Actress Mami Gummer: a talented daughter of a talented mother

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Mami Gummer is an American film, theater and television actress, for her work she was awarded the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Actress in the play "Water's Edge" and winner of the Theater World Award for Best Supporting Actress for the game in the black comedy play "Mr. Marmalade" (by Noah Heidl).

Celebrity biography

Mamie (full name Mary Willa Gummer) was born on August 3, 1983 in New York, in the family of Oscar-winning actress, idol of several generations and millions of hearts, Meryl Streep and sculptor Don Gummer, now known for a large number of massive metal street and museum installations in an abstract style. Her mother was pregnant with Mary when she played one of her best performances in Sophie's Choice, for which she later won an Oscar. Mamie Gummer has an older brother, musician Henry "Hank" Gummer, and two younger sisters: Louise Jacobson Gummer and also actress Grace Jane. Gummer. The celebrity, along with the rest of the children, grew up in Salisbury, a city in Lichfield County, Connecticut. Later spent five years in Los Angeles.

Gummer attended the private "Miss Porter School" preparatory school for girls and the private Kent School in Kent, Connecticut. She then graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in Theater and Communications. While studying, she took part in the productions of The Laramie Project, 12 Volt Heart and House of Blue Leaves.

Career start

Mami Gummer's film debut took place at the age of three in the comedy melodrama "Jealousy" directed by Mike Nichols. She played with her mother and Jack Nicholson in the lead roles. To avoid media hype, Mary was credited as Natalie Stern. Even then, the little actress received a positive review in the New York Times daily.

In 2005, the premiere of the play "Mr. Marmalade" took place on the stage of the Laura Pels Theater in New York, in which the future star played along with Michael S. Hall. This production brought Mamie worldwide theatrical popularity.

Movies with Mami Gummer

The following year, the actress starred in small episodes: in the drama The Hoax with Richard Gere and in the tragicomedy The Devil Wears Prada with a Starbucks barista. However, this scene was subsequently deleted and released along with the rest of the cut episodes only on DVD.

Mami Gummer, in the photo so similar to her famous mother, in 2007 played in the best-selling melodrama "Evening"writer Susan Mino, who also participated in the filming of this picture. Director Lajosi Koltay liked the role of the young heroine Meryl Streep so much that he invited Mary to the cast of the film All Saints Day.

In 2007, the actress returned to the stage and played Sophie Tuckerman in Lillian Hellman's play "Autumn Garden", and then took part in the production of "Desdemona: a play about a handkerchief", which took place on the stage of the theater "Dramaturgy Horizons". A year later, she appeared on television in the role of Sally Smith Adams from the HBO series John Adams about the political life of the President of the United States, played by actor Paul Giamatti. The film won a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award. This was followed by filming in the military drama "Stop Loss" and in the independent film directed by Jody Markell "The Missing Tear Diamond".

The next year saw the release of Storming Woodstock, a biographical drama about the most famous rock festival in 1969, where the actress played the role of Tisha, Lang's assistant. At the same time, Mami Gummer performed in the theater, playing Sonya from the play "Uncle Vanya", for which she was later nominated for the Lucille Lortel Award as "Outstanding Actress".

In the legal drama series The Good Wife, in the thirteenth episode of the first season, Mary played lawyer Nancy Kruger. Then this role was repeated in two more episodes of the second season.

In 2010, the horror film "Chamber" was released, where Mamie performed one of the main characters - Emily. Among the famous works of the actress and the image of Dr. Emily Owens in the series of the same name - after the release of 13 episodes it was closeddue to low ratings.

Mamie Gummer's personal life

With her ex-husband, actor Benjamin Walker, Mary met on the stage of the theater, playing in the Broadway production of "Dangerous Liaisons". After several months of relationship, in October 2009, Walker proposed to Gammer. Two years later, in the house of Mami's parents, they got married. The couple settled in Brooklyn, New York. But the marriage did not last long: in 2013 they announced a divorce.

In August 2018, Mary got engaged to producer and screenwriter Mehar Sethi, and on December 7 it became known that the young couple were expecting their first child.