Alexis Bledel

Name: Alexis Bledel
Birth Date: September 16, 1981
Birth Place: Houston, Texas, USA
Profession: Actress, Model
Education: Page Parkes Center of Modeling and Acting; Houston, Texas; New York University's Tisch School of Arts, New York (studied film); Saint Agnes Academy in Houston, Texas
Relationship: Milo Ventimiglia (actor; born July 8, 1977; dated since 2002)
Father: Martin Bledel (Argentinian)
Mother: Nanette Dozier (Mexican)
Brother: Eric David Bledel (born in 1986)
Claim to fame: As Lorelai 'Rory' Leigh Gilmore on TV Series Gilmore Girls

ALEXIS BLEDEL GOSSIP

• Has founded a new amateur all-girl soccer team in Los Angeles in an effort to stay in shape. (May 29, 2007)

• Gilmore Girls is Alexis' first professional acting job, and she doesn't have any prior experience.

• Was spotted in a mall by a modeling agency. She worked as a catalog model and traveled all over the world including Milan, New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo.

• Her first language is Spanish. Her mom's from Mexico and her dad was born in Argentina.

• That '70s Show is one of her fave shows.

• Loves to play the piano. In between scenes on the Gilmore Girls, she heads to her trailer and practices on a keyboard.

• Also enjoys photography, writing, reading, watching movies and hanging with her family.

• Didn't grow up speaking English, she learned it in school.

• One of Teen People Magazine's 25 Hottest Stars under 25 (2002)

• Her parents encouraged her to enroll in community theater when she was eight years old to combat her shyness.

• Started modeling at 14.

• 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!

• Named #87 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2005 list.

• She is friends with Amber Tamblyn and America Ferrera her co-star from the movie, THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS (2005).

• Has a brief role in the movie RUSHMORE (1998). In the scene where Max speaks in front of his class at Grover Cleveland, she can be seen sitting in the front row.

Alexis Bledel Filmography :

• The Letters (2009)

• The Post-Grad Survival Guide (2009)

• The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008)

• Gilmore Girls (2000–2007)

• Life Is Short (2006)

• I'm Reed Fish (2006)

• The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005)

• Sin City (2005)

• Bride & Prejudice (2004)

• DysEnchanted (2004)

• Tuck Everlasting (2002)

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