Anyone who’s got “Girl at rock concert” (in Kids in the Hall’s Brain Candy) listed as one of their first film credits was probably destined for a strange ride through show business — and, so far, that’s just fine with Selma Blair.

From being a face in the Brain Candy crowd, Blair carried on to land a standout role in Cruel Intentions, the youthful, contemporary remake of Dangerous Liaisons starring Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon and Sarah Michelle Gellar. A romantic lead in the Hellboy franchise followed, as well as the supporting role in Legally Blonde and the TV show Kath & Kim, but Blair removed herself from the casting Rolodex shortly thereafter.

“I took a step back the last few years and haven’t worked. I took care of some kids and horses. I actually bought a horse … and it saved my life,” says Blair.

“I started riding seriously at 17 … show jumping. Now I do dressage, also, but I finally decided last year I’m not going to devote everything in my life to the next movie or the next TV show. I’m going to move on.”

Now back in the saddle professionally, as well as personally, Blair is in the midst of shooting a Vancouver indie thriller called Replicas. The debut feature from music video/ magazine publishers Justin Tyler Close and Jeremy Power Regimbal, Replicas features Blair in the lead role as a mother trying to enjoy some quality time with her family — when things go horribly wrong.

“A friend gave me the script and it was something I hadn’t done before. (So) I said yes and attached myself. It’s a really quick shoot, and when you do an indie with a new director and a new producer, you feel their excitement,” says Blair of the film currently shooting in Langley, B.C.

“I’m definitely the veteran on set. I’m certainly the oldest. It’s a young crew, and they’re so happy to see their dream coming together.”

As someone who describes herself as “a tough smile” who “never had a lot of twinkle and shine,” Blair says she’s lost some edges with age, and says the nice thing about getting older is that she can finally detach from any ingenue expectations.

“I’ve never been the most ambitious actress. I don’t look like Julia Roberts; that’s not what I bring physically to a role. Now I can play mother roles and it works. I feel something good is happening,” she says.

“If I could dream of the kind of career I’d like to have, it would look like Catherine Keener’s or Dianne Wiest’s — OK, I really am fantasizing here. But I think those actors are a huge pleasure to watch.”

Blair shouldn’t sell herself short. She, too, has a proven track record for being interesting, whether it’s as the villain-turned-ally in Legally Blonde or an ill-fated turn in The Fog.

“So it’s not Titanic,” she says. “I get confidence from doing it consistently, even if it’s under the radar. I can say to myself: ‘OK, I’m sticking around. I’m going to keep doing this,’ ” she says.

With personal and professional esteem surging, Blair says the other half of the confidence equation is crushing the bogeymen.

“It’s not an overwhelming thing. It’s just that somewhere, there’s this little bit of knowledge that someone is willing to take you down a notch. And you know, to not be paranoid of it, but just to realize it, and that’s the way a lot of people work,” she says.

“You can’t do anything about it except be mindful, and then move on with your life.”

And Blair is certainly moving. In addition to Replicas, she’s working with Todd Solondz on Dark Horse alongside Christopher Walken and Mia Farrow.

She’s also slated to appear in Four Saints, a First World War drama about brave nurses, and A Different Kind of Love with Richard Dreyfuss.

“I love Todd Solondz. I love a director with great vision who really knows what he wants.

“It makes the job easier, because you can understand the vision that much better and communicate it better. I want to do that for every director.”

Replicas wraps this month, with a release date to be determined.

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Josh Close, James D’Arcy, Selma Blair and Rachel Miner have been cast in the home invasion thriller The Replicas. Music video helmer Jeremy Regimbal is directing the project, which just began production.

Close also wrote the screenplay, which follows a couple that heads with their family to a vacation cottage to grieve after the death of their youngest child. Not long after, they are visited by the Sakowskis, a couple with an unhelpful agenda.

Kim Roberts and Tina Pehme of Sepia Films are producing along with Justin Close of The Studio Movement.

