Louis-Dreyfus was subsequently one of many actresses considered for the role of Susan Mayer on Desperate Housewives, which would go onto become ABC's mega-hit of the 2004-05 television season.

In the early-1990s Louis-Dreyfus became famous for the role of Elaine Benes on NBC's Seinfeld.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus ( Elaine ) has claimed that she was not aware of the pilot before she became a regular on Seinfeld.

Louis-Dreyfus also received considerable critical acclaim for her performance on the show, with Brian Lowry of Variety stating that Louis-Dreyfus breaks the Seinfeld curse " with one of the best conventional half-hours to come along in a while.

Robert Louis-Dreyfus ( 1946 – 2009 ), one of her cousins, was former CEO of Adidas and owner of the Olympique de Marseille soccer team.

The editorial content contained one full-page photo, of actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and one three-page, seven-photo essay, of Kaiju Big Battel.

** Tina Fey is now the first Lorne Michaels-era former female cast member to host more than one episode and the second former female cast member overall to host more than one episode, following Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

In the DVD audio commentary for the episode, current show runner Al Jean stated that working with Louis-Dreyfus was " an absolute pleasure ", stating that " not only was she funny but you'd give her, like, one suggestion, and she'd do three great things with it.

Louis-Dreyfus as a part of the Golden 50th Anniversary Jubilee, alongside cast mates Brad Hall, Gary Kroeger and Paul Barrosse

In 2005, it was announced that Louis-Dreyfus had been cast in the title role of a new CBS sitcom The New Adventures of Old Christine.

In May 2006, Louis-Dreyfus hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live, becoming the first former female cast member to return to the show in the hosting role.

In November 2010, Louis-Dreyfus was cast in the lead role of U. S. Vice President Selina Meyer in a new HBO comedy pilot entitled Veep.

Louis-Dreyfus has publicly commended HBO for allowing the cast and crew to engage in a " protracted pre-production process ", which included a six week rehearsal period before filming began.

As Louis-Dreyfus noted in a November 2005 retrospective, the newcomers, particularly Crystal, Short, and Guest, all but took over the show, relegating her and most of the rest of the cast to supporting roles.

During this time Boyd was cast in NBC comedy Watching Ellie a vehicle for former Seinfeld star Julia Louis-Dreyfus, as Ben Radfield.

She is the great-great-granddaughter of Léopold Louis-Dreyfus, who in 1851 founded the Louis Dreyfus Group, a commodities and shipping multinational, which members of the family control to this day.

In May 2010, Louis-Dreyfus received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to the broadcast television industry.

Louis-Dreyfus was born Julia Scarlett Elizabeth Louis-Dreyfus in Manhattan, New York on January 13, 1961.

More recently Louis-Dreyfus has commented that her casting on SNL was a " Cinderella-getting-to-go-to-the-ball kind of experience ", however, she has also admitted that at times it was often quite tense, stating that she " didn't know how to navigate the waters of show business in general and specifically doing a live sketch-comedy show.

After several years away from a regular TV gig, Louis-Dreyfus began a new single-camera sitcom Watching Ellie which premiered on NBC in February 2002.

Instead Louis-Dreyfus scored a recurring guest role as the deceitful prosecutor and love interest of Michael Bluth on the Emmy Award winning comedy Arrested Development from 2004 to 2005.

After a successful reception from her 2006 episode, Louis-Dreyfus was invited again to host SNL on March 17, 2007.

Louis-Dreyfus at the unveiling of her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, May 2010In 2007, Louis-Dreyfus reprised her role as Gloria on The Simpsons, which she had first originated in the 2001 episode " A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love ", in the episode " I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings ".

Louis-Dreyfus received the 2, 407th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on May 4, 2010 for her remarkable contribution to the broadcast television industry as both an actress and a comedian.

In fall 2010, Louis-Dreyfus made a guest appearance on the live episode of the Emmy Award winning comedy 30 Rock.

Louis-Dreyfus also starred in a " Women of SNL " special November 1, 2010, on NBC.

For her first season performance on Veep Louis-Dreyfus received numerous awards and nominations, notably a nomination for the Television Critics Association Award.

Louis-Dreyfus has two half-sisters on her father's side, Emma and Phoebe.

Elaine Marie Benes is a fictional character on the American television sitcom Seinfeld ( 1989 – 1998 ), played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

* During her interview on Inside The Actor's Studio, Julia Louis-Dreyfus said she believed Jerry and Elaine were soul mates but would never end up together because they were both too " insane and messed up.

Cheryl is tired of Larry not working, so he begins to develop a new television show, initially with guest stars Jason Alexander and Julia Louis-Dreyfus ( George and Elaine on Seinfeld, respectively ) as themselves.

The Saturday Night Live episode guest-hosted by Louis-Dreyfus made several references to the curse.

Louis-Dreyfus was among several Saturday Night Live alumni appearing in the episode, including Rachel Dratch, Bill Hader, Tracy Morgan, Alec Baldwin, and Tina Fey herself.

While at Northwestern, Louis-Dreyfus met future husband and Saturday Night Live comedian Brad Hall.

He is married to actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus ( Seinfeld, Saturday Night Live and The New Adventures of Old Christine ), whom he met while both were attending Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Following her 1985 departure from SNL, Louis-Dreyfus appeared in several films, including Hannah and Her Sisters which was directed by Woody Allen, and the cult classic National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation in which she starred alongside Chevy Chase.

She says some elements of the character of Elaine, especially her assertiveness, intelligence and sense of humor, are drawn from the off-screen personality of Julia Louis-Dreyfus herself.

In 1940, Louis-Dreyfus moved to the United States with his mother after her divorce from Pierre.

After graduating from Duke University and Duke University School of Law, Louis-Dreyfus worked at the law firm of Dewey Ballantine, New York, before joining Louis Dreyfus in 1965.

Louis-Dreyfus was chairman of the Poetry Society of America from 1998-2008.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus ( who worked with Dick Ebersol from 1982 to 1985 ) returned to host in May 2006.

Elaine does not appear in either part of " The Trip ", and appears only minimally in " The Pitch " and " The Ticket ", due to the fact that Julia Louis-Dreyfus was on maternity leave, making Jerry Seinfeld the only actor to appear in every episode, as Jason Alexander and Michael Richards are not in the episode " The Pen " from season 3.