Lorelai Gilmore

: For Lorelai Leigh "Rory" Gilmore, see Rory Gilmore.

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Lorelai Victoria Gilmore (born April 1968) is a fictional character on the television series Gilmore Girls, played by Lauren Graham. She was named after her father's mother, Lorelai "Trix" Gilmore (Marion Ross) and is is Rory's mother.

Related Topics:
April - 1968 - Fictional character - Television series - Gilmore Girls - Lauren Graham - Marion Ross - Rory

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Raised in Hartford, Connecticut Lorelai is a child of the eighties and part of the MTV generation.

Related Topics:
Hartford, Connecticut - MTV

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: Lorelai: It's my baby box. It's full of all these little things, mementos and stuff from the night Rory was born. I haven't taken it out in ages.

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: Sookie: Mine's not getting a box because mine's not coming out.

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: Lorelai: Mm. My Walkman with the homemade compilation tape still in it. "99 Luftballoons," some R.E.M., some Thompson Twins.

Related Topics:
Walkman - 99 Luftballoons - R.E.M. - Thompson Twins

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: Sookie: I never cared for them.

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: Lorelai: The magazine I was reading that night, with a special feature on who's hotter - Andrew McCarthy or Emilio Estevez.

Related Topics:
Andrew McCarthy - Emilio Estevez

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: —Season 4, Ep. 7 "The Festival of Living Art"

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Her wealthy socialite parents, Richard and Emily, raised her to be a proper young lady of good breeding. They sent her to the best schools and arranged for her to come out to society after her sixteenth birthday, but Lorelai was always rebellious and resentful of her structured and sheltered upbringing.

Related Topics:
Richard - Emily

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Lorelai dated Christopher Hayden (David Sutcliffe), son of Straub (Peter Michael Goetz) and Francine (Cristine Rose) while in high school, and became pregnant right before her society debut, which embarrassed and disappointed her parents. (Lorelai: I humiliated them. The two proudest people in the world and I humiliated them. I spoiled their plans. I took their fine upbringing in a world of comfort and opportunity and I threw it in their faces. I broke their hearts and they'll never forgive me. I guess I can't expect them to. —Season 2, Ep. 21 "Lorelai's Graduation Day") Christopher's and Lorelai's parents tried to convince them to marry, and Christopher was amenable, but Lorelai refused. When she realized she was in labor, she took a taxi to the hospital alone. (Emily: You do not leave your house when you are having a baby without telling your mother. You say, "Excuse me, Mom. I?m having a baby, give me a ride to the damn hospital!" —Season 3, Ep. 13 "Dear Emily and Richard") (Lorelai is played in flahbacks by Chelsea Brummet).

Related Topics:
David Sutcliffe - Debut

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After her daughter was born, named Lorelai Leigh Gilmore, nicknamed Rory ("I'm Lorelai Gilmore. This is my daughter, Lorelai Gilmore... 'cause I named her after me. I was in the hospital all whacked out on Demerol. Never mind. Um, but we call her Rory. It's short for Lorelai, but she'll answer to either one, or even "Hey, you" depending on the... is the Headmaster here? —Season1, Ep. 2 "The Lorelai's First Day at Chilton"), she lived in her parents for a year before running away to find a job at the Independence Inn in Stars Hollow. The owner of the inn, Mia (Elizabeth Franz), took her in, gave her a job as a maid, and let her and Rory live in the potting shed. (Rory: I know it's looks small, but it's really pretty. Come on. See we had our bed right over there, and mom put up this really pretty curtain around the tub so that it looked like a real bathroom. And we would just sit outside at night when the inn would have parties and we'd just listen to music and feed the ducks and..." — Season 1, Ep. 19 "Emily in Wonderland") Lorelai worked her way up over the years, and was eventually promoted to manager. The inn is where she met her best friend, Sookie St. James, a talented chef.

Related Topics:
Lorelai Leigh Gilmore - Demerol - Stars Hollow - Wonderland - Sookie St. James

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For many years, Lorelai had almost no contact with her parents, except for visits during major holidays and when she needed to ask them for money. It wasn't until she needed to borrow a very large sum of money for Rory's education at the exclusive Chilton Academy that she started seeing her parents regularly again, since a condition of the loan was that Lorelai and Rory join Richard and Emily for dinner every Friday night until the loan was paid off.

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Lorelai repaid her parents for the loan when a real estate investment that Richard had made in her name at the time of her birth paid off, but Rory soon made her own bargain with her grandparents for Yale tuition. Lorelai continued to attend occasional Friday night dinners, partly as a way to see Rory while she was busy at college.

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Besides an on-again, off-again relationship with Rory's father, Lorelai's romantic relationships have included Alex Lesman (Billy Burke), am outdoorsy coffee house entrepreneur, Max Medina (Scott Cohen), Rory's English teacher at Chilton, Jason "Digger" Stiles, and Luke Danes, the owner of the local diner and Lorelai's long time friend and supporter. Lorelai remained friends with Christopher and helped him to cope with the birth of his daughter Georgia, nicknamed Gigi, after his girlfriend Sherry Tinsdale (Madchen Amick) deserted them. However, Lorelai broke off contact with him after he attempted to break up her relationship with Luke in Season 5, Ep. 13 "Wedding Bell Blues". She proposed to Luke at the extreme end of Season 5, Ep. 22 "A House is Not a Home", and he accepted at the very beginning of the next episode. They plan to live in Lorelai's two-story home in Stars Hollow.

Related Topics:
Jason "Digger" Stiles - Luke Danes

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Lorelai attended Hartford Community College and earned an Associate of Arts degree in business while running the Independence Inn. After the inn burned down, she and Sookie owned and operated the Independence catering company in order to fund construction on the Dragonfly Inn, their long-term dream, which opened to rave reviews on May 6 during Season 4.

Related Topics:
Community College - Associate of Arts degree - Catering

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: Michel: But you wrote down on a gum wrapper.

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: Lorelai: So?

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: Michel: It's embarrassing. This is an historical document.

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: Sookie: Who cares what she wrote it down on?

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: Michel: Big Red wrapper.

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: Sookie: Juicyfruit would have been better?

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: Michel: Well, I'm going to go out and get a value pack for when things really start getting busy around here.

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: —Season 4, Ep. 14 "The Incredible Shrinking Lorelais"

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Lorelai's eating habits are famously unhealthy; she subsists almost exclusively on Pop Tarts and takeout. She and Rory had regular food-and-movie nights, for which they would order enough food for several people and then use the leftovers as food for the rest of the week. A running joke on the series is that food rarely, if ever, makes it all the way to Lorelai's refrigerator.

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Lorelai is innately humorous and has a witty remark for every situation, often with a pop culture reference. Often times, however, her remarks do come at the expense of others, and can confuse people who aren't familiar with her.

Related Topics:
Humor - Pop culture

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: Emily: Relax Dean, that's just Lorelai's little sense of humor. (To Lorelai) You're very cruel.

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: Lorelai: Well, yes, keeps me young.

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: —Season 2, Ep. 1 "Sadie, Sadie"

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