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Alexis Bledel Profile

Name: Alexis Bledel

Birth Name: Kimberly Alexis Bledel

Height: 5' 7''

Sex: F

Nationality: American

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 Biography

Kimberly Alexis Bledel (born September 16, 1981) is an American, Argentinian, and Mexican actress and former fashion model. She is known for her role in the television series Gilmore Girls and for the films Tuck Everlasting, Sin City, and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. She goes by her first name, "Kimberly", with family and friends, but is known professionally as Alexis Bledel.

Alexis Bledel was born in Houston, Texas. Her father, Martín Bledel, is Argentinian and her mother,Nanette ,is Mexican. She has one younger brother, Eric, born 1986. Her first language is Spanish, and she did not learn English until she began school. In fact, America Ferrera was surprised during an interview with a Spanish magazine when Bledel started speaking Spanish. Bledel's mother encouraged her to try community theater when she was a child to overcome her shyness. She subsequently appeared in local productions of Our Town and The Wizard of Oz before being scouted at a local mall and given work as a fashion model. She attended St. Agnes Academy in Houston and is a Roman Catholic.

Alexis Bledel went to Page Parkes Center for Modeling and Acting and majored in film at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts for one year before landing the role of Rory in Gilmore Girls. In 2002, she was voted one of Teen People's "25 Hottest Stars Under 25".

Bledel made her debut on TV on The WB series Gilmore Girls in 2000. She played Lorelai Leigh "Rory" Gilmore, the daughter of single mother Lorelai Victoria Gilmore. Initially, Rory was a high school student living with her mother, but she has since moved on to college at Yale University, where she, among other things, has worked as the editor of the Yale Daily News. There she meets Logan Huntzburger, Matt Czuchry, whom her character dates in the show. Bledel has said that she feels she can relate in some ways to Rory, both when it comes to some personal traits and her relationship to her own parents. She also sees the family structure and mother-daughter relationship on the show as something to which many people can relate.