Lauren Graham was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Donna Grant and Lawrence Graham, a candy industry lobbyist. Her father was from New York and her mother was from the American South, and Lauren has Irish, British, and Scottish ancestry. She grew up in Northern Virginia, USA Graduate of Langley High School, McLean, VA Graduate of Barnard College with a Bachelor's Degree in English. Graduate of Southern Methodist University with a Master's Degree in Acting. She was raised by a single parent, her father. Her parents divorced when she was 5. Growing up she wanted to be a jockey but her height precluded it. She traveled extensively with her father during her childhood and discovered acting while in elementary school. Her resume includes theatre, film and television.
Graduate of Barnard College in 1988.
Laurens father, Larry, is the President of the National Confectioners Association and was a founder of The Harkin Engel Protocol, an industry-wide agreement to ensure that cocoa is farmed responsibly, without the worst forms of child labor and forced adult labor. His groundbreaking work has spawned other efforts. Her mother, Donna, left her family when Lauren was 5 to pursue a singing career. She ended up in the fashion industry.
Her father has Irish ancestry and her mother has English and Scottish ancestry. She has a half-sister, Maggie, and a half-brother, Chris. First paying job was in high school, in a video about Planned Parenthood.
On "The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn" (Feb 1, 2003), when they were discussing the quote then on her page on IMDb site, she said that she preferred "Belly buttons are cool".
2003 - Started her own production company, Good Game.
Received an MFA in Acting from Southern Methodist University.
Prior to "Gilmore Girls" , she and once guest star Scott Cohen both appeared on a three part episode of "Law & Order" (though never appearing in the same scene).
She loves horses and horseback riding. Wanted to be a jockey, but she was too tall.
She and "Gilmore Girls" co-star Scott Patterson both made appearances on the TV series "Seinfeld" as a prospective girlfriend for Jerry and boyfriend for Elaine, respectively (but not in the same episode).
She has a dog named Hanna.
Her stepmother is Karen Graham.
She cant leave home without a book to read in case things get boring.
Former roommate of Connie Britton.
2011: Is in a relationship with Peter Krause , her co-star on "Parenthood" . First met on the set of "Caroline in the City" .
Perspective is the most important thing to have in life.
Belly buttons are cool.
Anyone can smile on their best day. I like to meet a man who can smile on his WORST.
Today, I would pick the person who made me feel warm, rather than the one who left me cold.
What with your phone and the Xbox and the taxi TV and that music player you wear on your arm and the headphones that look like donuts on your ears, doesn’t it make life so much smaller? If absolutely everything important is only happening on such a small screen, isn’t that a shame? Especially when the world is so overwhelmingly large and surprising? Are you missing too much? You can’t imagine it now, but you’ll look like me one day, even though you’ll feel just the same as you do now. You’ll catch a glimpse of yourself in the mirror and think how quickly it’s all gone, and I wonder if all the time you used watching those families whose lives are filmed for the television, and making those cartoons of yourselves with panting dog tongues, and chasing after that terrible Pokémon fellow…well, will it feel like time well spent?,Because who wants to Fast Forward anyway? You might miss some of the good parts.
I guess what I’m saying is, let’s keep lifting each other up. It’s not lost on me that two of the biggest opportunities I’ve had to break into the next level were given to me by successful women in positions of power. If I’m ever in that position and you ask me, “Who?” I’ll do my best to say, “You” too. But in order to get there, you may have to break down the walls of whatever it is that’s holding you back first. Ignore the doubt—it’s not your friend—and just keep going, keep going, keep going.
In my experience, there’s no secret to accomplishing almost any goal worth pursuing.
Of all the lists I’ve made of goals, and all the visions I’ve had, it never before occurred to me that I could be this specific, that I could aspire to a goal actually measurable in inches. I wonder if this is how successful people do it. I wonder if the difference between success and failure could more accurately be described in the waist sizes for jeans.
Like my dad, I have a Christmas party most years. I like to celebrate and see as many people as possible.
