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Louis-Dreyfus was born January 13, 1961 in the Manhattan borough of New York City. Her mother, Judith, was a writer and special needs tutor, and her father, Gérard Louis-Dreyfus (also known as William Louis-Dreyfus), is a French attorney and business executive.[1][2] Her paternal grandfather was Pierre Louis-Dreyfus (1908-2011),[3] a French Jew who fought in the French Resistance during World War II.[4] Both her paternal grandmother and mother were American. In 1962, only one year after her birth, her parents divorced. After relocating to Washington, D.C. when Julia was eight,[5] her mother married L. Thompson Bowles, Dean of the George Washington University Medical School.[1][6]
Louis-Dreyfus has two half-sisters on her father's side, Emma and Phoebe.[7] Through her father, a billionaire heir to the Louis Dreyfus Group,[2] she had a cousin, Robert Louis-Dreyfus (1946–2009), former CEO of Adidas and owner of the Olympique de Marseille soccer team.[8] 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.
Louis-Dreyfus spent her childhood in several states and countries in connection with her stepfather's work with Project HOPE, including Sri Lanka, Colombia and Tunisia.[9] She graduated from the Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, MD in 1979, and attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where she studied theatre for several years before dropping out due to a professional acting job offer.[10] In 2007 she was invited back to Northwestern to receive an honorary Doctor of Arts degree.[11]


Eric D. Schwerin
Rosemont Seneca Partners, LLC
1010 Wisconsin Ave., NW
Suite 705
Washington, DC 20007
(202) 333-1880
eschwerin@rosemontseneca.com
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