What the Cast of "Gossip Girl" Are Up to Now

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Blake Lively (Serena van der Woodsen)

The 28-year-old took a break from acting after GG to build her now defunct lifestyle website Preserve. She returned to the screen in the 2015 movie The Age of Adaline, and welcomed her first child with husband Ryan Reynolds in 2014.

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Leighton Meester (Blair Waldorf)

This beauty, 29, made her Broadway debut in 2014's Of Mice and Men and gave birth to a baby girl in August 2015 with husband Adam Brody. Meester provided vocals on Cobra Starship's song "Good Girls Go Bad" in 2009.

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Penn Badgley (Dan Humphrey)

The 29-year-old has largely been focused on his band MOTHXR over the past few years. Their debut album, Centerfold, was released February 26, 2016.

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Chace Crawford (Nate Archibald)

The actor, 30, most recently starred in the short-lived ABC series Blood & Oil. He has three movies in the works for 2016, including the horror film Eloise.

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Ed Westwick (Chuck Bass)

The 28-year-old Brit starred as Tybalt in the 2013 remake of Romeo & Juliet and appeared on the short-lived ABC crime drama Wicked City.

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Kelly Rutherford (Lily van der Woodsen)

The actress, 47, has appeared on several TV series since GG ended, including Bones, Reckless and The Mysteries of Laura.

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Matthew Settle (Rufus Humphrey)

The 46-year-old has appeared in the films Ouija, The Faith of Anna Waters and Valentine over the past couple of years.

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Taylor Momsen (Jenny Humphrey)

The 22-year-old has stepped away from acting completely to focus on her band, The Pretty Reckless. They frequently tour.

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Jessica Szohr (Vanessa Abrams)

The brunette beauty, 30, has guest-starred on the TV series Complications and Kingdom. She also appeared in the Seth MacFarlane comedy Ted 2.

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Connor Paolo (Eric van der Woodsen)

The 25-year-old played Declan Porter on the ABC drama Revenge until 2013. He has two movies in the works, Outlaw and Like Lambs, for 2016.

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Michelle Trachtenberg (Georgina Sparks)

The much-loved GG guest star, 30, has appeared on Criminal Minds, NCIS: Los Angeles and Sleepy Hollow over the past few years. She recently completed the film Sister Cities with Amy Smart and Alfred Molina.

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Kaylee DeFer (Ivy Dickens)

The 29-year-old hasn't acted since the 2013 thriller Darkroom. The same year, she welcomed her first child, son Theodore, with boyfriend Michael Fitzpatrick.

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It's been a while since one of our favorite shows ended but the cast of Gossip Girl have kept busy since then! See what the group have been up to since the end of the show.