Lauren Helen Graham was born on 16th March 1967, in Honolulu, Hawaii USA, of British and Irish descent. She is an actress and a producer, best known for her roles in “Gilmore Girls” and “Parenthood”. The actress is also a novelist, her first book “Someday, Someday, Maybe: A Novel” being published in 2013.
So just how rich is Lauren Graham? Her net worth has been estimated by sources at $15 million, most of it having been made in the film and television industry during a career spanning more than 20 years. Her successful leading role in the television series “Parenthood”, for which she received $175,000 per episode in the last season, meant that in 2014 she made more than $2 million alone from this show.
Lauren Graham Net Worth $15 Million
Besides television industry, the actress makes money from endorsement and publicity. Lauren’s voice can be heard in commercials for Kellogg’s Special K products and for the American Express Plum Card. She also appeared in a commercial for Aquafina. Lauren Graham owns a house in Los Angeles and an apartment in New York.
Lauren Graham graduated in 1984 from Langley High School. She has a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Barnard College and a Master of Fine Arts from Southern Methodist University. She started her acting career with appearances in commercials and small roles in television series. She started earning significant money as an actress back in the ’90s, from appearances in television series like “Townies”, “3rd Rock from the Sun”, “Good Company”, and “Caroline in the City”. She became known after being cast in “Gilmore Girls”, a television series where Lauren played the role of Lorelei Gilmore. After seven seasons, the series was cancelled and media have speculated that the main reason for this decision was the cast’s too high salaries.
In 2000, she started playing Lorelei Gilmore in the television series “Gilmore Girls”, for which she was nominated at the Golden Globe Awards in 2001. Between 2009 and 2014, Lauren was a leading actress in “Parenthood”, where she was the single mother Sarah Braverman.
Lauren Graham is also a producer; the executive producer for the short movie “Something More”, in 2003, and she was a producer for 11 episodes in the last season from “Gilmore Girls”, in 2007. She is also a co-executive producer for the television movie “Kate on Later”, made in 2015 for NBC together with Ellen DeGeneres.
Lauren Graham adds money to her net worth by acting on Broadway. She made her debut in 2009, as Adelaide in “Guys and Dolls”, a role she played 113 times in five months.
In 2013, the actress had her first book published. The novel, called “Someday, Someday, Maybe”, became a bestseller and it will be adapted in order to become a television series aired by CW and produced by Ellen DeGeneres‘ A Very Good Production and Warner Bros TV.
The actress won three Choice TV Parental Units from Teen Choice Awards, in 2005 and 2006 for her role in “Gilmore Girls” and in 2010 for her performance in “Parenthood”.
In her personal life, Lauren Graham had a relationship with actor Matthew Perry and, from 2010 she has been in a relationship with Peter Krause, the actor who plays her brother in “Parenthood”.
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