon surfaced in a guest spot on the smash hit TV series "Friends", before taking a lead role in the romantic comedy "A Guy Thing" in 2003. The humorous film tells the story about a man who wakes up the morning after his bachelor party in bed with a strange woman, and he assumes he must have cheated on his fiancee.  After a run of small movie roles and even smaller TV movie parts, she emerged to star as Liz Sherman in the action adventure movie "Hellboy" (2004), with Ron Perlman as Hellboy. The fantasy film is the story of a demon, raised from infancy after being conjured by and rescued from the Nazis, who grows up to become a defender against the forces of darkness.

Selma then left the romance roles behind to star with Tracey Ullman and Johnny Knoxville in the John Waters comedy "A Dirty Shame" (2004), where an uptight, middle-aged, repressed woman turns into a sex addict after getting hit on the head, and falls into an underground subculture of sex addicts in central Baltimore. With critical success in only a few films, shw was determined to get rid of her oddball Hollywood stereotype so she could star in a film as "the pretty girl". The actress feared she had been typecast after taking a number of peculiar roles, including huge-breasted nightclub dancer Caprice Stickles in "A Dirty Shame", and several roles playing a gay women.

She got her wish in the Paul Weitz written comedy "In Good Company", starring with Dennis Quaid and Topher Grace, where Quaid plays a middle-aged advertising executive faced with a new boss who's nearly half his age (Topher Grace), and who also happens to be sleeping with his daughter. The film was a typical summer teen comedy, but gave Blair some much needed attention and critical review. Her star was starting to shine again. 

Her next starring role came opposite Christian Slater in the crime thriller "The Deal" in 2005, a political thriller immersed in illegal oil trading, the Russian Mafia, and governmental cover-ups. Even with a strong cast, the weak script and poor story line sank this film on its opening weekend. Doing what she knew how to do best, she returned to the thriller horror genre in "The Fog" (2005), where a quiet seaside town is engulfed by a thick fog exactly one hundred years after a ship sunk just off the coast under mysterious circumstances. Next, the actress jumped into somewhat of a controversial starring role as Alice in the short comedy "The Big Empty" (2005), a description, and bittersweet tale of Alice, her vagina and the infinite nature of the terrain and vast lonely expanse that exists there. Because it was produced as a short film, not many people saw it, but the movie did walk away with several film festival awards.

Blair's next starring role did not emerge until 2007 in the romantic comedy "Purple Violets" with Edward Burns and  Debra Messing, the story about Patti Petalson, who struggles with the pressure of becoming the next big American writer. She wrapped her year as Kathryn Smith in the drama "Feast Of Love" (2007), starring with Greg Kinnear in a story of love and its various forms, set within a community of friends in Oregon. Again, as in "Cruel Intentions", she found herself in a lesbian scene that once again started rumors the actress was gay. Since her divorce several years earlier, it was a stereotype she could not seem to shake. 

Another big Hollywood blockbuster role came along in the role of Emily Lott in the smash hit comedy "My Mom's New Boyfriend" (2008), starring an all-star cast including Antonio Banderas, Meg Ryan and Colin Hanks, where Hanks character is a young federal agent who is given a difficult assignment: spy on his mother and her boyfriend who are suspected of leading a gang of art thieves. The film was mediocre, but still received good reviews and notice for Blair. In 2008, she reteamed with her "Hellboy" cast to again play the role of Liz Sherman in the sequel "Hellboy II: The Golden Army" (2008), where this time the mythical world starts a rebellion against humanity in order to rule the Earth, so Hellboy and his team must save the world from the rebellious creatures. 

That same year, 2008, she returned to network television in the co-starring role of Kim for the comedy "Kate & Kim" with Molly Shannon co-starring as Kate. The series is the United States version of the smash hit Australian comedy about a dysfunctional mother and daughter relationship. She was not initially sold on the shows ideas, as they called for the actress to pack on the pounds to portray her character. After thirteen episodes, the series was still going strong but some suspect the sitcom will be dropped early next year.

Not letting her future ride on a television series, she was cast in a supporting role against Dermot Mulroney in the comedy "Driving Lessons" (2009), again showing she is not shy about gay and lesbian roles. The film tells the story of a mother and wife, who is stricken with memory loss but allows a dysfunctional family a second chance at harmony and happiness. As hard as she has tried to break out of certain stereotypical movie roles, she seem to always fall back to them and still manages to produce a great movie. Sometimes you just have to do what comes natural.

Watch Lesbian Girls Sarah Michelle And Selma Blair Kissing In "Cruel Intentions"

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