Blake Lively: net worth, age, height, husband and children

Blake Lively, born Blake Ellender Brown on August 25, 1987, in Tarzana, Los Angeles, California, is a 39-year-old American actress and businesswoman whose net worth is estimated at $30 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. She rose to fame as Serena van der Woodsen on the television drama Gossip Girl and built a film career with The Age of Adaline, The Shallows, A Simple Favor and It Ends With Us, alongside beverage and beauty brands she founded herself. She has been married to actor Ryan Reynolds since 2012, and they have four children.

Quick facts

Biography and early life

Blake Ellender Brown was born on August 25, 1987, in the Tarzana neighborhood of Los Angeles, so her birthday falls in late August and she turned 39 in August 2026. According to Celebrity Net Worth, she was born into a family deeply rooted in the entertainment industry. Her father, Ernie Lively, was a character actor and acting coach whose credits included Passenger 57 and The Beverly Hillbillies, while her mother, Elaine Lively, worked as a talent manager. Growing up surrounded by working actors, teachers and casting professionals, Lively was introduced to performance early and, by her own family’s account as summarized in published biographies, attended acting classes taught by her parents from a young age.

She is the youngest of five children, and every one of her siblings has worked in the arts. Her full brother is Eric Lively, an actor who appeared in American Pie and the television series The L Word. From her mother’s earlier marriage she has three half-siblings: her half-sister Robyn Lively, an actress known for Teen Witch, Doogie Howser, M.D. and Twin Peaks; her half-brother Jason Lively, remembered for playing Rusty Griswold in National Lampoon’s European Vacation; and her half-sister Lori Lively, who has worked as an actress and acting coach. That family background matters to her biography because acting was not a distant ambition in the Lively household. It was the family trade, discussed at home and taught in classes she sat in on as a child.

Lively’s first screen appearance came at age 10, in Sandman, a 1998 film directed by her father. She attended Burbank High School, where published profiles describe her as class president, a cheerleader and a member of the school’s championship show choir. Unlike many child performers, she did not work continuously through her teens. Her professional career effectively began in her late teens, when her brother Eric encouraged her to audition and helped connect her with representation, a step that led directly to the film role that launched her.

Career

Lively’s breakthrough came in 2005 with The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, the film adaptation of Ann Brashares’s bestselling novel. She played Bridget Vreeland, a confident teenage soccer player spending a summer in Mexico, alongside America Ferrera, Alexis Bledel and Amber Tamblyn. The film grossed more than $42 million worldwide, earned Lively a Teen Choice Award nomination and established her as one of the most promising young actresses of her generation. She followed it with the college comedy Accepted in 2006 and the independent drama Elvis and Anabelle in 2007, where critics praised a more emotional performance even though the film received only limited distribution.

Later in 2007 she landed the role that defined her career. Cast as Serena van der Woodsen in The CW’s Gossip Girl, based on the book series by Cecily von Ziegesar, she played a wealthy Manhattan socialite returning to the Upper East Side after a mysterious absence. The series ran from 2007 to 2012 across six seasons and became a cultural phenomenon, shaping fashion coverage and youth television of its era. Lively’s wardrobe on the show, and her own red-carpet choices off it, made her a fixture of best-dressed lists. According to Celebrity Net Worth, at the peak of the series she earned $60,000 per episode. Readers choosing an outfit for a formal evening often start from the polished, jewel-toned styling associated with that era, and a practical guide to what jewelry goes best with a black dress covers the same finishing decisions her most photographed looks made famous.

While Gossip Girl was still running, Lively deliberately took film roles that worked against Serena’s glamorous image. She returned as Bridget in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 in 2008 and appeared in The Private Lives of Pippa Lee in 2009. Her most praised performance of that period came in The Town in 2010, Ben Affleck’s crime drama, where she played Krista Coughlin. The gritty supporting role showed a dramatic range that her television work had not required, and critics singled it out. In 2011 she co-starred with Ryan Reynolds in the superhero film Green Lantern, a major studio production that received poor reviews but changed her personal life, as she and Reynolds began dating afterward. She then appeared in Oliver Stone’s crime thriller Savages in 2012.

