
Selma Blair
Selma Blair Beitner (born June 23, 1972) is an American actress. She's known for her roles in the comedies Legally Blonde (2001) and The Sweetest Thing (2002), and achieved international fame with her portrayal of Liz Sherman in the big-budget fantasy films Hellboy (2004) and Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008).
After training at the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting, Blair began acting in the mid-90s. Blair began her career with small roles and guest roles in various television series. Blair appeared with co-stars Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Ryan Phillippe in the 1999 film Cruel Intentions, for which Blair won an MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss - Lesbian Kiss between Blair and co-star Gellar.
She went on to star as Zoe Bean in two seasons of TV series Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane (1999-2000), She rejoined actress Reese Witherspoon in the comedy film Legally Blonde (2001). She also starred opposite Cameron Diaz and Christina Applegate in The Sweetest Thing and in two independent films that garnered her much critical acclaim: Dana Lustig's Kill Me Later and Todd Solondz's controversial Storytelling, and one of her most recognized roles, Liz Sherman in Hellboy (2004) and its successful sequel released in 2008, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, based on the popular comic.
Her films include The Deal, The Big Empty, and Ed Burn's Purple Violets. Her other notable film credits include Highway (2002), A Guy Thing (2003), A Dirty Shame (2004), The Fog (2005), WΔZ (2007), Feast of Love (2007), The Poker House (2008), Dark Horse (2011), In Their Skin (2012), Ordinary World (2016), Mothers and Daughters (2016), Mom and Dad (2017), After (2019) and A Dark Foe (2020).
She starred opposite Molly Shannon in the TV series Kath & Kim, based on the Australian television series of the same name. She also starred as Kate Wales on the sitcom Anger Management (2012–2014); and as Kris Jenner in the first season of the FX drama series American Crime Story (2016). In 2010, Blair narrated the audiobook The Diary of Anne Frank, earning a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children.
She can also be seen in the My Friend Steve 1998 music video Charmed. Her stage work includes the role of Kayleen in Rajiv Joseph's Gruesome Playground Injuries, which had its world premiere at Houston's Alley Theatre in October 2009.
In October 2018, Blair revealed that she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in August of that year.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.023 |
Birthday | 1972-06-23 |
Place of Birth | Southfield, Michigan. USA |
Also Known As | Σέλμα Μπλερ, 셀마 블레어, Сэльма Блэр, Selma Blair Beitner, 莎瑪布萊兒 飾, سلما بلر, |

2004

Hellboy
6.668/6963
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2005

The Fog
4.5/760
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1999

Cruel Intentions
6.8/3323
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2005

The Deal
5.659/22
A political thriller steeped in illegal oil trading, the Russian Mafia, and governmental cover-ups.
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2004

In Good Company
6.018/628
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2000

Down to You
5.3/239
College coeds in New York City, Al, the son of a celebrity chef, and Imogen, a talented artist, become smitten the second they lay eyes on one another...
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2007

Purple Violets
5.9/46
Patti Petalson is a promising writer, but her marriage and conventional job keep her from her dream. She longs to return to her writing, especially af...
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2008

Hellboy II: The Golden Army
6.8/5261
Hellboy, his pyrokinetic girlfriend, Liz, and aquatic empath, Abe Sapien, face their biggest battle when an underworld elven prince plans to reclaim E...
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2002

The Sweetest Thing
5.565/1107
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2001

Legally Blonde
6.8/4108
Fashionable sorority queen Elle Woods has it all. She wants nothing more than to be Mrs. Warner Huntington III. But he dumps her before heading to law...
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2008

My Mom's New Boyfriend
5.4/245
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2003

A Guy Thing
5.9/347
Paul Morse is a good guy. When his friends throw him a wild bachelor party, he just wants to keep his conscience clean -- which is why he's shocked wh...
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2007

Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron
6.3/125
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2004

A Dirty Shame
5.3/279
Sylvia Stickles runs a convenience store with her husband and mother-in-law. One day, Sylvia is hit on the head and transforms from an uptight prude t...
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2001

Kill Me Later
5.64/25
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2005

Dallas 362
4.9/13
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2005

Pretty Persuasion
5.8/137
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2007

Feast of Love
6.2/242
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2006

The Alibi
5.7/110
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2007

WΔZ
5.562/193
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2008

The Poker House
6.2/137
Agnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns.
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1998

