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| Name: | Julia Louis-Dreyfus |
| Height: | 5' 3" |
| Sex: | F |
| Nationality: | American |
| Birth Date: | January 13,1961 |
| Birth Place: | New York, New York, USA |
| Profession: | actress |
| Education: | Northwestern University in Chicago |
| Husband/Wife: | Brad Hall (actor; born in 1958; married in 1987) |
| Father: | Gerard Louis-Dreyfus (French billionaire) |
| Sister: | Phoebe Louis-Dreyfus (Social worker; Younger; born in 1968) |
| Half Sister: | Lauren Bowles (actress) |
| Grand Father: | Pierre Louis-Dreyfus (member of the French Resistance) |
| Son: | Charles (born in 1997) and Henry Hall (born in 1992; father Brad Hall) |
| Claim to fame: | as Elaine Benes in TV series Seinfeld (1990-1998) |
| Contact: | Click here |
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- Has signed up to play the title role in the new comedy Old Christine which will air on CBS. (June 4, 2005)
- After making us laugh for years, Louis-Dreyfus now plays a lounge singer in L.A. in her own NBC sitcom, WATCHING ELLIE, which is back for a second season after a short run last year. (April 30, 2003)
- Nickname: Little Yum-Yum (From her SEINFELD co-stars)
- Met her husband Brad Hall while both were attending Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois).
- Chosen by People Magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world. (1998)
- Both she and husband Brad Hall appeared as part of NBC's Saturday Night Life cast in early 1980s. Only husband/wife team to do so. Earlier had been part of ABC's similar FRIDAYS (1980) sketch-comedy series, where she worked with Michael Richards and Larry David, whom she would reunite with in SEINFELD (1990) success.
- Her Dreyfus family name is linked to prominent Wall Street financial firm.
- Her new TV series, '22 Minutes with Eleanor Riggs', was created for her by husband Brad Hall. They originally wanted it to air commercial free, but that idea was rejected by NBC.
- In college, was a member of Delta Gamma Sorority.
- Performed improv with Chicago's Second City and the Practical Theatre Company, started by husband Brad Hall.
- Both her parents remarried after their divorce (when Julia was one year-old), and she has two half-sisters from her mother's second marriage and two half-sisters from her father's second marriage. She considers both her step-parents to be as important in her life as her biological parents.
- Her grandfather, Pierre Louis-Dreyfus, was a member of the French Reisistance during WWII, and flew 88 missions for Charles de Gaulle's Free French Air Force.
- Fought NBC censors to allow a scene where a man runs around his house completely naked in front of Ellie (Julia's character in WATCHING ELLIE). She won.
- Her character in SEINFELD, 'Elaine', did not appear in the original pilot.
- Half-sister, Lauren Bowles, acts with her in WATCHING ELLIE (2002).
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