What The Cast Of Gilmore Girls Looks Like Today

It's been way too many years since Gilmore Girls made us all want to talk very fast and drink lots of coffee, and since then, the original cast has gone on to do some pretty amazing things. While we got to re-visit Stars Hollow for the miniseries Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, it's hard to keep track of where the town's many residents have ended up. Here's what the cast of Gilmore Girls is up to now. 

Alexis Bledel probably defined your childhood and young-adult years through her role as Rory Gilmore, growing up on screen alongside the audience. During her time on the show, she also took on a big role in another prominent young adult property, joining The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants as the quiet Lena. She reprised the part in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 shortly after the series ended.

Bledel remained mostly quiet for a few years after that, appearing in movies like The Good Guy and Post Grad. In 2012, she took on a three-episode guest starring role on Mad Men, which ended up being a fateful part for her, as it is where she met her future husband Vincent Kartheiser. The very-private pair got engaged in 2013 and married the next year; they had their first child, a son, in 2015. (They kept the birth a secret for nearly a year, but her Gilmore Girls co-star Scott Patterson accidentally made the reveal in an interview.)

Bledel has been back in the cultural (and awards season) conversation recently for her role as Ofglen on Hulu's hit series The Handmaid's Tale. The actress has said that, now that she's a mother, she only wants to take on parts that are really meaningful to her, so it looks like she may be more selective for her roles in the upcoming years, but we're still excited to see what she does in the future. 

Keiko Agena played Rory's musically inclined BFF Lane on Gilmore Girls, but, unlike her character, Agena was nowhere near high school aged. The actress was actually 27 years old when she started playing the 15-year-old Lane, meaning that she was already far along in her career when the show started, having appeared on ER, Beverly Hills, 90210, and Felicity.

Agena's personal life, though, followed a similar arc to her character, with the actress getting married in 2005, the same year that Lane got married on the series. Agena is still married to Shin Kawasaki, a composer whom she calls her best friend. (Aww!) Aside from her happy home life, Agena is also active on the improv scene, performing with a number of groups, and has an artist's workbook, titled No Mistakes, set to be released in the summer of 2018.

Agena has also kept on acting, guest starring on shows like Colony, Grim, Shameless, House, and Castle, and appearing in films like Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Unfriended, and The Night Is Young. She also recently appeared in another buzzy teen-centric property, starring as one of the teachers on Netflix's 13 Reasons Why. While it definitely makes us feel old to see Agena all grown up and joining the ranks of the parents, it's good to see her finding such success.  

Jared Padalecki played Rory's first love Dean on Gilmore Girls, and, although the character doesn't get much love from fans of the show, Padalecki has since become a fan favorite on another series, the long-running CW drama Supernatural. Padalecki has starred for more than a dozen seasons as Sam Winchester, one half of the demon-fighting brotherly duo at the center of the series.

Supernatural has kept Padalecki pretty busy over the years, but he still had time to get married and start a family, falling in love with his co-star Genevieve Cortese (aka the show's second Ruby) and getting married in 2010. The two have since had three children, two sons and a daughter, and Padalecki frequently posts pics of the adorable family on his active social media pages.

Padalecki revealed in 2015 that he suffered from depression and anxiety, leading to him starting the Always Keep Fighting campaign, which sells T-shirts and other merchandise to raise money for suicide prevention organizations like the Wounded Warrior Project and To Write Love On Her Arms. Padalecki and his co-stars have been active in promoting the cause, and his fans have responded in kind, even honoring him at San Diego Comic-Con in 2015 by holding up candles during his panel.   

Matt Czuchry played another one of Rory's controversial boyfriends on Gilmore Girls, starring as her later season love interest Logan Huntzberger. After the show, Czuchry quickly moved over to a couple of familiar teen properties, guest starring on Veronica Mars and Friday Night Lights before landing a series regular role on the CBS drama The Good Wife, a role which earned him numerous Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations for best ensemble. In 2008, he also took some time to appear in the play Third at the Geffen Playhouse. 

Czuchry has kept mostly to the small screen, but he did have a very Logan-esque big screen part in 2009, starring in I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, an adaptation of the Tucker Max novel of the same name. The film was a huge bomb, but for Czuchry, everything seems to have worked out fine, as he has already landed another starring TV role, with the actor next set to lead the Fox medical drama The Resident.

Czuchry has kept his personal life private, so it's unclear whether he is in a relationship or not. However, with his budding career, there's still plenty to talk about when it comes to the young actor, who looks like he may be TV's next big leading man.  

Melissa McCarthy played Lorelai's quirky best friend Sookie on Gilmore Girls, and it ended up being another quirky best friend role that gave her mainstream breakout— her part in 2011's Bridesmaids, a role which earned her first and only Oscar nomination to date. Before that, though, McCarthy made a few other stops on television, appearing on Samantha Who? and starring in her own sitcom, Mike and Molly, which earned her an Emmy.

Bridesmaids, though, was the launching pad for McCarthy's hugely successful film career, with the actress since becoming one of the world's highest paid stars. McCarthy's most notable roles include starring opposite Sandra Bullock in The Heat, playing the lead in Spy, a role which earned her a Golden Globe nomination, and being one of the leads in 2016's controversial Ghostbusters reboot. In 2017, buoyed by her super successful career and her pitch-perfect Sean Spicer impression, McCarthy joined the five-timers club of Saturday Night Live hosts.

McCarthy has been married to her Bridesmaids co-star Ben Falcone since 2005, and the pair have two daughters, born in 2007 and 2010. Falcone has also directed some of McCarthy's films, including Tammy, The Boss, and the upcoming Life of the Party, all of which she and Falcone co-wrote. McCarthy's other upcoming roles include lending her voice to Dreamworks' animated comedy B.O.O.: Bureau of Otherworldly Operations and starring in Can You Ever Forgive Me? 

As Rory's father and Lorelai's other main love interest Christopher on Gilmore Girls, David Sutcliffe had the tough job of imbuing charm into a difficult character. He pulled it off, though, and has since used those talents to launch a successful acting career, joining Private Practice in a recurring part shortly after the series wrapped up.

From there, he went on to be a guest star on quite a few huge series, including Accidentally on Purpose, Drop Dead Diva, and Lie To Me, before landing a main role on the Canadian television series Cracked, which ran for two seasons. He has since had recurring roles on Proof and Mistresses, and even played a fictional version of himself for an episode of Degrassi: Next Class in which one of the characters became convinced that he was actually her real-life father.

Sutcliffe also occupies himself by running Core Energetics and Radical Aliveness workshops, which he says focus on channeling individuality to try and bring more self-awareness. The actor says that his ultimate goal is to help people "discover and connect to their deepest gifts." You can find out more about his workshops and when and where the next one will be held on his website.

As Gilmore family patriarch Richard on Gilmore Girls, Edward Hermann was arguably the heart of the series, which is why it was so much more heart-breaking when he passed away on New Year's Eve in 2014. The actor, who was 71 years old at the time of his death, succumbed to brain cancer. 

Before his death, Hermann appeared on episodes of The Good Wife, How I Met Your Mother, Perception, and American Dad. Although he passed before the Gilmore Girls revival was announced, his absence was sorely felt, with the cast honoring him both on screen and off.