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Leighton Meester is costarring with Garrett Hedlund, Tim McGraw and Gwyneth Paltrow in the December 22nd release Country Strong. The newly released poster focuses on the four stars of the relationship drama film with country music theme. Here is the official synopsis:

Soon after a rising young singer-songwriter (Hedlund) gets involved with a fallen, emotionally unstable country star (Paltrow), the pair embarks on a career resurrection tour helmed by her husband/manager (McGraw) and featuring a beauty-queen-turned-singer (Meester). Between concerts, romantic entanglements and old demons threaten to derail them all.

Leighton will be in a number of films at the beginning of 2011. First up on February 4th is The Roommate with Cam Gigandet, Aly Michalka and Katerina Graham. The following weekend is Monte Carlo with Selena Gomez, Katie Cassidy and Cory Monteith. She then hits the big screen with Hugh Laurie in The Oranges.

In Meester’s immediate future is the return of Taylor Momsen to Gossip Girl on the Monday October 25th episode “Easy J.” Momsen’s Jenny returns for a chance to meet Project Runway’s Tim Gunn (guest starring as himself) and Blair is not happy to see Little J back in Manhattan.

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She’s one of the most fashionable young actresses so it makes sense for Leighton Meester to consider designing her own line of clothing and accessories.

“The more I think about it the more it sounds like something I would want to do,” she tells us. “I don’t know if it’d be any time soon but I’d really like to work on a collaboration with somebody – I always have ideas for stuff like that. The problem is I always have so much admiration for so many designers and for so many different styles, it’d difficult to hone in on just one look but why not?”

Counting Audrey Hepburn, Helen Mirren and Cate Blanchett as women whose style sense she admires, Meester looks at each for inspiration.

The Gossip Girl actress has a number of films coming out next year: Country Strong with Gwyneth Paltrow, The Oranges with Hugh Laurie, The Roommate with Minka Kelly and Monte Carlo with Selena Gomez so she will have to squeeze in a fashion collaboration but she would have a great point of view to work from.

A rosy pink dress and a cheery smile accompany Leighton Meester on the cover of Cosmo UK September 2010 issue. The Gossip Girl actress gives up the details of her life compared to her GG character Blair Waldorf:

• On playing a mean character: “I am living my dream and having the time of my life! I’m lucky because I get to do that all day long and play a character who has a lot of noble qualities as well. I am really lucky she is such a well-written character.”
• On whether people expect she will be like Blair in real life: “Most people just run away, so perhaps that’s what they’re thinking! I think for the most part people understand that it’s just a character.”
• On whether her high school experience was similar to Gossip Girl: “The complete opposite, to be honest. I had lived in NYC before but not in the Upper East Side – it was in the Upper West Side, which was very different. When I was a teenager I was in a public high school. I certainly was not popular by any means, and I didn’t have a car or a lot of money, so it was very different.”

Leighton is hard at work in New York on Gossip Girl and she has lots of movies due out next year (see the full list here.)

Australian magazine Girlfriend also gets the Meester touch this month. So much Meester magazine love, so little time.

Australian magazine Girlfriend nabbed Leighton Meester for the cover of the August 2010 edition.  For the issue, Meester gave the mag some of her personal philosophies on how to be your happiest:

Be Natural: “I never wear make-up when I’m not at work. It can make you forget what you look like, and I’ve grown to really love the way I look without it.”

Have Priorities: “I’ve never been crazy. I’m a very good girl, to be honest. I don’t do anything to hurt anyone. Honestly, all I ever do is work. ”

Resist the Pressure: “I am this way and that’s it. I’ve never been under pressure to lose weight – if I want to eat chocolate, I will.”

She’s certainly right about her work ethic. The actress, who just wrapped filming the movie Monte Carlo with Selena Gomez and Cory Monteith, is currently working in New York on the new season of her hit TV show Gossip Girl. She has a ton of big screen projects for release next year, including The Roommate with Cam Gigandet (my personal fave ex-vampire) and The Oranges with Hugh Laurie.

See the scans for more Leighton goodness here.

Wearing a lovely fringe accented dress from Giambattista Valli, Gossip Girl actress Leighton Meester casually stole the spotlight as she sauntered down the red carpet for the premiere of her movie with Tina Fey and Steve Carrell, the comedy Date Night. Choosing black strappy PHI shoes to compliment, Meester’s outfit was stellar. Check out all her pics below:

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Leighton Meester will once again be on Hugh Laurie’s radar. The Gossip Girl star was a guest for two episodes on Laurie’s hit show House, M.D. back in 2006. Now the duo will make big screen magic as lovers for the indie film The Oranges.

The story about a man who falls for the daughter of a family friend and begins a relationship that turns everyone’s world topsy turvy, looks to start shooting in New York City in April. The pair had great chemistry the first time around, let’s hope they capture that spark again.