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Julia Louis-Dreyfus is 50 years old
Born: 13 January 1961
Birthplace: New York, New York
Best known as:
Elaine on the sitcom Seinfeld

4 good links

AMG: Julia Louis-Dreyfus
The All Movie Guide recaps her career
The New Adventures of Old Christine
CBS's official site for her 2006 sitcom
The Seinfeld Blog
Unusual (and detailed) fan site, with complete scripts and DVD sales pitches
Seinfeld's Julia-Louis Dreyfus
Old-school fan site with photos from the early days

Julia Louis-Dreyfus Biography

Actor

Julia Louis-Dreyfus played Elaine Benes, ex-girlfriend and pal of Jerry Seinfeld, on the hit sitcomSeinfeld from 1990-98. (Their co-stars included Michael Richards as Kramer and Jason Alexander as George Costanza.) Louis-Dreyfus got her start in big-time comedy at Chicago's Second City club, and was a regular on TV's Saturday Night Live from 1982-85. She made her movie debut in Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters in 1986. She starred in her own short-lived sitcom in 2002, Watching Ellie, and in 2006 she began playing a divorced mom in another new sitcom, The New Adventures of Old Christine.

Extra credit:

Louis-Dreyfus won an Emmy Award as best supporting actress in a comedy series for Seinfeld in 1996... She married fellow SNL alumnus Brad Hall in 1987... She is the daughter of billionaire French businessman Gérard Louis-Dreyfus.