Selma Blairis an American actress and author who is best known for her roles inCruel Intentions,Legally Blonde, and theHellboyfranchise. Making her television debut in the children’s sitcom,The Adventures of Pete & Pete,Selma landed her first lead role in the film,Strong Island Boys.
Working steadily in independent films such asStorytellingandHighway, Blair later made amemorable guestappearance starring as Wendy on the hit television series,Friends.Following her performance in the teen comedy,Down to You, Selma won the Young Hollywood Award for “Exciting New Face.” In the 2002 comedy,The Sweetest Thing, Blair was nominated for the Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actress in a Comedy.
In the documentary,Introducing, Selma Blair, centering around her life since her diagnosis with multiple sclerosis, Blair uses her own experiences with the disease to promote awareness of multiple sclerosis. In 2022, Selma was a contestant on Season 31 ofDancing with the Stars, however, left voluntarily due to her health. Following her emotional final performance onDancing with the Stars, Len Goodman commended her for making it as far as she had. Here are Selma Blair’s best performances, Ranked.
Afteris a romantic drama film that was directed by Jenny Gage and is based on the 2014 novel of the same name by Anna Todd. The film isthe first installmentin theAfterfranchise and stars Hero Fiennes Tiffin and Josephine Langford.
Tessa Young (Josephine Langford) is a dedicated student and dutiful daughter. With the help of her mother Carol (Selma Blair) and Tessa’s boyfriend Noah (Dylan Arnold), she enters her first semester of college. After meeting Hardin Scott (Hero Fiennes Tiffin), Tessa begins to question all that she thought she knew about herself and the inexperienced teenager begins a romance with the brooding rebel, Hardin.
The Fog, the supernatural horror film directed by Rupert Wainwright, stars Tom Welling, Selma Blair, and Maggie Grace. The film was produced by John Carpenter and is a remake of Carpenter’s 1980 film,The Fog.
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After a mysterious fog rolls in, Elizabeth Williams (Maggie Grace) and her boyfriend Nick Castle (Tom Welling) discover the fog has vengeful supernatural occurrences that are plaguing their town. Meanwhile, at the local radio station, host Stevie Wayne (Selma Blair) gets a call from the local weatherman, Dan (Jonathon Young) about a large fog bank off the coast.
WΔZ, also known asThe Killing Gene, is a British crime horror thriller film directed by Tom Shankland and written by Clive Bradley. The horror film stars Stellan Skarsgard, Melissa George, Selma Blair, and Tom Hardy.
Jean Lerner (Selma Blair) was the victim of abrutal home invasionby a group of thugs in which she was tortured and forced to choose between enduring more torture or ending it by asking one of the thugs to shoot her mother. Unable to endure any more pain, Jean’s mother was killed. Years later, Jean goes after the ones who killed her mother by putting them in similar situations, by offering each victim a gruesome choice of either killing their loved ones or being killed and carving the Price equation (wΔz = Cov (w,z) = βwzVz) into their flesh.
9A Dark Foe
A Dark Foeis an independent crime-thriller film directed by Maria Gabriela Cardenas, starring her father, Oscar Cardenas, along with Kenzie Dalton, Graham Greene, and Selma Blair. The film centers around a vengeful FBI agent Tony Cruz (Oscar Cardenas), who is haunted by the painful memories of the past, and relentlessly pursues the serial killer who murdered his mother and kidnapped his sister.
Agent Cruz suffers from a rare condition known as Nyctophobia, an irrational fear of the dark, and during a bust at a nightclub, Cruz risks everyone’s safety when his nyctophobia happens, forcing him into the fetal position. After seeing a therapist (Selma Blair), his irrational fear is not enough to pull him off of the case, and he faces off against the cunning serial killer.
8Anger Management
Anger Management, is a comedy television sitcom created by Bruce Helford. The series revolves around Charlie Goodman (Charlie Sheen), a one-time minor leaguebaseball player, who struggles to control his recurring anger issues.
After help from his therapist, Dr. Kate Wales (Selma Blair), Charlie was able to get his anger issues under control and finally make it to the major leagues. However, during a league game, he relapses by breaking a bat over his knee, causing a career-ending injury. The incident inspired Charlie to return to school and become an anger management therapist.
