Julia Louis-Dreyfus is getting a noteworthy satire respect.
The Veep star is set to get the 21st yearly Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts declared Wednesday. The prize, which is “named to respect one of the world’s most noteworthy humorists,” will be given to Louis-Dreyfus by her kindred performers at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall on Oct. 21.
Past beneficiaries of the honor incorporate David Letterman, Bill Murray, Eddie Murphy, Tina Fey, Jay Leno and Carol Burnett. (In an in the first place, the Kennedy Center as of late repudiated the honor they provided for indicted star Bill Cosby in 2009, alongside his 1998 Kennedy Center Honor.)
Louis-Dreyfus is the main lady to get the honor since Burnett earned the respect in 2013, and she is just the 6th lady to ever get the respect.
Breaking news! The Kennedy Center will present the 2018 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor to Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
What’s your favorite memory from @OfficialJLD‘s incredible career? #TwainPrize (📸 Christopher Anderson) pic.twitter.com/HH84Vrdxt5
— The Kennedy Center (@kencen) May 23, 2018
Louis-Dreyfus has won six straight Emmy Awards for lead on-screen character in a comic drama for her part as Selina Meyer in HBO’s Veep. Beforehand, she won a main on-screen character Emmy in 2006 for playing a separated from mother on CBS’ The New Adventures Old Christine and a supporting-performer trophy in 1996 for her keep running as Elaine Benes on NBC’s Seinfeld.
In September 2017, only a couple of days expelled from her most recent Emmy wins, Louis-Dreyfus uncovered that she has bosom disease.
“One in eight women get breast cancer,” she wrote in a tweet at the time. “Today, I’m the one.” She announced in January that she finished her final chemotherapy treatment, spurred on by her sons lip-syncing to Michael Jackson’sBeat It.