Though some may have seen talented ingenue Alexis Bledel in modeling assignments that featured her brown-haired, blue-eyed angelic beauty, or even less likely, caught her performances in Houston community theater productions, for the great majority of the audience, she first appeared as Rory Gilmore, the younger of The WB's "Gilmore Girls"(2000-) Though the actress began her craft as a way to combat shyness beginning at age eight, the Texas native landed a modeling contract that led to work throughout her teens, thanks in no small part to her untarnished, pink-cheeked all-American good looks. She even accepted assignments in such cosmopolitan overseas locales as Milan and Tokyo as well as New York and Los Angeles. After completing high school and her freshman year as a film major at New York University, Bledel was cast as sixteen-year-old Rory on "Gilmore Girls", more than capably handling the assignment of playing the daughter of a somewhat flaky but hardworking single mother (Lauren Graham)....
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