Leighton Marissa Meester (born April 9, 1986) is an American actress, pop singer, and fashion model best known for her role as Blair Waldorf in the television series Gossip Girl.Leighton Meester was born while her mother was serving a federal prison sentence in Fort Worth, Texas. Although her mother, Constance, was serving time in prison for her involvement in a drug ring that smuggled marijuana from Jamaica to the United States, she was able to give birth to Leighton Meester in a hospital and nurse her for three months in a halfway house before returning to prison to complete her sentence.
