Mary Willa "Mamie" Gummer (born August 3, 1983) is an American
actress. She starred in the title role of The CW series Emily Owens,
M.D. (2012â€"2013), and played the recurring role of Nancy Crozier on
The Good Wife (2010â€"2015) and its spin-off, The Good Fight (2018).
She has also appeared in the films Evening (2007), Side Effects
(2013), Cake (2014), and Ricki and the Flash (2015). Gummer was
nominated for the 2016 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a
Play for the original production of Ugly Lies the Bone. She is a
daughter of Don Gummer and Meryl Streep.Gummer was born in New York
City, New York, and is the eldest daughter of actress Meryl Streep and
sculptor Don Gummer. She grew up in Salisbury, Connecticut, and also
spent five years in Los Angeles, California, with her older brother,
Henry Wolfe Gummer, and younger sisters, actress Grace Gummer and
model Louisa Gummer.Gummer attended Miss Porter's School, and
graduated from the Kent School in Kent, Connecticut, before continuing
her studies in theater and communications at Northwestern University,
graduating in 2005.As a toddler, she appeared with her mother in
Heartburn (credited under the name Natalie Stern to avoid press
scrutiny). Twenty months old at the time of filming, she received a
positive review in the New York Times. After graduating from college
in 2005, she made her off-Broadway debut alongside Michael C. Hall in
the premiere of Noah Haidle's Mr. Marmalade, for which she won a
Theatre World Award. In 2007, she received a Lucille Lortel Award
nomination for her performance in Theresa Rebeck's The Water's Edge.
actress. She starred in the title role of The CW series Emily Owens,
M.D. (2012â€"2013), and played the recurring role of Nancy Crozier on
The Good Wife (2010â€"2015) and its spin-off, The Good Fight (2018).
She has also appeared in the films Evening (2007), Side Effects
(2013), Cake (2014), and Ricki and the Flash (2015). Gummer was
nominated for the 2016 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a
Play for the original production of Ugly Lies the Bone. She is a
daughter of Don Gummer and Meryl Streep.Gummer was born in New York
City, New York, and is the eldest daughter of actress Meryl Streep and
sculptor Don Gummer. She grew up in Salisbury, Connecticut, and also
spent five years in Los Angeles, California, with her older brother,
Henry Wolfe Gummer, and younger sisters, actress Grace Gummer and
model Louisa Gummer.Gummer attended Miss Porter's School, and
graduated from the Kent School in Kent, Connecticut, before continuing
her studies in theater and communications at Northwestern University,
graduating in 2005.As a toddler, she appeared with her mother in
Heartburn (credited under the name Natalie Stern to avoid press
scrutiny). Twenty months old at the time of filming, she received a
positive review in the New York Times. After graduating from college
in 2005, she made her off-Broadway debut alongside Michael C. Hall in
the premiere of Noah Haidle's Mr. Marmalade, for which she won a
Theatre World Award. In 2007, she received a Lucille Lortel Award
nomination for her performance in Theresa Rebeck's The Water's Edge.
Share this
SUBSCRIBE OUR NEWSLETTER
SUBSCRIBE OUR NEWSLETTER
Join us for free and get valuable content delivered right through your inbox.