Kelly Rutherford is one of the most popular and richest TV Actress who was born on November 6, 1968 in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, United States. Widely known for her roles as Lily van der Woodsen on the CW series Gossip Girl and Megan Lewis on FOX’s Melrose Place. She also played Sam Whitmore on the soap opera Generations.
She starred as the mother of Blake Lively‘s character on CW’s hit show Gossip Girl.
Kelly Rutherford (born November 6, 1968) is an American actress. She is known for her television roles as Stephanie “Sam” Whitmore on the NBC daytime soap opera Generations (1989–1991), as Megan Lewis on the Fox primetime soap opera Melrose Place (1996–1999), and as Lily van der Woodsen on The CW series Gossip Girl (2007–2012).
Rutherford began her career on daytime soap operas. She appeared on Loving in 1987, and later was cast as a regular on Generations from 1989 to 1991. In 1992 she joined the cast of the ABC drama Homefront.
Her mother, Harriet Ann Edwards, was a model and a writer. For six months, she was married to Carlos Tarajano. She then married Daniel Giersch in 2006, and the couple had two children before divorcing in 2010.
