Lauren Graham
Lauren Helen Graham is an American actress, producer and novelist. She is best known for playing Lorelai Gilmore on the WB drama series Gilmore Girls and as Sarah Braverman on the NBC series Parenthood.
Lauren Graham was born on March 16, 1967 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her mother, Donna Grant, was a fashion buyer, and her father, Lawrence Graham, is a candy industry lobbyist who has been president of the National Confectioners Association. Graham was raised in her fathers Catholic faith she is of Irish, English, Scottish ancestry. When Grahams father worked for the Agency for International Development in Vietnam, Lauren lived for a few years in Japan . Graham was five years old when her parents divorced and she moved to Alexandria, Virginia with her father, who became a congressional staffer, while her mother left to pursue an artistic career, and lived in London until her death at age 61. Graham has a halfsister and a halfbrother from her fathers second marriage and a British halfsister from her mothers second marriage, Shade Grant, who works at a talent agency.
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