Her leading roles in the following decade moved between romance, survival drama and stylish thrillers. In The Age of Adaline in 2015 she played a woman who stops aging after an accident, carrying a story that spans decades; the film earned more than $65 million worldwide. In 2016 she starred in The Shallows as a surfer stranded on a rock and hunted by a great white shark, a physically demanding performance that carried almost the entire film and drew strong reviews as the movie became a surprise commercial success. The same year she appeared in Café Society. In 2018 she starred opposite Anna Kendrick in A Simple Favor, playing the enigmatic Emily Nelson in a dark comedy mystery that performed well and won her particular praise; she returned for its sequel in 2025. In 2020 she headlined the espionage thriller The Rhythm Section as a woman training as an assassin to avenge her family’s deaths. She made her directorial debut in 2021 with the music video for Taylor Swift’s I Bet You Think About Me, which she also co-wrote. In 2024 she returned to a major leading role as Lily Bloom in It Ends With Us, the adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel, which grossed around $350 million worldwide on a reported $25 million budget according to Celebrity Net Worth.

Movies and television shows

Lively’s best-known screen credits, drawn from her published filmography, include the following.

• Sandman (1998)
• The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005) and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008)
• Accepted (2006) and Elvis and Anabelle (2007)
• Gossip Girl (2007–2012, television), as Serena van der Woodsen
• The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009) and The Town (2010)
• Green Lantern (2011) and Savages (2012)
• The Age of Adaline (2015)
• The Shallows (2016) and Café Society (2016)
• A Simple Favor (2018) and its 2025 sequel
• The Rhythm Section (2020)
• It Ends With Us (2024)

Beyond acting, Lively has built a separate business career. She became a global ambassador for L’Oréal Paris in 2013. In 2021 she founded Betty Buzz, a line of non-alcoholic sparkling drink mixers, and followed it in 2023 with Betty Booze, an alcoholic extension of the brand. In 2024 she launched the hair-care brand Blake Brown Beauty. An earlier lifestyle venture, the e-commerce site Preserve, launched in 2014 and closed after about a year, which published profiles note as part of her business record rather than a continuing operation.

Net worth

According to Celebrity Net Worth, Blake Lively has a net worth of $30 million as an individual estimate. The site is careful to separate that figure from household wealth: if combined communal assets with her husband Ryan Reynolds are included, the total is much higher, with Celebrity Net Worth listing a communal figure of $380 million. Readers should therefore treat $30 million as her solo estimate, not a statement of the couple’s combined finances, and like all celebrity net worth figures it is an estimate built from public information rather than an audited account.

The components behind the estimate span three decades of work. Her Gossip Girl salary reached a reported $60,000 per episode at the show’s peak, and her film salaries grew with leading roles in The Age of Adaline, The Shallows and A Simple Favor. Celebrity Net Worth also reports details from an unsealed contract connected to It Ends With Us, describing a $1.75 million base salary plus a 10 percent share of gross proceeds, a backend participation the site estimates generated a payout exceeding $35 million given the film’s worldwide gross. Her business interests, Betty Buzz, Betty Booze and Blake Brown Beauty, add a further component, although the private value of those stakes is not publicly disclosed, which is one reason published solo estimates have stayed close to the $30 million figure for several years.

Personal life and family

Lively met Ryan Reynolds while filming Green Lantern in 2010 and began dating him in 2011. They married on September 9, 2012, in a private ceremony in South Carolina. The couple have four children: daughters James, born in December 2014, Inez, born in September 2016, and Betty, born in October 2019, and a son, Olin, born in 2023. The family is known for keeping the children’s lives largely private while the parents maintain a public, often humorous, rapport with each other in interviews and on social media.

Her wider family remains central to her biography. Her parents, Ernie and Elaine Lively, both worked in the industry that she and all four of her siblings entered: her brother Eric Lively, her half-sister Robyn Lively, her half-sister Lori Lively and her half-brother Jason Lively. In December 2024, Lively became involved in legal proceedings connected to the production of It Ends With Us; the dispute with the film’s director and co-star is ongoing litigation, and this profile records only that the matter exists without taking any position on its claims.

Instagram

Blake Lively’s official Instagram account is @blakelively, where she posts about film projects, her Betty Buzz, Betty Booze and Blake Brown brands, fashion appearances and occasional family moments. Because follower counts change daily and vary by source, no exact follower figure is stated as fact here. Readers should rely on the verified @blakelively account and treat similarly named profiles as fan pages.

Closing summary

Blake Lively’s profile runs from a Tarzana childhood inside an acting family to two distinct careers. Born on August 25, 1987, to Ernie and Elaine Lively, and raised alongside Eric, Robyn, Lori and Jason, she broke through in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, became a television star as Serena van der Woodsen on Gossip Girl, and then proved her range in The Town, The Age of Adaline, The Shallows, A Simple Favor and It Ends With Us. Married to Ryan Reynolds since 2012 and the mother of James, Inez, Betty and Olin, she has added founder roles at Betty Buzz, Betty Booze and Blake Brown Beauty to her acting work, with an individual net worth estimated at $30 million according to Celebrity Net Worth.