How Much Does Lauren Graham Get Paid From 'Gilmore Girls' Netflix Success? The Amount Will Surprise You

Published 03/23/2025, 9:47 PM EDT

With a name such that starts to ring a familiar chant of la-la-la's in all our heads, even having some of the reminiscers hitting crescendos wherever they go (with a pumpkin spice latte in their blood-red gel-manicured hands, of course), it turns out that the Gilmore Girls romanticizers were not always in the numbers they are in today. That is, if Lauren Graham's residuals from the show are anything to go by. 

Having been carefully cocooning itself with heart all around it, Gilmore Girls seems to have been gaining newer and many more bewitched as the years go by. Giving the most Gilmore Girl of them all, Lauren Graham, a peculiar currency. One priceless to the expenses of life.  

Lauren Grahams currency of hearts: the Gilmore Girls success' impact

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Almost a decade after it was even taken for a spin (off), before becoming the modern-day Pinterest-worthy mood board for every girl's autumnal dream, the Gilmore Girls franchise had earned itself some notoriety to its name. However, amendments were made once the show was hung up on Netflix's wall of guaranteed fame, with its niche. And with it came the "love" that Lauren Graham boasts that she is paid in after all these years, rather than actual capital, for her role as Lorelai Gilmore, as she revealed to Jimmy Kimmel Live on the show's upcoming twenty-fifth anniversary, and pointed not in residuals

Not having much fervor that it was met with while being aired on its original runner WB, it had survived a total of seven seasons before being dropped off. The show's recent rise to popularity has been a big bow of gratitude to the streaming mogul of the 2000s, which is evident when the actress reveals how they have reached a larger audience than they ever had through Warner Bros. And with how it has been seeping into the mainstream of popular-culture as of late, the fifty-eight-year-old Gilmore testator has gotten "stopped a lot", as a result of the favoritism around the nostalgia-inducing number. 

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Famous or not, the Gilmore Girls had an unbeatable charm to itself, even back in the day. It was not sans potential that Netflix might have picked it up for an inventory renewal. In fact, it was one loaded with thought. For the early 2000s, of course. 

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Cementing the image of what the most perfect version of the time of Year-2-K could have been, Gilmore Girls had set itself down a path that would be visited time and again by both creators and spectators alike. From Pinterest boards to fashion boosters, to taking inspiration from Lorelai's most creative Halloween decors. Impromptu family nights which had taken both the Gilmore mom and the audience alike, by surprise, the show has had much to offer. As it walks its twenty-fifth year down memory lane, its multitudes of episodes to curl up to every winter-fall of the years to come, the show is bound to never go out of style. 

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With more than two decades rounding up under its belt, the charm of Gilmore Girls persists through time, resonating with audiences both old and new. The enthusiasm around the show's revival on the streaming giant Netflix had been everything to go by, solidifying its status as a cultural touchstone. Even making the "love" instead of monetary reimbursement a satisfactory compensation for the players of the show. 

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Is Gilmore Girls one of your watchlist staples on Netflix as well? Let us know in the comments below.

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