THEN & NOW: Here's what the cast of 'Gossip Girl' is up to 5 years after the show ended

Since then, she's made her way back into the movie scene. Most recently, she fought off a shark in "The Shallows" and is playing a blind woman in 2017's "All I See Is You."

She's also taken time off to marry funny-guy Ryan Reynolds and take care of their two adorable daughters.

Leighton Meester brought the sassy Blair Waldorf from the "Gossip Girl" books to life.

She took home the award for Choice TV Actress: Drama at the Teen Choice Awards twice. She just sold one of her awards on eBay for charity.

She's set to return to the small screen for Fox's comedy "Making History" in 2017.

Since marrying Adam Brody and having a child with him, she's made her role as mom one of her first priorities. She also sings.

Lonely Boy, aka actor Penn Badgley, was nominated for a Teen Choice Award six times for playing Brooklyn babe Dan Humphrey.

During a break in shooting for "Gossip Girl," he acted alongside Emma Stone in "Easy A."

He's mostly worked with his band MOTHXR, but is set to star alongside Zoë Kravitz and Macaulay Culkin in "Adam Green's Aladdin" as the Prince of Monaco.

The set of "Adam Green's Aladdin" must be pretty awkward considering he's working with his ex.

Chase Crawford was the eye of every teenager's affection while playing Nate Archibald.

In 2010, three years into GG, he was arrested for a marijuana possession in Texas.

He made waves as a TV actor again in 2016 with ABC's "Blood & Oil."

When the show's episode count got cut during production, many critics said that the show wouldn't be making a return the next year. Turns out they were, sadly, right.

There was nobody better to play Upper East Side bad boy Chuck Bass than Ed Westwick.

He won the Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Villain in 2008 and 2009.

Ed also moved from the CW to ABC starring in "Wicked City" before it was canceled. You'll be able to see him on the big screen in his upcoming films "Take Down" and "Jekyll Island."

Like many of his cast mates, he was also in a band. He was the lead singer of The Filthy Youth.

Taylor Momsen went from good girl to goth queen playing Dan's little sister Jenny Humphrey.

She hasn't acted since the show ended in 2012.

Momsen evolved alongside Jenny to become a lead singer for rock band, The Pretty Wreckless.

The band has released two albums, 2010's "Light Me Up" and 2014's "Going to Hell" and just released their third, "Who You Selling For?" in 2016.

Dan and Jenny's father Rufus Humphrey was played by Matthew Settle.

Before his "Gossip Girl" days, he was known for his work on two award-winning mini-series, HBO's "Band of Brothers" and TNT's "Into the West."

Settle has starred in a couple TV movies since "Gossip Girl," but is heading to theaters in May 2016 in "The Faith of Anna Waters."

He has two kids, one with his ex-wife Naama Nativ, and another with his current longtime girlfriend, Maria Alfonsin.

Kelly Rutherford played matriarch Lily va der Woodsen.

It was rumored a few times that Settle and Rutherford, who were married on screen, were dating in real life, but that proved to be false.

She's since had small appearances on "Jane The Virgin," "Bones," and "Quantico."

In the midst of shooting "Gossip Girl," Rutherford filed from divorce from her husband, leading the couple into a grueling custody battle over their two children. In the end they were granted join custody, but the judge decided that the two children were to live with their dad (who was deported from the United States) in France.

The legal fees eventually caused Rutherford to file bankruptcy.

Connor Paolo played Serena's younger brother Eric.

This was his breakout role, but he did have a small part in the Oscar-winning movie "Mystic River."

Since his days playing Jenny's right-hand man, he's been on the hit show "Revenge" and is working on "Atlas of the Soul" with James Earl Jones.

Paolo remained friends with Momsen after they both left the show and has said that he'd do anything to get her back in front of the camera.

"If I’m ever in a position to cast anything or to put anything together, she's always at the top of my list," he told The Hollywood Reporter.

Jessica Szohr played Dan's best friend, Blair's enemy, Jenny's confidant, and Chace's lover, Vanessa Abrams.

For a couple years during the "Gossip Girl" era, Szohr and Westwick had a budding, off-screen romance.

Abrams has made her rounds on both the big and small screens since the series ended. She was in "The Internship," with Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn, and starred in TV's "Kingdom" and "Complications."

She was also in "Two Night Stand" where she worked with Miles Teller.

Michelle Trachtenberg played a perfect Georgina Sparks in "Gossip Girl."

Like her co-star Westwick, she was also nominated for Choice TV Villain at the Teen Choice Awards in 2012.

She recently starred in the Lifetime movie "Sister Cities," which aired in September 2016.

Before she was the gossip queen herself, she was in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Weeds." You also might recognize her from the children's movie "Harriet the Spy."

"Gossip Girl" wouldn't have been complete without Dorota, played by Zuzanna Szadkowski.

She even got her own breakout mini series that aired online after each episode.

Szadkowski has since been in "The Knick," "Elementary," and, most notably, HBO's "Girls."

"Girls" wasn't her first HBO appearance. She also had a small role in "The Sopranos."