Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Louis-Dreyfus was born in New York City, the daughter of the French billionaire Gérard Louis-Dreyfus, and entered comedy as a performer with the Practical Theatre Company in Chicago. This led to her being cast in the sketch show Saturday Night Live. Her breakthrough came in 1990 with her debut at the start of a nine-season run on Seinfeld, which became one of the most critically and commercially successful sitcoms. In addition to leading roles on The New Adventures of Old Christine and Veep, she has made guest appearances on shows such as Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and 30 Rock. On film, Louis-Dreyfus has had supporting film roles in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989), Deconstructing Harry (1997), and You People (2023), and leading film roles in Enough Said (2013), Downhill (2020), You Hurt My Feelings (2023), and Tuesday (2023). Her voice-acting work includes A Bug's Life (1998), Planes (2013), and Onward (2020). Since 2021, she has played Valentina Allegra de Fontaine in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in three films and one Disney+ miniseries.
Louis-Dreyfus has received 11 Primetime Emmy Awards (eight for acting and three for producing), nine Screen Actors Guild Awards, and one Golden Globe Award. She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010. She was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 2014. She was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world in 2016. She has also received numerous honors including the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2018 and the National Medal of Arts in 2021.
Filmography (101 Appearances)
The Sheep Detectives
Avengers: Secret Wars
Tangles
The Art of Being Nick
The Nanny Squatter
Thunderbolts*
The Academy of Armando
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
The Day Drinking with Seth Meyers New Year's Special
The Little Pageant That Could
Tuesday
You Hurt My Feelings
Being Mary Tyler Moore
You People
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Be My Guest with Ina Garten
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye
Black Widow
Senior Entourage
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Marvel Studios Assembled
Onward
Downhill
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman
The Words That Built America
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Weekly with Charlie Pickering
Generosity of Eye
Live from New York!
Hot Ones
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Barely Legal Pawn
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
James Gandolfini: Tribute to a Friend
Making a Scene | 11 Performances
Enough Said
Planes
Picture Paris
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
Veep
Inside Comedy
Web Therapy
Conan
The Women of SNL
The Jay Leno Show
Web Therapy
The Pixar Story
Jerry Seinfeld: Submarine Captain
30 Rock
The Megan Mullally Show
Talkshow with Spike Feresten
The One Show
The New Adventures of Old Christine
Earth to America
Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found
Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live
The Seinfeld Story
Seinfeld: How It Began
Kramer vs. Kramer: Kenny to Cosmo
The Tony Danza Show
Arrested Development
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Naqoyqatsi
Watching Ellie
Primetime Glick
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Geppetto
The Early Show
Animal Farm
A Bug's Life
Deconstructing Harry
The View
Fathers' Day
Hey Arnold!
London Suite
The Daily Show
The Single Guy
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
Extra
Inside the Actors Studio
North
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Late Show with David Letterman
Jack the Bear
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Dinosaurs
The Simpsons
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Seinfeld
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Day by Day
Soul Man
Hannah and Her Sisters
Troll
Family Ties
Saturday Night Live