Lorelai Gilmore. Sarah Braverman. Linda from HR. That’s right, Lauren Graham might have just booked her next iconic role. Deadline writes that the “Gilmore Girls” and “Parenthood” star is set to headline “Linda from HR,” a single-camera comedy for Fox.
Graham will play the series’ titular character, Linda Plugh. According to Deadline, the show will center on the “one bad decision” that throws “Linda from HR’s monotonous, unfulfilled life into an exciting but dangerous tailspin of balancing work life, home life, and a secret that could unravel everything.”
From Tracy Katsky’s Kat Co. and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment, “Linda from HR” is penned by Geoff Barbanell and Itai Grunfeld, and directed by Marc Buckland. Barbanell and Grunfeld serve as executive producers alongside Kaplan, Katsky, and Dana Honor.
Deadline also mentions that Graham will have a recurring role on the next season of “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” No details about her character just yet, but the source shares that she “will recur alongside popular returning guest stars like Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen.” We can only hope to see a sparring match in which Graham uses her trademark mile-a-minute diction to put creator-star Larry David in his place.
Graham recently reprised her most-famous role, Lorelai Gilmore, in Netflix’s “Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life.” The four mini-movies picked up about a decade after the original WB series left off and followed Lorelai, her daughter, Rory (Alexis Bledel), and her mother, Emily (Kelly Bishop), throughout one calendar year.
Graham previously portrayed Lorelai, a young single mother building a business from the ground up, from 2000–2006 on “Gilmore Girls.” She played Sarah Braverman, another single mother in a family dramedy, on NBC’s “Parenthood” from 2010–2015. A few years back, Graham was set to star in a comedy series from Ellen DeGeneres about the first woman to host a late night talk show, but it never materialized.
The top-earning TV actress’s other acting credits include “Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life,” co-written by Kara Holden, “Joshy,” and “Web Therapy,” starring and co-created by Lisa Kudrow. Also a writer, Graham has penned two books in the past four years. Her 2013 novel, “Someday, Someday Maybe,” is about a young actress trying to make it in New York. Her memoir, “Talking As Fast As I Can: From ‘Gilmore Girls’ to ‘Gilmore Girls’ (And Everything in Between),” was published last fall.
