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Birth Name: Julia Elizabeth Scarlett Louis-Dreyfus. Nickname: Little Yum-Yum (From her Seinfeld co-stars). Born: January 13, 1961, New York, New York, USA. Height: 5' 2½" (1.59 m). Shoe size: 8 1/2. Spouse(s): -Brad Hall (1987 - present) they have two children. Julia Louis-Dreyfus biography (bio): Julia Scarlett Elizabeth Louis-Dreyfus is an Emmy, Golden Globe, and SAG Award-winning American actress and comedian who gained popularity while playing the role of Elaine Benes on the NBC sitcom Seinfeld in the 1990s. She currently stars in the CBS sitcom The New Adventures of Old Christine. Personal life: Louis-Dreyfus was born in New York City to a wealthy family known for owning the Louis Dreyfus Group, an international commodities trading and merchandising firm. Her mother, Judith, is a writer, and her father, Gérard Louis-Dreyfus (who changed his name to William in the 1940s), is an attorney and business executive. Her parents divorced during her childhood and her mother remarried to L. Thompson Bowles. Louis-Dreyfus' paternal grandfather, Pierre Louis-Dreyfus, was a French Jew who was a member of the French Resistance during World War II; he was the grandson of Leopold Louis-Dreyfus, who founded the Louis-Dreyfus Group. Her cousin, Robert Louis-Dreyfus, is the former CEO of Adidas (1993–2001); another cousin, Kaitlin Coble, is Miss North Carolina Teen USA 2007. Louis-Dreyfus spent her childhood in several countries, living with her mother and stepfather. She was later raised in Bethesda, Maryland, and graduated from the Holton-Arms School. She attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where she studied theater and was a member of the Delta Gamma sorority which she left after a semester of membership. She did not graduate from Northwestern and dropped out to pursue her career. She was, however, awarded a honorary Doctor of Arts degree from Northwestern University in 2007. Since 1987 she has been married to actor/writer Brad Hall, whom she met while they were students at Northwestern. Hall also worked on SNL. The couple has two sons, Henry (born 1992) and Charles (born 1997). Career: Louis-Dreyfus was a cast member on NBC's Saturday Night Live from 1982 to 1985. While on SNL, she met writer Larry David, who would later co-create Seinfeld. Louis-Dreyfus also appeared in quite a few sitcoms and films over the years but is best known for her nine-season role as "Elaine Benes" on NBC's Seinfeld from 1990 to 1998, in which she appeared in all but three episodes. After Seinfeld, Louis-Dreyfus began a new NBC sitcom, Watching Ellie, which was canceled after two abbreviated seasons. She had a notable recurring guest role as the deceitful prosecutor Maggie Lizer on Arrested Development. Louis-Dreyfus came to be seen as a victim of "the Seinfeld Curse", a term applied to typecast actors who, after appearing in an enormously popular television series or movie, have trouble finding popularity in other roles. However, the impressive ratings for The New Adventures of Old Christine plus the series' renewal for a third season have shown that any "curse" is apparently broken in Louis-Dreyfus' case. She received a Lead Actress Emmy Award for her work on the first season of The New Adventures of Old Christine. She returned to host Saturday Night Live on May 13, 2006, becoming the first former female cast member to return as host (Gilda Radner was supposed to host in the 1987-88 season (season 13), but a writers' strike cut the season short and Radner died of ovarian cancer a year later). Louis-Dreyfus appeared with former Seinfeld mates Jason Alexander and Jerry Seinfeld in the opening monologue, parodying the so-called "Seinfeld Curse". She mocked the curse once again while accepting her Emmy award in 2006. Louis-Dreyfus made SNL history again when she became the first former female castmember to host SNL a second time, on March 17, 2007. She has also appeared on Seinfeld co-creator Larry David's show Curb Your Enthusiasm, playing herself fictionally trying to break the "curse" by planning to star in a show in which she would play an actress affected by a Seinfeld-like curse. That storyline expanded on Seinfeld's "show about nothing" theme by twisting it into a "show about a show about a show about nothing." |