She spent her freshman year (1990–1991) at Kalamazoo College, where she studied photography and acted in the play The Little Theater of the Green Goose. Blair attended Hillel Day School, a Jewish day school in Farmington Hills and Cranbrook Kingswood in Bloomfield Hills soon after. Blair formally converted to Judaism as a child, and had a Jewish upbringing her Hebrew name is Bat-Sheva. Her father and maternal grandfather were from Jewish families, while her maternal grandmother, who had Scottish ancestry, was Anglican. She has three older sisters, Katherine, Elizabeth, and Marie Beitner.

Her parents divorced when Blair was 23 she subsequently legally changed her surname. Democratic Party, and labor arbitrator until his death in 2012 at the age of 82. Her father was an attorney, active in the U.S. She is the youngest of four daughters of Judge Molly Ann ( née Cooke) and Elliot I. Blair has one child.īlair was born on June 23, 1972, in Southfield, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. Her autobiography, Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up, was published by Knopf Press in 2022. In 2010, Blair narrated the audiobook The Diary of Anne Frank, earning a Grammy nomination for Best Spoken Word Album for Children. Outside of film, Blair starred as Kim in the American remake of Kath & Kim (2008–2009) as Kate Wales on the sitcom Anger Management (2012–2014) as Kris Jenner on the first season of the FX drama series American Crime Story (2016) and as Harper Glass in the Netflix science fiction series Another Life (2019).

In 2021, Blair starred in Introducing, Selma Blair, a documentary about her life since being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Her other notable film credits include Storytelling (2001), A Guy Thing (2003), A Dirty Shame (2004), The Fog (2005), WΔZ (2007), Feast of Love (2007), The Poker House (2008), Dark Horse (2011), Columbus Circle (2012), In Their Skin (2012), Ordinary World (2016), Mothers and Daughters (2016), Mom and Dad (2017), After (2019), and A Dark Foe (2020). She continued to find success with 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). Her breakthrough came when she starred as Zoe Bean on the WB sitcom Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane (1999–2000), and as Cecile Caldwell in the cult film Cruel Intentions (1999). She played a number of roles in films and on television before obtaining recognition for her leading role in the film Brown's Requiem (1998). Selma Blair Beitner (born June 23, 1972) is an American actress and author.

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