Selina Meyer
The vain, ambitious Vice President, and later President, at the centre of Veep.
Selina Meyer is the main character of Veep, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus in all seven seasons the show ran on HBO, from 2012 to 2019. Born Selina Catherine Eaton, she is a former senator from Maryland who becomes Vice President after losing her own run for president.
The role won Louis-Dreyfus a record six Primetime Emmys in a row for lead actress in a comedy.
Quick Facts
- Played by
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus
- Born
- Selina Catherine Eaton
- Education
- Smith College, Yale Law School
- Seasons
- 1-7 (2012-2019)
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Background
Her background: she grew up adoring her father and resenting her mother, studied at Smith College and Yale Law School, and married Andrew Meyer, a shady property developer, with whom she has a daughter, Catherine; she later divorces him over his affairs. Her party is never named.
Seasons 1-3: after losing the primaries to Stuart Hughes she becomes his running mate, and as Vice President she is ignored and handed trivial causes. In season 3 she plans to challenge him, until Hughes suddenly resigns and she becomes President.
Seasons 4-5: she runs for a full term against Senator Bill O'Brien. The election ends in an Electoral College tie, the House cannot pick a winner, and the Senate's choice for vice president, Laura Montez, becomes President, leaving Selina out of office.
Seasons 6-7: she writes her memoir, runs a charity and hunts for a site for her library, then runs again in 2019. In the finale she wins her party's nomination by making Jonah Ryan her running mate and finally wins the presidency.
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