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Alexis Bledel
b. 1981
American actress and model (born 1981)
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Biography
Kimberly Alexis Bledel is an American actress and model. She is best known for her roles as Rory Gilmore on the television series Gilmore Girls and Emily Malek in The Handmaid's Tale. Bledel also had a recurring role in Mad Men and reprised her role as Rory Gilmore in the 2016 Netflix revival Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life.
Timeline
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Cast as Rory Gilmore on Gilmore Girls at 19, her first major audition. The show ran seven seasons and developed one of TV's most devoted fanbases.
Reprised Rory Gilmore in Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life on Netflix, nine years after the original series ended. The revival's final four words became the most discussed TV cliffhanger of the year.
Won the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama for The Handmaid's Tale. She'd taken the role of Emily partly because it was the opposite of everything Rory Gilmore represented.
In Their Own Words (2)
I think it caught on because the stories that these four girls have individually in the book are extremely relatable. They’re very real teenage experiences. I think the friendship between the four girls is something that is more realistic than a lot of the relationships we see between girls in movies lately. A lot of the time it’s like backstabbing or petty or superficial. I think most girls’ relationships are real friendships like these. I don’t think they’re that much more dramatic.
About the book Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
When you put the corset on it gives you a glimpse into what those women's lives must have been like, a little bit. Just the fact that they did that to themselves to look a certain way gives you an idea of how important it was to be a proper young lady in those times, to kind of fit the mold of what they were trying to accomplish socially. The director, Jay Russell told me to use the corset as a device to remind myself that not only physically, but emotionally, she was trapped in her surroundings and wanted desperately to get out. It was definitely a reminder because the thing is so tight!
About the film Tuck Everlasting
Artifacts (3)
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the" and the new single "I Am Light" which was originally included on her 2013 Songversation album. She expressed that the EP was "made to be listened to in a quiet time, prayer, meditation, Yoga. My...
do projects with people who are making music that is meaningful, with a lot of i...
ated with such artists as Sezen Aksu, Keb Mo, Gramps Morgan and Musiq Soulchild to fulfill her self-proclaimed desire to "do projects with people who are making music that is meaningful, with a lot of...
When I started tapping into my own sensitivity, I started to understand people b...
Savannah College of Art and Design, led to a personal revelation about songwriting and performing. "When I started tapping into my own sensitivity, I started to understand people better. It was a...
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