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Blake Lively as Serena van der Woodsen

Blake Lively, who played the "it" girl Serena van der Woodsen on the series, has been one busy bee since Gossip Girl ended in 2012. Lively's film credits include Savages (2012), The Age of Adaline (2015), The Shallows (2016), A Simple Favor (2018) and The Rhythm Section (2020).

She has also been busy off-screen — Lively married actor and Green Lantern costar Ryan Reynolds on a plantation in South Carolina in 2012. Lively and Reynolds share four children, welcoming their fourth baby in February 2023.

Penn Badgley as Dan Humphrey

After his aspiring writer character Dan Humphrey revealed he was the titular "Gossip Girl" on the series finale, Penn Badgley found critical success playing singer Jeff Buckley in the 2012 film Greetings from Tim Buckley. Following a quiet period, Badgley emerged on the Netflix series You, which he also produces. He is also a musician — in 2015, Badgley released an album, Centerfold, with his band, Mothxr.

Badgley and Lively dated for three years both on- and off-screen until their split in 2010. In 2017, Badgley tied the knot with British singer-songwriter Domino Kirke in a small courthouse ceremony. They welcomed their first child together, son James, in August 2020.

Leighton Meester as Blair Waldorf

Following Gossip Girl, Leighton Meester continued adding acting credits to her résumé. Meester appeared in the Robert Downey Jr.-led film The Judge and hit the Broadway stage as Curley's wife in Of Mice and Men in 2014.

While also focusing on her music career — rebounding from 2009's clubby Robin Thicke duet "Somebody to Love" with 2014's Heartstrings, an acoustic album with shades of Carly Simon — Meester returned to the small screen on Making History, Single Parents and Hulu's How I Met Your Father. She was also featured in the 2022 Netflix original The Weekend Away.

In 2014, Meester made millennials' dreams come true by marrying The O.C.'s Adam Brody, whom she also starred alongside in the 2014 indie film Life Partners. They have two children, daughter Arlo Day and a son whose name the couple hasn't revealed.

Ed Westwick as Chuck Bass

Ed Westwick initially kept a low profile after playing bad boy hotel heir Chuck Bass on Gossip Girl – but the British actor later returned to TV, starring on Wicked City, Snatch and the British sitcom White Gold. He also starred in 2021's Me You Madness and 2022's Wolves of War.

In 2017, Westwick was accused of sexual assault by three women but was not charged the following year in light of insufficient evidence.

Chace Crawford as Nate Archibald

It took a little while for Chace Crawford's career to pick up steam following his turn as the hapless Nate Archibald, but he starred on the short-lived ABC soap opera Blood and Oil in 2015 and then executive produced and starred in the 2016 baseball film Undrafted. Since 2019, he has been a series regular on the Prime Video superhero series The Boys.

In 2020, Crawford was named PEOPLE's Hottest Bachelor, an honor that he said at the time was "pretty surreal."

Taylor Momsen as Jenny Humphrey

Little J's punk phase transcended Gossip Girl: Since leaving as a season regular in 2010, former child star Taylor Momsen quit acting to focus on her rock band, The Pretty Reckless (though she returned to Gossip Girl as a guest star for the final episode).

The band has released four albums and has had seven singles top Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart.

Jessica Szohr as Vanessa Abrams

Jessica Szohr, who played Dan's childhood friend and an aspiring filmmaker, has booked a string of roles since the series finale of Gossip Girl, including the films The Internship (2013) and Ted 2 (2015).

She's had even more TV success, starring on the 2014 Hallmark original Lucky in Love and the short-lived USA Network series Complications before joining Kingdom, Twin Peaks, Shameless and The Orville. Szohr also starred in the 2022 Discovery+ holiday film Designing Christmas.

Szohr announced her engagement in May 2022 to NHL player Brad Richardson, with whom she shares a daughter, Bowie Ella.

Connor Paolo as Eric van der Woodsen

It was bad enough that Eric, the voice of reason in his crazy family, appeared less regularly on Gossip Girl when Paolo landed the role of Declan on Revenge in 2011. Then, his character got cruelly killed off on the season 2 finale of that series, and the ABC drama just wasn't the same.

Connor Paolo, who played Eric, has since had several roles in independent films and has appeared as a guest star on TV shows like Business Doing Pleasure. His 2023 credits include Ambush, The Young Wife and Fire Island.

Kelly Rutherford as Lily van der Woodsen

As mother to Serena and Eric, Lily played a part in plenty of drama with her children throughout the series.

Since the end of Gossip Girl, Kelly Rutherford has mostly appeared as a guest star on shows like Reckless, Being Mary Jane, Quantico and Gone and appearing in recurring roles on Dynasty and Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists. She has also been featured in TV films, including Night of the Wild (2015), Love, of Course (2018) and All My Husband's Wives (2020).

Rutherford has two children with her ex-husband Daniel Giersch. The former couple fought a six-year legal battle over the custody of the children, which ended in 2015.

Matthew Settle as Rufus Humphrey

In addition to being a former rock star and father of Dan and Jenny, Matthew Settle's Rufus Humphrey dealt with his own personal drama with Lily throughout the six seasons of Gossip Girl.

Settle has had a few roles since the series wrapped, including in the 2014 horror film Ouija and a guest appearance on the TV show Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders.

He has a daughter, Aven Angelica, with his former wife and model Naama Nativ.

Kristen Bell as the Voice of "Gossip Girl"

Kristen Bell took a backseat on Gossip Girl as its uncredited narrator, but she has certainly come a long way from being the inner voice of Dan Humphrey. Bell was the only principal cast member from the original series to reprise her role on HBO Max's Gossip Girl reboot.

Bell starred on Veronica Mars and House of Lies before landing the lead role on the NBC series The Good Place, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination. She reprised her fan-favorite Veronica Mars role in a 2014 movie and a 2019 Hulu reboot. Bell also appeared in the Prime Video film The People We Hate at the Wedding and on the Netflix series The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window, both in 2022.

However, Bell is probably best known for providing the voice of Princess Anna in the blockbuster Disney films Frozen (2013) and Frozen II (2019).

In 2013, Bell married her When in Rome costar, Dax Shepard, at the Beverly Hills courthouse; they have two daughters, Lincoln and Delta.

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