Northwestern basketball player Charlie Hall is not your run-of-the-mill freshman walk-on. The 6’5″ guard is the son of Julia Louis-Dreyfus (estimated net worth $200 million according to Google) and grand-son of Gerard Louis Dreyfus (estimated net worth $3.4 billion according to Forbes).
Charlie Hall is the great-great-great grandson of Leopold Louis-Dreyfus, founder of the Dutch global conglomerate Louis Dreyfus Group (estimated 2013 revenue $640 billion, 22,000 employees worldwide).
You obviously know his mother, Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine from Seinfeld, or maybe as the main character on the HBO series Veep, or if you’re older, maybe as a Saturday Night Live regular. Hall’s father Brad is a well accomplished comedy writer who also anchored the news on SNL in the early ’80s.
Both of Charlie Hall’s parents have guested on Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Welcome to new @NUMensBball walk-on Charlie Hall. Yada, yada, yada…you might know his mother. https://t.co/S6qLrNTEpr pic.twitter.com/ks0XE8hmdp
— Nick Brilowski (@NickBrilowski) September 30, 2015
Check out Hall’s biography page from Northwestern’s basketball page:
Born Charles Thompson Hall … Son of Brad Hall and Julia Louis-Dreyfus … Parents are both actors and Northwestern alums … Mother is a seven-time Emmy Award winner who has starred in television shows such as Seinfeld, The New Adventures of Old Christine and Veep … Attended same high school as former NBA players Baron Davis and Austin Croshere and actors Jack Black, Jonah Hill, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Hudson and Zooey Deschanel.
That’s quite some high school there…to produce all those celebrities. My high school produced….uhh……hmmmm…….oh, I know Marty Casey, T.J. McFarland, Joe Ganz, a former member of the Luvabulls and uhhhhmmmm……..*crickets chirping.*
Yeah, Crossroads School in Los Angeles, California has a much more impressive resume.
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