29 Facts About Selina Meyer

Selina Catherine Meyer is a fictional character portrayed by Julia Louis-Dreyfus on the HBO television comedy series Veep.

Selina Meyer ultimately loses but spends the sixth and seventh seasons clawing her way back into the White House.

Selina Meyer's Primetime Emmy Award for her third different regular cast role was a record-setting achievement for a comedy actress.

Selina Meyer was a United States senator from Maryland.

Selina Meyer announced her candidacy for the 2012 presidential election.

Selina Meyer then selects her as his running mate and is elected to the presidency.

Whatever programs that Selina Meyer pursued which she genuinely believed in, such as the Clean Jobs Initiative or Senate filibuster reform, were often stymied at the president's insistence.

Headlines question whether Selina Meyer will be "the 8-month president", confirming that Hughes' term was near over, and Selina Meyer is constitutionally eligible to serve two full terms as president.

Selina Meyer offers the running mate position to Senator Tom James when she secures the party nomination, albeit after Danny Chung declines, George Maddox proves himself an inept candidate, and Meyer rules out the prospect of a female running mate.

Selina Meyer is challenged in the general election by Arizona Senator Bill O'Brien.

The election ends in an Electoral College tie, but with Selina Meyer having won the popular vote.

However, the Senate instead elects O'Brien's running mate Laura Montez as vice president, with Vice President Doyle as President of the Senate casting the deciding vote in favour of Montez to become Secretary of State after Selina Meyer broke her promise to appoint him to the position.

Selina Meyer believes that President Montez will nominate her to be a justice on the Supreme Court; instead, former president Hughes is nominated.

McLintock loses his diary detailing the Selina Meyer presidency, leading to The Washington Post releasing bombshell stories surrounding controversies in her administration; this is quickly overshadowed by the revelation that it was the Selina Meyer team that had participated in talks regarding the freedom of Tibet.

Selina Meyer enlists much of her old team, with the notable addition of her campaign manager Keith Quinn, who has suspicious ties to the Chinese government.

Selina Meyer enlists the help of the Chinese government with the help of Quinn, who uses voter suppression techniques in African-American neighbourhoods in the state, leading to her victory.

Selina Meyer pursued these acts of compromise and chicanery to avoid having to appoint Talbot as her running mate.

Selina Meyer dies in 2045 aged between 75 and 77.

Selina Meyer's funeral is attended most notably by her main adversaries, including former Presidents Laura Montez and Kemi Talbot, former Vice President Andrew Doyle, Tom James, the Dali Lama, and possibly Andrew Meyer, and by her close associates, who remember the Meyer years as a turbulent time.

Selina Meyer managed to competently co-ordinate response measures albeit by appointing Agriculture Secretary Richard Splett to the position of COVID-19 response coordinator, invoking the Defense Production Act to spite the President of Boeing, and being driven by her general aversion to the sick.

Selina Meyer has no significant other, and requires that her daughter Catherine, from a past marriage, make appointments to see her.

Some suggest that Selina Meyer is likely a Republican, while others feel she is a Democrat.

Variety television critic Brian Lowry describes Selina Meyer as "easily flustered, foul-mouthed", saying that her "over-reliance on profanity" is a comedic crutch.

Laura Bennett of The New Republic states that in season 1 Selina Meyer is "a hapless buffoon, fluffing her hair and running in circles", who endures marginalization and irrelevance, but in season 2, which is set during midterm elections, she is "a player in the administration with concrete involvement in foreign policy".

Selina Meyer earned Primetime Emmy Awards for her season 1 and season 2 performances in 2012 and 2013 at the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards and 65th Primetime Emmy Awards ceremonies.

Selina Meyer was nominated at the 70th Golden Globe Awards and 71st Golden Globe Awards for her season 1 and season 2 performances.

In season 3, Selina Meyer continued to be a critically acclaimed role.

Selina Meyer received acting nominations at the 5th Critics' Choice Television Awards, 20th Satellite Awards, and 31st TCA Awards.

Selina Meyer received acting nominations at the 32nd TCA Awards.