Alexis Bledel

She dated Milo Ventimiglia, her ‘Gilmore Girls’ co-star from 2002 to 2006. However, the two split up.

In 2012, she asked her fans to support the re-election of President Barack Obama.

She secretely married her ‘Mad Men’ co-star, Vincent Kartheiser in June 2014.

Kimberly Alexis Bledel was born to Nanette and Martin Bledel in Houston, Texas. She has a younger brother, Eric. Her family is not of American origin and is primarily from Argentina. Alexis is of Scottish-English-Dutch-Latin American ancestry.

She grew up in a Spanish household and learnt English only when she was in school. To date, Bledel considers herself a Latina.

She studied at St. Agnes Academy in Houston and other Baptist and Lutheran schools. As a child, she was a very shy girl and in order to overcome that nervousness, her mother asked her to take up theater classes.

She soon began appearing in a number of school and local productions including ‘Our Town’ and ‘The Wizard of Oz’.

She was spotted at a local mall and was offered to work as a fashion model. She soon rose to fame and went to Page Parkes Center for Modeling and Acting and also studied at Tisch School of the Arts at the New York University for a year.

She made her television debut as ‘Rory Gilmore’, the lead protagonist, in the hit American series, ‘Gilmore Girls’, in 2000. Two years later, she was cast as Winnie Jackson Foster in the film, ‘Tuck Everlasting’.

In 2004, she starred in ‘DysEnchanted’, a short film and ‘Bride and Prejudice’. She earned critical acclaim for her role as ‘Becky’, the prostitute, for ‘Sin City’ the next year and as ‘Lena Kaligaris’ for ‘The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants’.

She co-starred with Jay Baruchel in ‘I’m Reed Fish’, which released in theatres on June 1, 2007. This was also the last year, she starred as ‘Rory Gilmore’ in the popular series, ‘Gilmore Girls’, ending her seven year spell with the show.

In 2008, she reprised her role of ‘Lena Kaligaris’ in the sequel of ‘The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants’ titled, ‘The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants 2’. She acted in three movies the following year titled, ‘The Good Guy’, ‘Post Grad’ and ‘The Ballad of G.I. Joe’.

In 2009, apart from filming, she signed a contract with the modeling department of IMG. She also appeared as ‘Dr. Julia Wise’ in an episode of the television series, ‘ER’.

She played the role of the lead protagonist, ‘Rory Gilmore’ for the comedy-drama television series, ‘Gilmore Girls’. This WB show earned widespread critical acclaim and ran for a successful seven years from 2000 to 2007. After 153 episodes and 7 successful seasons, the show earned a number of critical awards especially the Emmy Award and was placed in the ‘Entertainment Weekly’s’ list of ‘New TV Classics’ at no. 32. The show is also featured on Time’s list of ‘All-TIME 100 TV Shows’.