Alexis Bledel made a really rare public appearance on the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival.
The previous Gilmore Girls star, 44, walked the red carpet for the celebrated film industry gathering at Latest York City’s Village East Cinema on Saturday, June 6, to advertise her latest movie Ponderosa.
Bledel looked elegant as at all times in a golden top with a cutout collar and bow over a knee-length black skirt, with matching pumps.
The veteran TV star made this rare appearance to have fun Ponderosa’s world premiere alongside writer-director Rob Rice and costar Jack Dylan Grazer (Luca).
The horror-comedy centers around a young man (Grazer) who fends off the advances of an odd older man who’s insistent on becoming his stepfather after his mom loses her job at an area buffet. The Queen’s Gambit actor Bill Camp also appears in Ponderosa.
Ponderosa marks Bledel’s first movie role since 2019’s crime thriller Crypto, though she did appear sporadically on the small screen as Emily in The Handmaid’s Tale up until 2025.
Her last major public appearance before attending the Tribeca Film Festival was on the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards in September 2025, where she reunited onstage together with her Gilmore Girls costar Lauren Graham to have fun the twenty fifth anniversary of the classic show on a duplicate of the Stars Hole set.
“25 years ago, a show called Gilmore Girls premiered and apparently took the season of fall hostage,” Graham, 59, joked in the course of the segment.
Alexis Bledel and Lauren Graham onstage in the course of the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards. Kevin Winter/Getty Images
The duo reflected on initially having a meager budget on Gilmore Girls, which required the solid to get creative when it got here to catering.
“If there was a birthday at The Drew Carey Show round the corner, they might send us their leftover sheet cake,” Graham said.
“We looked hungry … Principally we were bullied and ravenous,” Bledel chimed in.
The Gilmore Girls alums mimicked the show’s fast-talking dialogue by insisting that, whatever hardships they faced on set, they were at all times greater than satisfied with the “great scripts,” “big scripts” and “terrifyingly lengthy scripts.” (Gilmore Girls originally aired for seven seasons between 2000 and 2007 and later returned for the Netflix miniseries, Gilmore Girls: A 12 months within the Life, in 2016.)
The duo later presented the Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series Emmy Award to Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Peter Huyck, Alex Gregory and Frida Perez for The Studio.
After taking a step back from acting, Alexis Bledel gave a rare interview wherein she reflected on her last 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 used to be actually offered the role [of […]
Prior to presenting on the Emmys alongside Graham, Bledel had not attended any public events since she made the guest list for the Elton John AIDS Foundation’s thirty second Annual Academy Awards Viewing Party in West Hollywood, California, in March 2024.
Bledel spent the primary 4 years of the 2020s almost entirely out of the highlight, other than attending the Screen Actors Guild Awards (now generally known as The Actor Awards) in January 2020. The next yr, Bledel looked back on the legacy of Gilmore Girls during a Zoom interview on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen in May 2021.