Yes, she is part of the Louis-Dreyfus family, a wealthy Franco-American family best-known for the Louis Dreyfus Grouphttp://www.answers.com/topic/louis-dreyfus-group, an international investment and banking firm.
She started with a brief gig on SNL (Saturday Night Live), then was found by Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David and offered the part of Elaine Benes on Seinfeld. That ran for 9 seasons and she is most...