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Elaine Marie Benes (/ ˈ b ɛ n ɪ s /) is a fictional character on the American television sitcom Seinfeld, played by former SNL cast member 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.
In "The Slicer", Kramer tells Elaine that Lomez blew his neighbor's circuit to stop an incessant alarm, prompting her to do the same. Later in the same episode, Kramer tells Elaine that, in blowing his neighbor's circuit, Lomez caused the automatic cat feeder to stop functioning, resulting in incessant meowing from the neighbor's cat.
Julia Scarlett Elizabeth Louis-Dreyfus (/ ˌ l uː i ˈ d r aɪ f ə s / LOO-ee DRY-fəs; born January 13, 1961) is an American actress and comedian.Often described as one of the greatest performers in television history, [1] [2] [3] she is widely known for her roles as various characters on Saturday Night Live (1982–1985), Elaine Benes on Seinfeld (1990–1998), Christine Campbell on The ...
Frank, displeased at Estelle's cooking, decides to cook again and helps Kramer get ready for Jewish singles night. Working well as a team of two, Elaine and Eddie finish the catalogue. When Elaine finds out he adopted his frightening persona after a failure to meet a nice Jewish woman and settle down, she takes him to the Jewish singles night.
Now it's tough to imagine "Seinfeld" without the (badly) dancing, big salad-eating, John F. Kennedy Jr.-spotting, pal-shoving Elaine Benes, but the character wasn't part of the pilot.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus became a comedy icon for playing Elaine Benes on nine seasons of NBC’s “Seinfeld,” but the role wasn’t completely fulfilling for her when the show first got off the ground.
The episode's co-writer, Peter Mehlman, got the inspiration for the episode's Jerry story when an old friend of his made a Jewish joke.Mehlman felt momentarily offended, but then remembered that his friend had converted to Judaism 20 years before, and started to wonder if it had taken that long for his friend to feel comfortable making Jewish jokes.
His "Seinfeld" work came in three episodes in 1993-94 playing a co-worker of Elaine Benes, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Kasten and his wife, Diana Kastenbaum moved to Batavia in 2012 so she ...