| Emily Gilmore
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Emily Gilmore, Lorelai's mother, is one of the leading women in Hartford's charity circles and is
involved in many different projects. She finds etiquette and protocol very important and wants
things to be done on her terms. This has made her fire well over a hundred different maids. The
one person who she was never able to control was her daughter, Lorelai and this has created a
certain distance between the two. However, Emily really wants a closer relationship, much like
the one that Lorelai has to her daughter, Rory.
Kelly Bishop
Veteran actress Kelly Bishop has portrayed many memorable roles in film, television and the
theater since her breakout performance as one of the original cast members of the hit Broadway
musical A Chorus Line.
The Colorado Springs native grew up in Denver, Colo., where she trained to be a ballet dancer.
At 18, she headed to New York and landed her first job dancing in a year-round ballet company at
Radio City Music Hall. Bishop danced in Las Vegas, summer stock and on television until she was
cast in 1967 in Golden Rainbow, her first Broadway role.
Her big break came when she was cast as the sexy, hard-edged Sheila in A Chorus Line. She won
Tony and Drama Desk Awards for her performance, giving her the confidence she needed to
eventually leave the acclaimed original ensemble to pursue a dramatic acting career. It wasn't
long before she was cast opposite Jill Clayburgh in Paul Mazursky's big-screen drama An Unmarried
Woman. She went on to play "mom" to several high-profile stars in numerous features such as
Jennifer Grey's mother in the box-office hit Dirty Dancing. On television, Bishop starred in the
Mike Nichols' series The Thorns and played Lisa Ann Walter's mother on My Wildest Dreams.
Bishop's extensive theater credits include the lead in the Broadway production of Six Degrees of
Separation, as well as Broadway productions of Neil Simon's Proposals, the Tony Award-winning
The Last Night of Ballyhoo and Bus Stop. She also has starred in numerous regional theater and
off-Broadway productions.
When she's not working, Bishop practices pilates and aerobics, and enjoys gardening and hiking
near her home in New Jersey, where she lives with her husband, TV talk show host Lee Leonard.
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