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If you're a fan of the teen comedy-drama, "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants," or TV dramas such as "Mad Men" and "The Handmaid's Tale," then you'll know the name Alexis Bledel.

But to TV lovers around the world, Bledel is best known by another name: Rory Gilmore. She played the studious coffee-lover in "Gilmore Girls" from 2000 to 2007.

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However, fans may not know that "Gilmore Girls" was her first ever acting role. Being a fresh-faced college grad made her stand out to the show's casting director, Jill Anthony. "Luckily, we had videotaped one of her early auditions.

We popped that in, and they saw her on camera and she just jumped off the screen, you know. Those blue eyes," Anthony told Vanity Fair.

The early years of her career were defined by "Gilmore Girls," but as she has progressed, Bledel has turned her hand to a variety of projects, from dark dramas to TV