Alexis Bledel Biography

Fast Facts

• Her first language is Spanish; she didn't learn English until she started school
• Her mother is Mexican; her father, Argentinian
• Took acting classes when she was 8 as a way to overcome her shyness
• Began modeling at age 14, traveling to Milan and Tokyo for shows
• Her profile rose with her role as Rory Gilmore in the Gilmore Girls series (2000-07) and her movie portrayal of Lena in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005) and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008)
• In an Entertainment Weekly article about the end of Gilmore Girls, she admitted the show's famous fast-paced dialogue often had her "exhausted" and that "It burns you out
• " Appeared in the 2009 series finale of ER
• Made a return to modeling by signing with IMG in 2009