7The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Storyis a drama crime limited television series developed by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, who are executive producers with Brad Falchuk, Nina Jacobson, Ryan Murphy, and Brad Simpson. The series ensemble cast includes John Travolta, Cuba Gooding Jr, Sarah Paulson, David Schwimmer, Courtney B. Vance, Sterling Brown, Nathan Lane, Kenneth Choi, Christian Clemenson, and Bruce Greenwood.
The series revolves around the O.J. Simpson murder case as well as the combination of prosecution confidence, defense willingness, and the Los Angeles Police Department’s history with African Americans. The limited series is based on Jeffrey Toobin’s book,The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson. Selma Blair makes a stand-out recurring appearance as Kris Jenner.
6Storytelling
Storytellingis a comedy-drama film that was written and directed by Todd Solondz. The film consists of two unrelated stories titled Fiction and Non-Fiction with different actors. Fiction, centers around Vi (Selma Blair) a graduate student dating an undergrad, Marcus (Leo Fitzpatrick), who has cerebral palsy, though he observes that she no longer seems passionate about their relationship.
While ina creative writing classtaught by a well-known African American author, Mr Scott (Robert Wisdom), Marcus writes an amateurish story about the effect of Vi’s love on his medical condition, and Vi encourages him to share it in the class workshop. Marcus angrily blames Vi for his harsh feedback from Catherine (Aleksa Palladino) and breaks up with her, accusing Vi of being secretly attracted to Mr. Scott. However, Vi is later sexually assaulted by Mr. Scott and shares a fictionalized version of her encounter with Mr. Scott while in the class workshop.
5Mom and Dad
Mom and Dadis a horror comedy film that was written and directed by Brian Taylor. The film stars Nicolas Cage and Selma Blair with co-stars Anne Winters, Zackary Arthur, Robert T. Cunningham, Olivia Crocicchia, George Griffith, Samantha Lemole, Rachel Melvin, and Joseph D. Reitman while Mehmet Oz makes a cameo appearance as himself.
Teenager Carly Ryan (Anne Winters) and her little brother Josh Ryan (Zackary Arthur) attempt to survive 24 hours during a mass hysteria where an unknown origin causes parents to turn violently on their children. Later their parents, Kendall (Selma Blair) and Brent (Nicolas Cage), wake up to find themselves restrained in the basement with Carly, Josh, and Damon (Robert T. Cunningham) watching them. As they continue to exhibit symptoms of hysteria, the kids refuse to let their parents go.
4The Sweetest Thing
The Sweetest Thingis a romance comedy film directed by Roger Kumble and written by Nancy Pimental, who based the characters on herself and her friend Kate Walsh. The film stars Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate, and Selma Blair.
Christina Walters (Cameron Diaz) has a golden rule when it comes to dating, avoid searching for Mr. Right and focus on Mr. Right Now. While out at a club, Christina unexpectedly meets Peter (Thomas Jane) and has an instant connection, however, later regrets not accepting his invitation to an after-party at his hotel.
With her best friend Courtney (Christina Applegate), the twoset out on a road tripto find Peter and encounter a wild and hilarious adventure along the way. Meanwhile, Jane (Selma Blair) pays an embarrassing visit to the dry cleaner and later is nearly caught having sex with her boyfriend at her retail job.
3Legally Blonde
Legally Blondeis a comedy film, directed by Robert Luketic in his feature-length directorial debut scripted by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith. The film stars Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, Selma Blair, Matthew Davis, Victor Garber, and Jennifer Coolidge.
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Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon), is a society girl who wants nothing more than to marry Warner Huntington lll (Matthew Davis). Expecting Warner to propose while they are at an expensive restaurant, Warner breaks up with Elle instead, believing that she is not serious enough about the kind of life he wants to live. In an attempt to win Warner back, Elle decides to get her Juris Doctor degree at Harvard Law School, however, after she arrives she encounters Warner and discovers he is engaged to his old girlfriend, Vivian Kensington (Selma Blair).
