

“I’m so glad that he liked ‘Veep’ because his opinion was the one that really mattered.” “Lastly, I’d like to dedicate this to my father, William Louis-Dreyfus, who passed away on Friday,” Louis-Dreyfus said. In September 2016, she broke down in tears on stage as she accepted her fifth Emmy Award for playing politician Selina Meyer in “Veep.” (She’s won eight acting Emmys in total, six for “Veep.”) She revealed that her father, billionaire business mogul William Louis-Dreyfus, had died two days earlier. Indeed, the past two years have been a time of both triumph and tragedy for the award-winning actress. “It’s been a very bad period of time,” she added. “Given the fact that that heinous (expletive) came out, I would simply say I’ve kept this under wraps out of reverence for my dearest Emma,” Julia Louis-Dreyfus told the New Yorker.

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After the end of the series in 1998, Louis-Dreyfus starred in several other television situation comedies. The series, famously about "nothing," but really about the everyday foibles of single people in New York City, also starred Jason *Alexander and Michael Richards. The show proved to be the most popular series of the 1990s, and she won an Emmy Award as best supporting actress in a comedy series in 1996 for her role in Seinfeld.

After three years, 1982 to 1985, on the popular television series Saturday Night Live and appearances in a number of films, including Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989), Louis-Dreyfus was cast as Elaine Benes, the ex-girlfriend and pal of Jerry *Seinfeld in the comedy series Seinfeld in 1989. Julia Louis-Dreyfus studied theater at Northwestern University in Chicago and began her theatrical career there with the Practical Theater Company and the Second City Comedy troupe. Her cousin Robert Louis-Dreyfus was the owner of Adidas, the sports-equipment manufacturer, and of the French soccer club Olympique de Marseille. Her grandfather, Pierre Louis-Dreyfus, fought for the French Resistance during World War ii. Her father is Gerard Louis-Dreyfus, an important French financier.

Born in New York but raised in Washington, Louis-Dreyfus has roots in a prominent French banking and financial family.
