Leighton Marissa Meester is an American actress, singer, and model. She is best known for her starring role as the devious socialite Blair Waldorf on Gossip Girl on The CW.

Meet Leighton Meester’s Mom Constance Meester, And Dad Douglas Meester

Leighton’s parents are Constance Lynn Meester (mother) and Douglas Jay (father). Her surname, Meester, is Dutch for “master” or “teacher”. Her father is of approximately one-quarter German, one-quarter Dutch, one-quarter Irish, and one-quarter English ancestry. Her maternal grandfather was the son of German immigrants, and her maternal grandmother had English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh ancestry.

Her mother Constance Meester served a federal prison sentence for her involvement in a drug ring that smuggled marijuana from Jamaica to the United States in 1983.