Julia Louis-Dreyfus recalls sweet childhood encounter with Sidney Poitier
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- Julia Louis-DreyfusAmerican actress
- Neil ArmstrongAmerican astronaut
Poitier, the first Black man to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, died at the age of 94 on Thursday. On Saturday, Louis-Dreyfus took to Instagram to share a photo of the film icon, and in the accompanying caption shared a story about how she met him for the first time on the night Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon as part of the Apollo 11 spaceflight.