Ed Westwick: Recent News

Sep 08, 2011

Ed Westwick Takes His Brother to the U.S. Open

Sep 08, 2011

Spotted: Leighton Meester & Ed Westwick Greet a Duck on the Gossip Girl Set

Apr 14, 2011

Ed Westwick Buys Drinks for Female Clubgoers in L.A.

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Ed Westwick: Snapshot

Name: Ed Westwick
Date of Birth: June 27, 1987
Birth Place: Hertfordshire, England

British actor Ed Westwick has made his Gossip Girl alter-ego Chuck Bass look like an altarboy! The unexpected heartthrob's rock star and womanizing ways (he fronts the band "The Filthy Youth" and has been linked to Drew Barrymore & costar Jessica Szohr) has provided endless tabloid fodder for gossip bloggers.

Pre-Gossip fame, Westwick trained at London's National Youth Theater, making his mark in American films with bit parts in Children of Men and Anthony Minghella's Breaking and Entering. But it's his star-making turn as calculating lothario Chuck Bass that has made him a household name and landed him on PEOPLE's 100 Most Beautiful list in 2008. Westwick can next be seen in 2009's S. Darko, the sequel to the cult classic Donnie Darko.

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Ed Westwick: Video

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Ed Westwick: Five Fun Facts

The part of Chuck Bass was almost recast when Ed Westwick couldn't secure a work visa to travel to the U.S. His paperwork came through the day before the Gossip Girl pilot began shooting.
If he wasn't an actor, Ed Westwick would be a landscape gardener. "I love just planting flowers during the summer," the actor told Seventeen. "There's something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful."
Ed Westwick's weirdest fan gift? "He gave me my very own Chuck Bass/Ed Westwick lunchbox. I believe he made it himself," Westwick said.
Ed Westwick has "21G" (short for 21 grams) tattooed just below his left shoulder, a reference to the purported weight of the human soul.
Ed Westwick partly modeled Chuck Bass' American accent on the character Carlton Banks from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

Ed Westwick: Biography

mid-1990s: London Calling
Born to a psychologist mother and university lecturer father, Westwick begins acting at age 6 when his mother enrolls him in a drama program. At 18, he joins the National Youth Theatre in London and eventually lands small roles in 2006's Children of Men and Breaking and Entering.
2007: September 19
Damn That Mother-Chucker!
Westwick wins his big break as womanizing and manipulative Upper East Sider Chuck Bass on The CW's Gossip Girl. The actor quickly garners praise for his charismatic performance and fearlessly flamboyant wardrobe. "The man will rock a headband and a crazy basketball jersey, or like a bowtie and a seersucker suit, without one ounce of self-awareness," series creator Josh Schwartz tells W. GG also stars Leighton Meester, Blake Lively, Chace Crawford, Penn Badgley and Taylor Momsen.
2008: March
Gossip Guys Come Out!
With costars Chace Crawford and Penn Badgley, Westwick appears on gay and lesbian lifestyle magazine Out. The magazine calls the show a "cultural phenomenon whose early adopters weren't actually teenage girls but rather gay men trapped in arrested development or seeking to vicariously prolong their youth." The mag also praises Westwick's portrayal of Bass, adding, "He channels James Spader circa Pretty in Pink to delicious results."