Alexis Bledel made a very rare public appearance at the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival.
The former Gilmore Girls The 44-year-old star walked the red carpet at the film industry’s prestigious gathering at New York’s Village East Cinema on Saturday, June 6, to promote her new film Ponderosa.
Bledel looked elegant as always in a gold top with a cut-out collar and bow over a knee-length black skirt and matching pumps.
The veteran TV star made this rare appearance to celebrate Ponderosais the world premiere of the screenwriter and director Rob Rice and co-star Jack Dylan Grazer (Luca).
Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel’s upcoming joint appearance at the 2025 Emmy Awards will be their first reunion in eight years. Graham, 58, and Bledel, 43, appeared together on Deadline’s “The Contenders” panel in April 2017, where they discussed their roles as co-stars on The WB’s “Gilmore Girls” and Netflix’s “Gilmore Girls”: (…)
The horror-comedy revolves around a young man (Grazer) who fends off the advances of a strange older man who insists on becoming his stepfather after his mother loses her job at a local buffet. The Queen’s Gambit Actor Bill Camp also appears in Ponderosa.
Ponderosa is Bledel’s first film role since the 2019 crime thriller Cryptoalthough she appeared sporadically on the small screen as Emily in The Handmaid’s Tale until 2025.
Her last major public appearance before attending the Tribeca Film Festival was at the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards in September 2025, where she reunited with her on stage Gilmore Girls Costar Lauren Graham to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the classic show on a replica of the Stars Hollow set.
“A show called 25 years ago Gilmore Girls premiered and apparently took the fall season hostage,” Graham, 59, joked during the post.
Alexis Bledel and Lauren Graham on stage during the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards.
Kevin Winter/Getty ImagesThe duo thought about having a meager budget to begin with Gilmore Girlswhich required the cast to get creative with catering.
“If there was a birthday The Drew Carey Show “Next door, they sent us their leftover sheet cake,” Graham said.
“We looked hungry…Basically we were bullied and starving,” Bledel chimed in.
The Gilmore Girls The graduates mimicked the show’s fast-paced dialogue by insisting that they were always more than happy with the “great scripts,” “big scripts” and “terrifyingly long scripts,” no matter what difficulties they faced on set. (Gilmore Girls originally aired for seven seasons between 2000 and 2007 and later returned for the Netflix miniseries. Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Lifein 2016.)
The duo later presented the Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Peter Huyck, Alex Gregory And Frida Perez for The studio.
After retiring from acting, Alexis Bledel gave a rare interview where she reflected on her final role before her hiatus. Bledel, 43, discussed her time on “The Handmaid’s Tale” with The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday, May 22, ahead of the show’s series finale, saying, “I was actually offered the role (of…).”
Before appearing alongside Graham at the Emmys, Bledel had not attended public events since she was on the guest list at the Elton John AIDS Foundation’s 32nd Annual Academy Awards Viewing Party in West Hollywood, California in March 2024.
Bledel spent the first four years of the 2020s almost entirely out of the spotlight, aside from attending the Screen Actors Guild Awards (now known as The Actor Awards) in January 2020. The following year, Bledel looked back on the legacy of Gilmore Girls during a Zoom interview on Watch what happens live with Andy Cohen in May 2021.
