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LouisDreyfus Maternal Halfsister Lauren Bowles Is Also An Actress Appearing With Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s

She was later cast in the role of Elaine Benes on the NBC sitcom Seinfeld for which she achieved much critical and commercial success. Her mother, Judith, was a writer and special needs tutor, and her father, Gérard Louis-Dreyfus (also known as William Louis-Dreyfus), was a French attorney and business executive. Both her paternal grandmother and mother were American. Louis-Dreyfus’ maternal half-sister, Lauren Bowles, is also an actress, appearing with her on Seinfeld and The New Adventures of Old Christine, as well as on Veronica Mars and in the film Ghost World. She graduated from the Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, MD in 1979, and attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where she studied theater, appeared in the Waa-Mu Show, and was a member of the Delta Gamma sorority.

After Relocating To Washington DC When Julia Was Eight Her Mother Married

She rose to prominence as one of the regular cast members of Saturday Night Live in the early 1980s. Her parents divorced in 1962, a year after her birth. After relocating to Washington, D.C., when Julia was eight, her mother married L. Thompson Bowles, Dean of the George Washington University Medical School. She, Hall, and future SNL writer Paul Barrosse all were members of the community’s storefront theater troupe, the Practical Theatre Company.