Blake Ellender Lively (née Brown; August 25, 1987) is an American actress. She is known for playing as Serena van der Woodsen in the CW teen-drama television series Gossip Girl (2007–2012). Lively has also starred in the films The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005), Accepted (2006), The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009), The Town (2010), Green Lantern (2011), Savages (2012), The Age of Adaline (2015), and The Shallows (2016). She is married to actor Ryan Reynolds.