Amy Sherman-Palladino Biography

Fast Facts

• Her surname Sherman is actually her father's stage name as a comedian
• Trained as a dancer from age 4; received a callback for a touring company of the musical Cats, but decided to join the writing staff of Roseanne instead
• Based the setting of Gilmore Girls on a small Connecticut town where she had vacationed—the inn had a pumpkin patch and patrons at the local diner went behind the counter for coffee
• Has never watched the final season of Gilmore Girls; she and her husband Dan left the show over an impasse with the CW network following Season 6