Round 5: Julia Louis Dreyfus

Julia Louis Dreyfus was born in New York. Descending from the famous Louis-Dreyfus family, specialized in plane equipments. Who thought Julia would have thrown herself in stand up comedy?

Due to her parents’s divorce, Julia has been compelled to move abroad including Tunisia or Columbia.Then, she started her studies and got graded from the Holton Arms School, Maryland. She continued her studies at Northwestern university, where she entered the Delta Gamma Fraternity. Did you know about that? In this University, she started studying theater and made part of an improvisation group. This might have helped her in her next move.

Indeed, she integrated the SNL (Saturday Night Live) for playing stand up. There she met Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David, whom she‘ll be shooting the cult show Seinfeld with, a few years later. The role of Elain Baines, an excentric and nevrotic young woman, consecrated Julia as a comedy star.