Brown's Requiem
5/11
Fritz Brown is an ex-LAPD, recovering alcoholic who now splits his time repossessing cars for a used car lot and staffing his one-man private detectiv...
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2001

Storytelling
6.5/189
College and high school serve as the backdrop for two stories about dysfunction and personal turmoil.
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2006

Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms
6.3/127
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2002

Highway
5.5/131
Jack is caught with the wife of his employer, a Vegas thug. The thug sends goons after Jack, who convinces his best friend, Pilot, to flee with him. P...
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2012

Dark Horse
5.69/108
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2011

The Family Tree
5.2/46
A mother and wife stricken with memory loss allows a dysfunctional family a second chance at harmony and happiness.
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2012

Columbus Circle
5.75/232
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2004

Hellboy: The Seeds of Creation
7.9/8
A comprehensive look at the history of the Hellboy character from his comic book roots through to his movie debut.
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1998

Girl
5.1/37
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2008

Hellboy: In Service of the Demon
7.4/11
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2011

Animal Love
5/1
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2004

Demarco Affairs
0/0
Romantic drama which tracks three sisters who run a wedding palace on Long Island that they have inherited from their bitterly divorced parents.
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2012

In Their Skin
5.3/131
A couple and their young son retreat to their woodland vacation home, only to face sinister neighbors who intend to kill them and steal their identiti...
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2012

Kingdom Come
6.2/5
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1998

No Laughing Matter
0/0
Emma is the bright, attractive and funny widowed mother of teen honor-student Charlie. She has a drinking problem that seemingly increases exponential...
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2008

Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound
6.8/4
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2004

Coast to Coast
7/4
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2005

The Big Empty
7.3/9
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2005

All the Dirt on 'A Dirty Shame'
7.4/5
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2006

The Night of the White Pants
5.7/3
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1997

Strong Island Boys
2/1
Ari is a junior-high student who likes wrestling and lifting weights more than anything else. One day at a local park he and his friend Jeremy are bru...
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2015

Sex, Death and Bowling
4.667/21
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1996

The Broccoli Theory
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Unromantic comedy that follows the on again - off again relationship game of two hapless twenty something couples.
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2016

Eva Hesse
6.5/8
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1998

Can't Hardly Wait
6.2/534
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1997

Scream 2
6.494/4285
Two years after the first series of murders, as Sidney Prescott acclimates to college life, someone donning the Ghostface costume begins a new string...
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2016

Mothers and Daughters
5.3/122
Interwoven stories of what it is to be a mom seen through the lens of photographer Rigby Gray.
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2016

Ordinary World
5.842/92
Perry is a happily married father of two living a comfortable but sedate life in the suburbs. On the occasion of his 40th birthday, he seeks to revisi...
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2018

Mom and Dad
5.392/1008
In a suburban community, moms and dads, one after the other, mysteriously feel the irresistible impulse to attack and kill their own offspring.
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1997

In & Out
6.5/700
A midwestern teacher questions his sexuality after a former student makes a comment about him at the Academy Awards.
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2021

A Dark Foe
3.6/18
The plot follows a tortured FBI agent suffering from an irrational fear of darkness, as he investigates a mysterious former prostitute in order to cat...
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A Dark Foe

2019

After
7.122/8306
Tessa Young is a dedicated student, dutiful daughter and loyal girlfriend to her high school sweetheart. Entering her first semester of college, Tessa...
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2020

After We Collided
7.172/5358
Tessa finds herself struggling with her complicated relationship with Hardin; she faces a dilemma that could change their lives forever.
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1998

Debutante
10/1
Nan, seventeen, wakes up alone in a motel room and wonders how she got there. The events of the preceding night come back to her on the subway ride ho...
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2021

Introducing, Selma Blair
6.9/11
In a quest to take control of her personal health, actor Selma Blair adapts to new ways of living while pursuing an experimental medical procedure, af...
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1997

Amazon High
0/0
A high school teenager wakes up in a time of Amazons and Gods.
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1997

Arresting Gena
0/0
A directionless teenager (Aesha Waks) becomes involved with a headstrong runaway (Summer Phoenix) and her drug-dealing brother (Sam Rockwell).
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There There
0/0
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Stay Forte
0/0
Tells the incredible true story of Alon Shamiriz, Yotam Haim and Samer Tallaka, three Israelis taken hostage by Hamas during its Oct. 7 attack in sout...
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