In a childhood that reads like a subplot from Paul Thomas Anderson's Licorice Pizza, Blair was raised in the San Fernando Valley by her dental hygienist mother and broke into showbiz at five playing a "Giant Girl" in the sci-fi romp Land of the Giants. She was given the stage name Blair Aames by her agent and wore curlers to school on audition days. Thankfully, Blair ditched the curlers and changed her name back to Tefkin, studied drama at San Francisco's American Conservatory Theatre, then jumped into comedy with The Groundlings in L.A.

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Her breakout role was in the iconic mini-series V, playing Robin Maxell, the teen mom of the alien's lizard baby. And though she played the Pat Benatar wannabe in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Blair didn't discover her own voice until she picked up the bass and started writing songs — wry, bittersweet and uniquely hers.

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Blair continued acting (Greenberg, Dream Lover, Three For The Road, Get A Life), but a chance meeting with a music exec at a Hollywood diner led to a publishing deal with Universal-PolyGram. Music became a full-time pursuit with major dates on the Lilith Fair tour and the release of her first album, Shocked and Devastated.

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Blair wrote and performed an original tune, "If Your Love Is True," in the film The Anniversary Party, and her song "Troubles" was featured on the soundtrack. She's written songs for numerous movie and T.V. projects including Stuart Little and The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. One of the highest compliments came when Marianne Faithfull asked to cover Blair's song "Good Advice," which was also featured in Glen Ballard's film Clubland.

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Reviewers have described her music by turns as "artful pop suffused with a darkly comic outlook," "witty and pretty, fractured, poignant, and often hilarious," and "spitefully pleasurable" — or as Uncabaret's Beth Lapides once noted: "They're like bonsai trees, encapsulating the beauty of smallness."

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Most recently, Blair has turned her attention back to children's material with a rhyming picture book, The Van de Rose Christmas — a holiday romp about a flamboyant fashion icon whose meticulously planned Christmas party is unexpectedly

derailed when her three daughters have ideas of their own!