Y T T I W AND L L E W Julia Louis-Dreyfus faced breast cancer with her signature humor intact-and then got back to work BY JEANNIE NUSS O n Sept. 17, 2017, Julia LouisDreyfus won the Emmy Award for outstanding lead actress in a comedy series for her role in the HBO political comedy Veep. It was a big deal-marking her sixth consecutive Emmy for playing the sharp-tongued Selina Meyer and setting a record for the most wins by an actor for a single role. The next day, Louis-Dreyfus got more big news. She found out she had breast cancer. A week and a half later, she went public with her diagnosis: "1 in 8 women get breast cancer," Louis-Dreyfus wrote in a post shared on social media. "Today, I'm the one." FALL 2019 11