Trix Gilmore
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Lorelai "Trix" Gilmore is a fictional character on the television show Gilmore Girls. She was played by Marion Ross.
Lorelai is the mother of Richard Gilmore, and is the one after whom his and Emily's daughter Lorelai is named. Richard's nickname for her is "Trix." She was married to Richard's father, Charles Gilmore, who died sometime during his granddaughter's childhood or before. After her husband's death, Trix lived in London, and eventually began splitting her time between London and Hartford, Connecticut. She made a few appearances throughout the first four seasons until her death in Episode #4.16, "The Reigning Lorelai."
She strongly disapproved of her son's marriage to Emily and is extremely critical of her throughout the series. Upon her death, Emily found out that the day before her wedding to Richard, Trix wrote him, telling him to call off the wedding. Ironically, the character whose personality is most like Trix's is Emily's. However, Emily is no match for Trix, to the delight of the other Lorelais.
Another curious fact was revealed after her death: Charles Gilmore was, aside from Trix's husband, also her second cousin, thus both her maiden and married names were Gilmore. Lorelai and Rory both found this fact horribly disgusting and began to speculate whether certain quirky traits and characteristics of their own might be attributed to a mutation caused by this inbreeding.
[edit] Trivia
- For a year, while she was staying in London, Trix rented her house in Hartford to Korn. She says they were "fine tenants. Took wonderful care of the place. They planted some lovely tulips in the front yard."[1]
- Based on the way that Richard and Emily refer to the "original" Lorelai in the past tense ("she was...") and the fact that Rory is up until that point unaware that her mother wasn't the first Lorelai, it seems that the show's creators did not originally intend to ever use Trix as a living character on the show.
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Lorelai Gilmore | Rory Gilmore | Luke Danes | Christopher Hayden | Sookie St. James | Lane Kim | Paris Geller | Jess Mariano | Logan Huntzberger | Kirk Gleason | Emily Gilmore | Richard Gilmore |
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Jackson Belleville | Taylor Doose | Dean Forester | Michel Gerard | Jason Stiles | Max Medina | Trix Gilmore | Mrs. Kim |
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