Not Elaine from Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus Missed Playing 1 TV Character the Most From Her Pre-Marvel Era (2025)

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Not Elaine from Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus Missed Playing 1 TV Character the Most From Her Pre-Marvel Era? ›

Despite the popularity of Seinfeld, particularly her character in the series, Louis-Dreyfus picked a different character as the role she would want to reprise. The actress revealed in an interview that she missed her time as. Here is what Louis-Dreyfus had to say about her Veep role.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus says criticism like Jerry Seinfeld's of political correctness is a 'red flag' “I think to have an antenna about sensitivities is not a bad thing. It doesn't mean that all comedy goes out the window as a result,” she told The New York Times.

Elaine Marie Benes (/ˈbɛnɪs/) is a fictional character on the American television sitcom Seinfeld, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Elaine's best friend in the sitcom is her ex-boyfriend Jerry Seinfeld, and she is also good friends with George Costanza and Cosmo Kramer.

She arrived at SNL alongside two other Northwestern classmates: Brad Hall, who's been married to Louis-Dreyfus since 1987, and Gary Kroeger. Hall was the anchor of Saturday Night News, which temporarily replaced SNL's "Weekend Update" format at the time.

In the course of five years, psychiatry students and their professor at Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey have concluded that Kramer's behavior is in line with that of people given diagnoses of schizoid personality disorder.

"The Puerto Rican Day" episode of Seinfeld caused outrage for burning and stomping on the Puerto Rican flag.

Her mother was a tutor and a writer who moved to Washington, D.C., when Julia was eight, and her father was a French-born businessman in New York City. Louis-Dreyfus was educated at a private girls' school, the Holton-Arms School, in Bethesda, Maryland.

During filming of "The Keys," Julia Louis-Dreyfus was pregnant with her first child, Henry. Throughout the episode, she hides behind various props to hide her pregnancy as her character, Elaine, was not pregnant.

Louis-Dreyfus uses this anecdote as an introduction to her discussion with longtime food writer Ruth Reichl, but it's worth noting that she was also 28 when Seinfeld premiered on NBC in 1989.

Are Jerry and Elaine friends in real life? ›

On-screen, the friendships of Jerry Seinfeld and his kooky single friends, Elaine Benes, George Costanza, and Cosmo Kramer seemed solid. The foursome made so many stops at the coffee shop and faced so much together during the nine seasons of Seinfeld that it's hard to believe that the cast wasn't friends in real life.

While the rest of the main cast ended their Seinfeld journeys well into their 40s, Elaine's wrapped up while she was still in her late 30s.

Some of this is explained away by Seinfeld lore. Jerry dated Elaine and both were mature enough to continue a platonic friendship (except for a brief “friends with benefits” dalliance in season two's “The Deal”). George and Kramer, out of deference for Jerry, would respect that.

The TV show follows the mainly mundane but always amusing lives of Jerry Seinfeld as a fictionalized version of himself and three of his friends: best friend George Costanza (played by Jason Alexander), former girlfriend Elaine Benes (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), and his neighbor from across the hall, Cosmo Kramer (Michael ...

The series revolves around Jerry's misadventures with his best friend George Costanza, neighbor Cosmo Kramer, and ex-girlfriend Elaine Benes. He is usually the voice of reason amid his friends' antics and the focal point of the relationship.

Elaine (Louis Dreyfus) missed the first two parts of "The Trip" opening of Seinfield series fourth season because Louis-Dreyfus was on maternity leave. In all likelihood, if "The Trip" was produced at a later date, Elaine would have been included. Elaine made her screen debut in season 1.