Selma Blair Beitner was born on June 23, 1972. She is an American actress. Blair's best known film roles were in Cruel Intentions (1999), which also starred Sarah Michelle Gellar, and the Reese Witherspoon vehicle Legally Blonde. More recently she appeared alongside Cameron Diaz and Christina Applegate in The Sweetest Thing (2002), and in Hellboy (2004).
She was born to a Jewish family, Molly Ann and Elliot Beitner, in Southfield, Michigan with the Hebrew name Batsheva, and as a child attended Hillel Day School and Cranbrook Kingswood school near Detroit. She has a sister named Katherine Cooke Beitner.
She studied at Kalamazoo College from 1990 – 1992, then transferred to the University of Michigan, where she earned her bachelor's degree in 1994.
She also studied with Stella Adler.
She played the character of "Zoe" in the year-long TV series, "Zoe, Duncan, Jack, and Jane".
She has been married to Ahmet Zappa since January 24, 2004.
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