Lauren Graham

Lauren Helen Graham (born March 16, 1967) is an American actress and author. She is best recognized for her role as Lorelai Gilmore on the television series Gilmore Girls (2000–07), for which she received two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, one Golden Globe nomination, and five Satellite Award nominations. She is also known for film roles in Sweet November (2001), Bad Santa (2003), The Pacifier (2005), Because I Said So (2007), and Evan Almighty (2007). From 2010 to 2015, Graham starred as Sarah Braverman on the NBC television drama Parenthood. Graham published her debut novel in 2013, Someday, Someday, Maybe, with Ballantine Books. She reprised her role as Lorelai Gilmore on Netflix's reunion miniseries in 2016, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, and published a memoir, Talking as Fast as I Can: from Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between). 2Early lifeEdit Lauren Graham was born on March 16, 1967 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her mother, Donna Grant, was a fashion buyer, and her father, Lawrence Graham, is a candy industry lobbyist who has been president of the National Confectioners Association. Graham was raised in her father's Catholic faith (her maternal grandfather was a Baptist minister); she is of Irish, English, and Scottish ancestry. When Graham's father worked for the Agency for International Development in Vietnam, Lauren lived for a few years in Japan (her mother also grew up there, as the daughter of a missionary