Julia Louis-Dreyfus / Seriously funny woman

Julia was photographed in Manhattan, a mere 4.6 miles from the apartment in which she grew up. Look at her now, wearing a vintage Christian Dior coat from Anouschka Paris over a yellow silk top and matching skirt by VERSACE, with brown satin shoes by PRADA and sunglasses by DOLCE & GABBANA. Tights by WOLFORD.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Seriously funny woman

Text by Seb Emina
Portraits by Inez & Vinoodh
Styling by Paul Sinclaire

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Issue nº 29, Spring and Summer 2024

Comic genius Julia Louis-Dreyfus stood up to the boys and won all the awards. Who’s laughing now?

One day in the Bahamas, Julia Louis-Dreyfus was swimming in open water when her husband, who was back on the boat, shouted something along the lines of “Don’t panic, but there’s a shark in the water. You need to come back.” It was the late 1980s, and they’d tagged along on a scientific expedition to study the local dolphins. The calm azure waters had been a dreamy setting for such an activity, but not any more. A shark can swim at up to 25 miles per hour, a human being no more than six. Julia turned to face the boat and began to kick.

The disgraceful genius of Julia Louis-Dreyfus

 

The disgraceful genius 

of Julia Louis-Dreyfus

From 90s hair-spiration in Seinfeld to the president in Veep, snogging Bryan Cranston and tackling industry sexism, she plays the Hollywood game perfectly


Julia Raeside
Monday 2 May 2016 13.29 BST

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s Veep enters its fifth triumphant series, I’d like to spew forth my unfiltered admiration for Julia Louis-Dreyfus. My 90s hair-spiration as Elaine Benes in Seinfeld, she has come to mean so much more to me than that. She navigates a career in Hollywood in which she has never been the “girlfriend” or the stereotypical female “voice of reason” to her more prominently featured male counterparts. And now she is playing the leader of the free world, albeit a seriously inept one, it looks like there’s little left for her to conquer.