
Biography
Lauren Helen Graham (born March 16, 1967) is an American actress and author. She is best known for portraying Lorelai Gilmore on The WB series Gilmore Girls, for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama, and for playing Sarah Braverman on the NBC drama series Parenthood (2010–2015). She also appeared in the films Sweet November (2001), Bad Santa (2003), The Pacifier (2005), Because I Said So (2007), Evan Almighty (2007), and Max (2015). In 2013, Graham published her debut novel with Ballantine Books, Someday, Someday, Maybe. In 2016, Graham reprised her role on a Gilmore Girls Netflix revival miniseries, A Year in the Life and published a memoir, Talking as Fast as I Can. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lauren Graham, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Awards & recognition
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame · 2025
Filmography50+ titles

Seinfeld

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Gilmore Girls

Reminders of Him

Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist

Parenthood

3rd Rock from the Sun

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

Family Guy

Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life

NewsRadio

Law & Order

Twinless

Max

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life

It's Kind of a Funny Story

Sweet November

Web Therapy

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Until the End of the World

Vampirina

Flash of Genius

Bad Santa

Go On

One True Thing

The Kelly Clarkson Show

The Answer Man

Project Runway

The Pacifier

Nightwatch

Because I Said So

Seeing Other People

The Odd Couple

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Joshy

Evan Almighty

The Amateurs

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

A Merry Friggin' Christmas

Birds of America

It Takes a Lunatic

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The Third Wheel

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Lucky 13

The View

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

Confessions of a Sexist Pig