Serena van der Woodsen
Played by: Blake LivelyBio
Serena van der Woodsen is smart and super pretty ... but is constantly being told she is not working to her full potential.
Serena van der Woodsen is also surprisingly vulnerable, despite seemingly having it all together on the surface.
Like Blair Waldorf, her best friend (but with whom she has a strained relationship) Serena and her family are prominent in New York society
Given her beauty and personality, Serena enjoys a steady string of admirers, namely Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgley) and Nate Archibald (Chace Crawford) at present, but also numerous others in the past.
After a scandalous affair with Nate - who was dating Blair Waldorf - Serena left N.Y.C., only to return a year later under a cloud of suspicion.
The subject of their secret - or not so secret - hookup remains sore and mysterious for Blair and others. But it turns out Serena left for another reason: A guy she was hooking up with overdosed on drugs and died while her friend Georgina Sparks filmed the whole thing.
Georgina later resurfaced and when Serena would not reenter their old, wild lifestyle, G threatened to blackmail her with the tape.
S then came clean about the overdose and ultimately G got hers - thanks to a little help from Blair and Chuck Bass, whose father Bart married Serena's mom in the season finale.
Despite the attention she receives from the opposite sex, Serena constantly longs for real romance... which she eventually finds with Dan Humphrey, a middle class guy from Brooklyn who sweeps her off her feet with is genuine charm.
But her web of lies and distancing herself over the situation with G - who also tried to meddle with Dan - scared him away, and the two are not together... at least for now.
Serena has one younger brother, Eric van der Woodsen, and lives with her mother, Lily van der Woodsen, as well as her new stepfather, Bart Bass, and stepbrother and friend, Chuck Bass.
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Serena: I want to finish what Diana started. I want to take Gossip Girl down for good.
Nate: I'm with you. I think we should use The Spectator to do it.
Blair: Just because we can't be together doesn't mean I don't love you.
January 28th, 2012 2:59 PM
s I think you're super awesome does not change.
You adore me do not say otherwise. Kiss kiss gossip girl
Rank: Regular Character
September 15th, 2011 9:09 PM
these profiles really need to be updated.. LOL
August 26th, 2011 3:28 AM
SERENA is the best in GG.
and i love SERENATE!!
August 16th, 2011 7:27 AM
serena u r fantastic i luv u guys u r all wonderful
July 26th, 2011 11:32 AM
I love gossip girl too much.
July 2nd, 2011 9:18 AM
I like serena and dan but I've got a problem with serena she is alwaz worried abt wat blair would say bt not wat is gud 4 her.As 4 chuck I hate him.
June 10th, 2011 1:30 PM
She's a slut.
June 9th, 2011 8:04 AM
I love S and I identify my self to hers. She is just me.
June 2nd, 2011 10:43 PM
serena is the best character in gg!!
i love dan also :]
blairs a b!tch >:[
May 26th, 2011 10:44 PM
A simply insufferable character. She's self righteouss to a fault and seems to believe the only reason she doesn't shine more than she does is cause she chooses not to. When someone wrongs her shes quick to point it out but has no qualms doing the same to others. She stole Jennys party. Moved in on a married man. Tried to seduce a teacher in grade 10 tried to seduce a prof. Slept with her best friends boyfriend. She also defends people blindly, ie her estranged father and an ex con.