Mamie Gummer


Mary Willa "Mamie" Gummer is an American actress. She starred in the title role of The CW series Emily Owens, M.D., and played the recurring role of Nancy Crozier on The Good Wife and its spin-off, The Good Fight. She has also appeared in the films Evening, Side Effects, Cake, and Ricki and the Flash. She was nominated for the 2016 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play for the original production of Ugly Lies the Bone.

Early life and education

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.

Career

As a young child, she appeared with her mother in Heartburn. 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.
Gummer made her motion-picture debut as an adult with a minor role in Lasse Hallström's The Hoax, starring Richard Gere. In 2007, she starred with her mother in Michael Cunningham's film adaptation of Susan Minot's novel Evening, playing her mother as a young woman. The film, directed by Lajos Koltai, featured Vanessa Redgrave, Glenn Close, and Claire Danes.
She portrayed Sally Adams in the 2008 HBO mini series John Adams, which details the life of the second President of the United States. She made her Broadway debut in the Tony Award–nominated revival of Les liaisons dangereuses in 2008, for which she received critical praise. She also guest-starred on the CBS legal drama The Good Wife in the season 1 episode "Bad" portraying Nancy Crozier. Her character returned again on season 2 episodes "Cleaning House" and "Getting Off".
In 2010, she starred in The Lightkeepers with Richard Dreyfuss, Tom Wisdom, Blythe Danner and Bruce Dern.
Starting in 2011, she starred in the ABC medical show Off the Map with Zach Gilford and Valerie Cruz. The show was created by Jenna Bans and Shonda Rhimes. In April 2011, she starred with Hamish Linklater and Alison Fraser, in the Off-Broadway production of The School For Lies written by David Ives, directed by Walter Bobbie, and produced by Classic Stage Company.
In 2012, she starred in the CW's Emily Owens, M.D. The series was canceled early during its first season, but the network continued to air the rest of its 13-episode order.
Starting in 2015, she began a featured role in the WGN America series Manhattan.
From October to December 2015, she starred in the original production of the play Ugly Lies the Bone for the Roundabout Theater Company, and received a 2016 Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Play for her performance.
On February 1, 2016, it was announced that Gummer had joined the cast of the Amazon series The Collection as a series regular in the role of Helen Sabine.
Gummer played Lucy Purcell, a mother of two children who finds herself involved in a crime, in the third season of HBO’s anthology drama True Detective.

Personal life

After a year and a half of dating, Gummer became engaged to actor Benjamin Walker in October 2009. They married in July 2011 at her parents' home in Connecticut, and resided in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York City. In March 2013, it was announced that Gummer and Walker had amicably separated.
Gummer has been involved with charities such as Women's Refugee Commission and the Nomi Network.
She became engaged to writer Mehar Sethi in August 2018 and was revealed to be pregnant with her first child in December 2018. In February 2019, Gummer gave birth to a son.

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
2008John AdamsSally Smith Adams3 episodes
2010–15'Nancy Crozier8 episodes
2011Off the MapDr. Mina Minard13 episodes
2011'GemmaEpisode: "In Case of Exposure"
2012'Maxine Cooper3 episodes
2012–13Emily Owens, M.D.Emily Owens13 episodes
2014ElementaryMargaret BrayEpisode: "Terra Pericolosa"
2015ManhattanNora6 episodes
2016The CollectionHelen Sabine8 episodes
2018The Good FightNancy CrozierEpisode: "Day 429"
2018Robot ChickenCarly Episode: "No Wait, He Has a Cane"
2018Castle RockMatthew Deaver's MotherEpisode: "Henry Deaver"
2019True DetectiveLucy Purcell4 episodes
TBAGods & HeroesOriginal Netflix anime series; Post-production

YearTitleRoleNotes
2003'Northwestern University Theater
200412 Volt HeartNorthwestern University Theater
2004'Bananas ShaughnessyNorthwestern University Theater
2005–2006Mr. MarmaladeLucyLaura Pels Theatre, NYC
2006'EricaSecond Stage Theatre, NYC
2007Sophie TuckermanWilliamstown Theatre Festival
2007Desdemona: A Play about a HandkerchiefPlaywrights Horizons Mainstage Theatre
2008Les Liaisons DangereusesCécile VolangesAmerican Airlines Theatre
2008Hunting and GatheringBessPrimary Stages, NYC
2009Uncle VanyaSonya SerebryakovaClassic Stage Company, NYC
2015Ugly Lies the BoneJessRoundabout Theatre, NYC
Nominated - Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play
2017The SiegelAliceSouth Coast Repertory, LA
2018Our Very Own Carlin McCulloughCynGeffen Playhouse Theater, LA

Awards