What The Cast Of Friday Night Lights Is Up To Today

Stacey Oristano played stripper Mindy Riggins on "Friday Night Lights." She has landed mostly small parts and guest-starring roles since then. But one well-known producer, Amy Sherman-Palladino, gave the actor two coveted roles. Sherman-Palladino, who created "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" and "Gilmore Girls," cast Oristano as a quirky fashion designer named Truly Stone on "Bunheads," a short-lived dramedy that premiered in 2012 on ABC Family.

Oristano said she picked up one very important skill for any Sherman-Palladino project. "I learned quickly that I could talk really fast and do really well with all the dialogue that they threw at me," she told The TV Junkies in 2015. The two women teamed up again in 2016 for the reboot, "Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life." As she explained to TV Insider, when Sherman-Palladino emailed her, "Obviously you're going to be in it; I'm going to write you something," Oristano was overjoyed.

Other roles have included Trina on "Shameless," Nurse Frankie on "Grey's Anatomy," and Rebecca in the 2021 horror film "The Stairs." Oristano, who also performs on stage, said "Friday Night Lights" has "been the biggest thing that's ever happened to me," per Backstage. 

"I was only supposed to be in one episode in Season 1," she recalled to The TV Junkies. But "they asked me if I would do two more and it sort of took off from there."

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