SELMA BLAIR, a native of Southfield, Michigan, is best know for her starring role in Cruel Intentions, a youthful retelling of the classic novel Les Liasions Dangereuses. Her sly performance as the bumbling Cecile earned rave reviews and an MTV Movie Award for "Best Kiss" with Sara Michelle Gellar. Blair was also nominated for an MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance for her role and won the Movieline Magazine Award for most Exciting New RAce.
After graduating from high school, Blair moved to New York City to pursue photography. Instead, she took acting classes at The Stella Adler Conservatory and The Column Theatre. An agent discovered Blair in acting class, and one week later she received her SAG card for a television commercial.
Blair starred for two seasons as the title character in WB's Zoe. Most recently, she starred in Legally Blond and in director Dana Lustig's independent feature Kill Me Later. Blair also starred in director Todd Solodnz's Storytelling. In The Sweetest Thing, Blair reunited with Cruel Intentions' director Roger Krumble and starred opposite Cameron Diaz and Christina Applegate.