Sookie St. James is a fictional character on the television series Gilmore Girls, played by Melissa McCarthy.
Sookie is a kind-hearted, top chef and co-owner of the Dragonfly Inn with Lorelai Gilmore. She is married to Jackson Bellville with whom she has two children named Davey and Martha. At the end of the series, she was pregnant with her third child. She originally met Lorelai Gilmore while working at the Independence Inn where Lorelai was the executive manager and the two were best friends throughout the series. Sookie is a culinary genius with perfectionist tendencies that is very ambitious in both her cooking and baking. Sookie is unable to delegate in her kitchen and there are several storylines throughout the series that comically highlight her inherent control issues. She is also known for being somewhat of a scatter brain and a klutz as she is often re-writing her menus (often up to the very last minute) and getting injured in the kitchen (the first scene in her kitchen...
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