What was Julia Louis-Dreyfus's first screen acting role?
List of Curb Your Enthusiasm recurring roles
Julia Louis-Dreyfus (as a fictionalized version of herself, Seasons 1–2, 7) is an actress Larry worked with on "Seinfeld" and "Saturday Night Live". They have known each other since 1984. Julia Louis-Dreyfus first appeared in the Season 1 episode, "The Wire." In the episode "The Wire", Larry and Cheryl have been trying to convince their neighbors, the Weinstocks, to help get an electrical wire removed from their property. In order to sign off on it, the Weinstocks, who are big "Seinfeld" fans, wanted to meet Julia Louis-Dreyfus. In Season 2, Larry worked on a sitcom with Julia, but the project fell through with ABC, CBS, and HBO. Julia returned in Season 7 to star in a "Seinfeld" reunion episode.
Meryl Streep on screen and stage
In 1995, Streep starred opposite Clint Eastwood as an unhappily married woman in "The Bridges of Madison County", her biggest critical and commercial success of the decade. Although her dramas of the late 1990s received a mixed reception overall, she was praised for her role as a cancer patient in "One True Thing" (1998). She had acclaimed roles in the 2002 films "Adaptation." and "The Hours", and won a second Emmy Award for the television miniseries "Angels in America" a year later, though she failed to replicate her earlier success. This changed in 2006, with an Academy Award-nominated role as a ruthless fashion magazine editor in the comedy-drama "The Devil Wears Prada". This late-period success led to starring roles in several high-profile films, including the US$609 million-grossing romantic comedy "Mamma Mia!" (2008), her highest-grossing release, and the comedy-drama "Julie & Julia" (2009), in which she played Julia Child. These roles re-established Streep's stardom in Hollywood. Her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in the biopic "The Iron Lady" (2011) earned her another Academy Award for Best Actress. The starring role of Katharine Graham in the 2017 drama "The Post" garnered Streep her 21st Oscar nomination, more than any actor or actress in history.