JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS: Thank you for the question, Amy. Here, Louis-Dreyfus graciously took some time out of her busy schedule-on her birthday-to answer some questions from a few fancy people who also really, really like Julia. Next up, she stars opposite Will Ferrell in the dramedy Downhill, about a married couple whose relationship is tested during an Alpine ski vacation gone awry. And as Elaine Benes on Seinfeld, she established herself as the best worst dancer in television history. In 2006, she became the first former female cast member of Saturday Night Live, where she launched her comedy career in 1982, to host the show. She shares the record for most Emmy wins by a single performer, with eight (one for Seinfeld, in 1996, one for The New Adventures of Old Christine, in 2006, and six in as many years for Veep), and has three more for producing Veep, which ended last year. At 59, Louis-Dreyfus’s achievements ring loud. Despite excelling at playing amoral characters such as Selina Meyer, the flailing politician she embodied for seven seasons on HBO’s poison-tipped satire Veep, you just can’t help but root for her. Maybe he didn’t realize it in the moment, but Seinfeld had identified the special alchemy that has made Louis-Dreyfus one of the most indelible actors of our time. Jerry Seinfeld could have been speaking for all of us when, in 2018, he stood on stage at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and told a full house,“I just really, really like Julia.” He was, of course, referring to Julia Louis-Dreyfus, his co-star for nine seasons on the sitcom Seinfeld, who that night was accepting the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
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