Josh Close, who is repped by Buchwald & Associates and Untitled Entertainment, was a regular on the ABC series The Unusuals. On the feature side, he has appeared in The Exorcism of Emily Rose and Diary of the Dead.

Repped by CAA and Management 360, D’Arcy has appeared in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World and An American Haunting. He will next appear as Ian Fleming in Age of Heroes and in Madonna’s W.E.

Blair, repped by Gersh and Global Creative, most recently appeared in Hellboy II: The Golden Army and Feast of Love. She is filming Todd Solondz’s Dark Horse.

Repped by the Kohner Agency and Untitled, Miner appeared on the Showtime series Californication and in the films Bully and The Black Dahlia.

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Yesterday, Selma Blair was photographed at the DecadesTwo.1 At AnQi By Crustacean event and I have just added 3 photos of her at the event into our gallery!

After lengthy negotiations, NBC has closed a deal for Jamie Foxx’s drama project Tommy’s Little Girl based on the trailer Foxx shot with Selma Blair, Paul Sorvino, Tony Sirico and James Russo. The network also has picked up Life Is Good, a comedy from Unhitched creators Chris Pappas and Mike Bernier and Hangover 2 writer Scot Armstrong. Based on Foxx’s idea, Girl is described as Le Femme Nikita meets The Sopranos and centers on a young girl (Blair) raised in a mafia family who is hidden away in an orphanage after her family is murdered by a competing mafia crime boss. She grows up to become an attorney by day, and a deadly, well trained killer by night, as she avenges her family’s murder and attempts to locate her last living relative. Jorge Zamacona has been tapped to write the script and executive produce. Also executive producing are Foxx and Deon Taylor through their recently launched No Brainer Films. Foxx took an entrepreneurial approach with the project, shooting a trailer for it over the summer that was then taken to the networks.

The key actors in the trailer — Blair, Sorvino and Sirico — are still attached though there are no deals in place with NBC. Foxx and Taylor co-wrote and co-directed the trailer, which was financed by a private investor. Girl will now be produced by UMS. In addition to Girl, Foxx is also executive producing a midseason sketch comedy series for Fox. Foxx and Zamacona are with CAA.

Life, also from UMS, centers on Andy, husband and father of two young girls, whose mellow suburban family world is thrown into chaos when he is found by Dru, the 19-year-old mixed race son he never knew he had. Andy is over the moon to learn that he has a son and that enthusiasm is more than Dru can handle. Pappas and Bernier, repped by CAA and Epidemic, will write the project and will executive produce it with Armstrong, who has a first-look deal with NBC, and Ravi Nandan, an executive at Armstrong’s American Work production company.

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I have just added 6 HQ photos of Selma Blair at the 2010 Free The Slaves Benefit into our gallery!

Lorena Rincon, Rhona Mitra, Selma Blair and Melanie Lynskey are toplining World War I drama “Four Saints,” produced by White Wing Enterprises and Andrew Ferns (“Pursued”).

Cary Elwes and Arnold Vosloo are also starring. “Saints,” written and directed by Jean-Pierre Isbouts, tells the story of four young women who defied the British Army — as well as German bombs and bullets — to operate an illegal medical dressing station on the Allied front lines during World War I. It’s based on Isbouts’ novel “Angels in Flanders.”

Principal photography is scheduled to start in November for a six-week shoot around Calgary, Alberta.

White Wing is producing with the support of the Alberta Production Plan, sales company Hollywood Wizard and Structured Capital Group.

With Rincon’s casting, Tayrona Entertainment Group has agreed to exec produce and distribute the film throughout Latin America on more than 1,000 screens next fall.

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According to EW.com, Selma Blair has signed on to a new movie called “Dark Horse”!

Christopher Walken, Mia Farrow, and Selma Blair will all appear in Dark Horse, an indie about a 30-something man who lives with his parents (who are played by Walken and Farrow).