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Who is Blake Lively’s actress older sister, Robyn? She joined her sibling at the Michael Kors show at NYFW and an NFL game with Taylor Swift, and married an actor from Disney’s High School Musical

Blake Lively’s sister Robyn is just as glam as the Hollywood icon is. Photos: @robynlively/Instagram

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Blake and Robyn Lively sitting front row with Anna Wintour (left) at Michael Kors’ show at New York Fashion Week 2024. Photo: @robynlively/Instagram
Oh, how we miss the Gossip Girl days! But this is close enough, sorta … Blake Lively, the actress who played the iconic GG character, just made a rare appearance with her older sis Robyn at New York Fashion Week’s Michael Kors show, where the ladies looked stunning as they watched models strut down the catwalk.
Robyn Lively strikes a pose, dressed in all white. Photo: @robynlively/Instagram

Blake, 36, turned heads in her dark brown giraffe-print coat with boots, while her 52-year-old sis rocked a black dress with flared long sleeves and animal-print pumps.

The duo – who have a 16-year age gap – were seen sitting front row with none other than Vogue’s editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. Their outing comes after Robyn attended an NFL game with Taylor Swift, her sis, Blake’s husband Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman last year.

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Robyn Lively’s family background

 

Robyn hails from a film-centric family. Her mum Elaine Lively is a talent agent who had three kids, daughters Lori and Robyn and son Jason, with her first husband Ronnie Lively, according to People.

Elaine then married actor and acting coach Ernie Lively in 1979, who adopted her children, states the publication. Elaine and Ernie then welcomed Blake’s older brother Eric in 1981, and Blake in 1987.

It seems like the Livelys were destined for careers in Hollywood, with Blake and her siblings all pursuing the acting route.

“I have a big family and no one ever treated me like a child. They always treated me like an adult, like an equal,” Blake previously told Ben Affleck in a profile for Interview Magazine in 2010.

She is also an actress

Robyn Lively comes from an acting family. Photo: @robynlively/Instagram

Robyn has over 109 acting credits to her name, according to her IMDB profile. Her first gig was back in 1978 in the TV movie Summer of My German Soldier, about a decade before Blake was born, and she’s since starred in films like The Karate Kid Part III, Letters to God, Wildcats, Teen Witch and many more.

She’s married with kids

Robyn Lively with her husband, Bart Johnson. Photo: @robynlively/Instagram

Robyn has been married to her husband Bart Johnson, 53, since 1999, and they share three children together, per People.

Robyn Lively (top right) with her happy family at Christmas. Photo: @robynlively/Instagram
Also an actor, Johnson has made appearances in nearly 80 films and TV shows so far, per his IMDB profile. And if he looks familiar to Disney fans who grew up in the noughties, that’s because he is. The actor is best known for his role as Coach Bolton in the High School Musical franchise with Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron, and he later starred in two episodes of the film trilogy’s spin-off show with Olivia Rodrigo, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series.

Robyn and her husband worked together on the film Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters in 2022.

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She’s gone to numerous events with her sister

Robyn and Blake Lively in matching ‘fits. Photo: @robynlively/Instagram

Robyn has supported her sister at several public events. Besides Michael Kors’ fashion shows, they’ve also been seen at a L’Oréal launch and the People’s Choice Awards in 2017.

Are Robyn Lively and Blake Lively close?

Blake and Robyn Lively (top right) with Blake’s husband Ryan Reynolds, Taylor Swift (centre) and Hugh Jackman (bottom left) at an NFL game in 2023. Photo: @robynlively/Instagram
Despite their huge age gap, the siblings are very close. “There’s a significant age gap, which feels almost nonexistent because she’s now a mum,” Robyn told Fox News Digital. “We have so many similarities. Our relationship is on a deeper level. We used to help each other with our projects and lines, things like that. Now we’re doing the mum thing together.”

The Shallows actress opened up in a rare comment about her upbringing in her Interview Magazine feature in 2010. “I have a big, close, loving family, and they’re all from the South, but because so many of them are actors, everyone was very normal about [acting]. It was just like any job to them. They always came home and talked about it around the dinner table the way any family talks about work, but it wasn’t anything special,” she said.

  • Blake Lively, the actress who played the iconic Gossip Girl character of Serena van der Woodsen, just made a rare appearance with her older sis Robyn at NYFW’s Michael Kors show
  • Robyn Lively, 52, is also an actress with over 100 credits to her name, starring in films like The Karate Kid Part III, Letters to God, Wildcats and Teen Witch