The ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Cast—Where Are the Comedian Stars Now?

Julianne MacNeill

August 13, 2024 at 9:06 PM·4 min read

If you love that feeling of laughing so hard your stomach starts to hurt, Curb Your Enthusiasm might be just the show for you. Created by Seinfeld’s Larry David, the improv series was designed to make you laugh at any given moment and that is all thanks to the stellar cast.

The Primetime Emmy-winning series began in 2000, taking a years-long hiatus after season 8 and continuing sporadically after 2017. In it, Larry David stars as an over-the-top version of himself, improvising with hilarious comedy and going through his day-to-day life, which often includes some sort of catastrophic event.

Read on to learn more about David and the rest of the Curb Your Enthusiasm cast.

Larry David

Character Played: Larry David (Himself)

Born: July 2, 1947, in Brooklyn, New York

Best Known For: Co-creator of Seinfeld (1989-1998), The Three Stooges (2012) and Saturday Night Live (1984-2020).

Thoughts on Curb Your Enthusiasm: “We have our fans, and they don’t want us to be politically correct or take into account a lot of things that are going on, and they don’t care about wokeness. They just want to laugh, and they’re not going to be offended by it, and we don’t care either.”

Cheryl Hines

Character Played: Cheryl David

Born: September 21, 1965, in Miami Beach, Florida

Best Known For: RV (2006), Waitress (2007) and The Ugly Truth (2009)

Thoughts on Curb Your Enthusiasm: “He [Larry] really wanted to cast an unknown actress, which was great for me. There was no script. Nobody told me anything about anything. They just said, ‘Go meet Larry and he’ll tell you what to do when you get in there.’”

Jeff Garlin

Character Played: Jeff Greene

Born: June 5, 1962, in Chicago, Illinois

Best Known For: TV shows, including The Goldbergs (2013-2022), and movies like WALL-E (2008), The Bounty Hunter (2010) and Safety Not Guaranteed (2012). He is also the show’s executive producer.

Thoughts on Curb Your Enthusiasm: “I'm not sentimental about it, but last day of filming, last scene ever of the show, and [director] Jeff Schaffer comes out and he says that's a wrap on the greatest sitcom of all-time ... and I began bawling… I'm all a mess and I'm walking back to my trailer, and I see [Larry] coming back to just pat me on the back, saying, you know, 'I know, pal' ... now I'm getting sentimental on here!”

Susie Essman

Character Played: Susie Greene

Born: May 31, 1955, in Mount Vernon, New York

Best Known For: Volcano (1997), Bolt (2008) and Cop Out (2010)

Thoughts on Curb Your Enthusiasm: “You never know what’s going to happen in life. I was a comic, so I knew my life would be about making people laugh, but I never thought my life would end up that I would be famous and beloved for cursing at people.”

J.B. Smoove

Character Played: Leon

Born: December 16, 1965, in Plymouth, North Carolina

Best Known For: ‘Til Death (2008-2010), The Millers (2013-2015) and Good Times (2024).

Thoughts on Curb Your Enthusiasm: “Watching it made me miss everybody and all the pieces to it. It makes you think about the whole journey. All the seven seasons came back to me,” he explained. “You see everybody age. You see time elapsed. You see how it was from the very beginning. I remember everything like it was yesterday, from watching the show to the audition process to being on the show.”

Richard Lewis

Character Played: Richard Lewis

Born: June 29, 1947, in Brooklyn, New York

Died: February 27, 2024

Best Known For: TV series, including Anything But Love (1989-1992) and Daddy Dearest (1993). Also known for films, among them Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) and Leaving Las Vegas (1995).

Thoughts on Curb Your Enthusiasm: “Larry David has treated me like a god. All of you have. This is the greatest experience of my career, and I love each and every one of you. I'm honored to be working with arguably the greatest sitcom writer of the last two centuries. God bless all of you, and thanks for being so sweet to me.”