Alexis Bledel

Overview

Born
September 16, 1981 · Houston, Texas, USA
Birth name
Kimberly Alexis Bledel
Height
5′ 7″ (1.70 m)

Biography

Family

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Trademarks

Her awkward and shy personality
Low baby voice
Striking blue eyes
Often plays young teenagers (as an adult)

Trivia

Her audition for Gilmore Girls (2000) was her first ever.
Her first language was Spanish.
Didn't grow up speaking English; she learned it in school.
She hates coffee and, while her character "Rory" on Gilmore Girls (2000) consumes it daily, she drinks coca-cola out of the supposed coffee mugs.
Moved to L.A. when she joined the Gilmore Girls (2000) cast. Alexis is an actual "Gilmore" - her paternal great-great-grandmother was born Rebecca Richardson Gilmore.

Quotes

[on getting recognized by fans] "It always happens in places where you'd rather not be recognized. Like one time, I was just getting ready to go to bed, but I had this craving for a glass of milk. So I go to the supermarket, and I have like no makeup on, and this couple comes up to me and they're like 'Thursday night!'. They sort of yelled it across the vegetable bin, and I'm like, 'Okay, don't look at me, I look awful. I'm going over here by the celery now.'"
[About her Gilmore Girls (2000) audition] "It was very unexpected. I was nervous and didn't know what I was doing. It just happened to work out".
You hear all these great stories about kids starting their own businesses and getting involved in their communities and politics and foundations - all kinds of things. And it's so much easier for kids to get motivated and do that. - on her belief that teens are motivated to affect change.
Last year, I was driving to work at 5.30 in the morning, and I ended up right next to a bus that had a huge picture of me on the side of it. They were all over L.A. but it was the first time I'd seen one. I don't know if it was because it was so early or what, but that freaked me out.
[on talking about her relationship with Milo Ventimiglia]: "It's your stuff, and if you share things that are too personal with a magazine or with your public, it's sort of like it's not really yours anymore, it's shared information and it's not special to you anymore. I don't like that. I think people with personalities who like to talk about what's going on in their lives, they'll talk without really knowing how it's going to come back and bite them, and generally, it does. And luckily, I have the kind of personality where I am extremely private. I don't really like to tell everyone my business. I'd much rather people wonder or not know".