Julia Louis-Dreyfus was born on January 13, 1961, in the New York City borough of Manhattan, to Judith (LeFever), a special needs tutor and author, and Gérard Louis-Dreyfus, a billionaire businessman. Her parents divorced when she was young, and she spent her childhood in Washington, D.C., and New York. She met her husband, Brad Hall, while in college, and made her feature movie debut in the Woody Allen film Hannah and Her Sisters (1986). She lives in Los Angeles with Brad and their two children. Her father was born in France, and her grandfather Pierre Louis-Dreyfus was in the French Resistance against the Nazis.

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, and Lauren Bowles in Seinfeld (1989)

Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Lauren Bowles in Seinfeld (1989)

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jerry Seinfeld, and Lauren Bowles in Seinfeld (1989)

Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Joe Piscopo in Saturday Night Live (1975)

Woody Allen, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Julie Kavner, Lewis Black, and Christian Clemenson in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Julie Kavner, and Lewis Black in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jerry Seinfeld, James Hong, and Eun-Kyung Ryu in Seinfeld (1989)

Julia Louis-Dreyfus and James Hong in Seinfeld (1989)

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, and Michael Richards in Seinfeld (1989)

Julia Louis-Dreyfus and James Gandolfini in Enough Said (2013)

Wyatt Russell, David Harbour, Olga Kurylenko, Sebastian Stan, Hannah John-Kamen, Lewis Pullman, and Florence Pugh in Thunderbolts* (2025)

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