Vanessa Abrams

Vanessa Abrams


The childhood best friend of Dan Humphrey. Prior to Dan’s relationship with Serena, she and Dan were inseparable, and the two developed a mutual attraction that was dashed when she moved to Vermont. A year later, she returned to move in with her big sister, just as Dan was trying to make things work out with Serena. Despite her continued attraction to Dan, she backed off when she saw that Dan genuinely loved Serena. Later, she strikes up a relationship with Nate Archibald. Unlike most of the cast, Vanessa is home-schooled, and thus has the free time to man a cafe she added to Rufus’s art gallery during his summer absence.