| Lauren Graham  AKA Lauren Helen Graham
Born: 16-Mar-1967
Birthplace: Honolulu, HI
Gender: Female
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Belly Buttons are Cool Graham taught herself to read as an infant, which allowed her to skip kindergarten. Like her Lorelai Gilmore in Gilmore Girls, Graham had a distant relationship with her mother, who left home to pursue a career as a singer just as her daughter was entering school. Also like her character, Graham tends toward loopiness when she is nervous.
Lauren Graham plays the hip unwed mother of Alexis Bledel on Gilmore Girls. Prior to that show, Graham had featured roles in four different sitcoms, all of which were quite quickly cancelled -- Good Company, Townies, Conrad Bloom, and MYOB. She also had recurring roles as an annoyingly perky girl on Caroline in the City, and as an efficiency expert on NewsRadio.
In her several movies, she has usually been relegated to background roles. She played the school principal to Vin Diesel's The Pacifier, was dumped cruelly by Josh Brolin in Nightwatch, and she wisely dumped Keanu Reeves in Sweet November. She had a rare big-screen leading role opposite Billy Bob Thornton in Bad Santa, as an alcoholic bartender with a Saint Nick fetish.
Father: Lawrence Graham (former president, Chocolate Manufacturers Assn.)
Mother: Donna Graham (fashion executive, div. Lawrence Graham in 1971)
Mother: Karen Graham (stepmother, business consultant, m. Lawrence Graham in 1981)
Boyfriend: Matthew Perry (actor, dated in 2003)
Boyfriend: Marc Blucas (actor, b. 1972, dated 2005)
High School: Langley High School, McLean, VA (1984)
University: BA English, Barnard College (1988)
University: MA Acting, Southern Methodist University (1992)
Friends of Hillary
Irish Ancestry
Risk Factors: Smoking
TELEVISION
Conrad Bloom Molly Davenport (1998)
Gilmore Girls Lorelai Victoria Gilmore (2000-)
Celebrity Poker Showdown Contestant
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Evan Almighty (21-Jun-2007)
Because I Said So (2-Feb-2007)
The Pacifier (1-Mar-2005)
The Amateurs (6-Feb-2005)
Lucky 13 (2005)
Seeing Other People (7-May-2004)
Bad Santa (26-Nov-2003)
Chasing Destiny (14-Feb-2001)
Sweet November (12-Feb-2001)
Dill Scallion (25-Jan-1999)
One True Thing (18-Sep-1998)
Confessions of a Sexist Pig (7-Mar-1998)
Nightwatch (Feb-1997)
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