Julia Louis-Dreyfus Lands First Starring TV Role 7 Years After “Veep”
Julia Louis-Dreyfus Lands First Starring TV Role 7 Years After “Veep”
Brenton BlanchetFri, February 27, 2026 at 8:23 PM UTC
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus in 'Veep' in 2012Credit: Hbo/Kobal/Shutterstock -
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is making her next big TV role alongside Cecily Strong
PEOPLE can confirm that the 11-time Emmy winner is expected to star alongside Strong in a new limited series produced by Apple Studios
The series would mark her first starring performance in a series since HBO's Veep
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is plotting her next major TV role.
The 11-time Emmy winner, 65, is expected to star alongside Saturday Night Live alum Cecily Strong in a new limited series produced by Apple Studios, PEOPLE can confirm.
The project, which Apple TV is nearing a greenlight for, is based on the October 2025 New York Magazine article “The Nanny Squatter” by Bindu Bansinath and comes from writer and director Mary Bronstein. Variety was the first outlet to share the news.
Louis-Dreyfus' forthcoming project is set to mark her first starring performance in a series since HBO's Veep wrapped its seven-season run in May 2019.
The limited series will center on a "couple whose lives are upended after welcoming a seemingly ideal caregiver into their home, only to find boundaries blurred and control slipping as the arrangement spirals into a tense, unsettling power struggle," per a log line.
Both Strong, 42, and Louis-Dreyfus are set to executive produce, alongside Bronstein and Scoop Wasserstein (for New York Magazine).
Julia Louis-Dreyfus; Cecily StrongCredit: Tim P. Whitby/Getty; Bruce Glikas/Getty
In an Instagram post on Thursday, Feb. 26, Strong shared the news and wrote that her "brain is exploding."
"We exchanged numbers so then I was able to text her about a fun article I read and our shared fangirling of Julia Louis-Dreyfus," she continued. "And now we are back with my friends at Apple and I know it’s still early days (as we Love Islanders say) but how often do I ever have something like this to talk about with icons like this next to me?!? I’m talking bout it!"
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She added, "I’m celebrating even getting to this stage! Time cast a spell on you etc etc etc it’s very important you take a general with a super cool writer director and don’t be afraid to order an aggressive cocktail."
Dreyfus also shared the news on her Instagram Stories, writing that she was "psyched" for the series.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus attends the cademy Women's Luncheon on Nov. 4, 2025 in Los Angeles, Calif.Credit: Jon Kopaloff/WireImage
The news comes seven years after Louis-Dreyfus's last major TV role as President Selina Meyer in Veep, the HBO political satire which aired from 2012 through 2019. She's taken on plenty of high-profile film roles in the years since, including appearances in 2022's Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Netflix's You People in 2023 and Marvel's Thunderbolts* in 2025.
Louis-Dreyfus' other TV work includes her performances on Seinfeld (1989-1998) and The New Adventures of Old Christine (2006-2010).
At the premiere of Veep's final season in 2019, Louis-Dreyfus admitted she "wept like a baby" and was "hysterical" during her last day of filming, before telling PEOPLE she'd most miss her fellow castmates and flawed character while leaving the series behind.
“What I’m gonna miss most is being with all these wonderful people, whom I adore more than I can possibly articulate,” she said. “But I am going to miss playing a hyper-dysfunctional, narcissistic, undeveloped, ruthless human being."
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As for Strong, she ended her decade-long run on SNL in 2022, while appearing in the Apple TV comedy Schmigadoon! from 2021 through 2023. She has also voiced a few notable characters in animated films, including 2024's The Garfield Movie and Zootopia 2 in 2025.
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