Meet Meryl Streep's 30-year-old daughter, who's the next rising star of TV
You know her mom, but Gummer's dad is also famous. He's noted sculptor Don Gummer. "My dad's great. He's an amazing artist... He's wonderful and supportive. I love going to museums with him — we talk about... everything," Gummer said of her father.
Born in New York City in 1986, Grace Gummer is the second youngest of her siblings. Here she is with her older sister, actress Mamie Gummer (on her left), and younger sister, model Louisa Gummer (on the right).
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Gummer's older brother is musician Henry Gummer. Here he is pictured between his sisters.
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Gummer actually made her onscreen debut before she was born. Meryl Streep was pregnant with her while shooting 1986's "Heartburn" opposite Jack Nicholson and Jeff Daniels. Almost three decades later, Gummer would also costar with Daniels on HBO's "The Newsroom."
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Gummer's official film debut was in 1993's "The House of the Spirits," in which she played a younger version of her mother Meryl Streep's character.
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Acting wasn't always Gummer's sole ambition. During high school, she was captain of her swim team. "I wanted to be an Olympic swimmer when I was growing up," she has said of the time.
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In 2008, Gummer graduated from her mother's alma mater, Vassar College, with a degree in art history and Italian. She was still not certain that acting would be her calling.
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After college, she interned for designer Zac Posen and did costume design in Rome. "I still had all these passions that I wanted to explore,” she said. The acting bug bit when she was asked to design the costumes for an Off-Broadway play, "The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents." Instead, she wanted to be in it. She earned good reviews for the 2008 performance.
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In her first TV role, Gummer starred as the main character, Anna Moore, on the TeenNick comedy "Gigantic." The role wasn't too much of a stretch, because her character's parents were big Hollywood stars.
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Showing her serious acting chops, Gummer won a Theatre World Award for her Broadway debut in the 2011 revival of "Arcadia."
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Gummer's acting career really started heating up with a role in the indie movie "Frances Ha" as a ballet dancer, Rachel, in 2012.
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Gummer then appeared on several TV shows, such as NBC's "Smash" and ABC's "Zero Hour," before landing a role on the second season of HBO's "The Newsroom," as freelance journalist Hallie Shea, in 2013.
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Gummer took a kooky career turn when she starred as Penny aka Lizard Girl, whose father gave her a reptilian face tattoo, on FX's "American Horror Story: Freak Show" in 2014.
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Gummer also landed a role on the Halle Berry science-fiction drama "Extant" on CBS. She played Julie, one of the builders behind the show's androids, for two seasons from 2014 to 2015.
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For her current role on the second season of "Mr. Robot," Gummer had to learn how to shoot a gun. “I figured I’m going to have to shoot it at some point. Still, it’s not a natural movement my body would make," the actress said.
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