Lorelai Gilmore

Lorelai Victoria Gilmore is a fictional character in The WB series Gilmore Girls. Created by Amy Sherman-Palladino and portrayed by actress Lauren Graham, she appeared in every episode of the show from 2000 to 2007. Lorelai is introduced as a young single mother of a teenage daughter, Rory. Lorelai has a strained relationship with her wealthy parents, Richard and Emily, after running away as a teen to raise her daughter alone. Lorelai remains estranged from her parents for many years until the events of the pilot episode, where she asks her parents for help paying Rory's tuition. Her parents agree, on the condition that she visits them for dinner every Friday. Besides an on-again, off-again relationship with Rory's father, Christopher Hayden, Lorelai has romantic relationships that include Max Medina, a teacher at Rory's high school, Chilton, to whom she was briefly engaged; Alex Lesman, an outdoorsy coffee house entrepreneur; Jason Stiles, a childhood acquaintance; and Luke Danes, the owner of Luke's Diner in her adopted hometown of Stars Hollow, Connecticut. As Lorelai frequents Luke's Diner, they became close friends and eventually fall in love. In the Netflix revival miniseries A Year in the Life, Luke and Lorelai marry. Graham received widespread critical acclaim for portraying her character and was nominated for several awards. She won two Teen Choice Awards for Choice TV Parental Unit in 2005 and 2006. Lorelai has frequently been mentioned as one of the greatest and most iconic television characters ever created.