“I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I'm not even sure is important to me.”

American actress and author

Lauren Graham is an American actress and author, best known for playing Lorelai Gilmore on Gilmore Girls and Sarah Braverman on Parenthood. She was born in 1967. She earned a Golden Globe nomination for Gilmore Girls and later returned to the role in the Netflix revival A Year in the Life. Graham has also appeared in films including Sweet November, Bad Santa, The Pacifier, Because I Said So, Evan Almighty, and Max. As a writer, she published the novel Someday, Someday, Maybe in 2013 and the memoir Talking as Fast as I Can in 2016.