Grace Gummer

{{Infobox person

| name = Grace Jane Ronson

| image =

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1986|05|9}}

| birth_name = Grace Jane Gummer

| birth_place = New York City, U.S.

| education = Vassar College (BA)

| occupation = Actress

| years_active = 2008–present

| spouse = {{Ubl

|{{Marriage|Tay Strathairn|2019|2020|end=div}}

|{{Marriage|Mark Ronson|2021}}

}}

| children = 2

| mother = Meryl Streep

| father = Don Gummer

| relatives = {{Ubl

|Henry Wolfe Gummer (brother)

|Mamie Gummer (sister)

|Louisa Jacobson (sister)

}}

Grace Jane Ronson ({{Nee}} Gummer, May 9, 1986){{cite news |last=Siskel |first=Gene |author-link=Gene Siskel |date=July 20, 1986 |title=Meryl Streep Not Looking for a Role as American Icon |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1986-07-20-8602220329-story.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200408175707/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1986-07-20-8602220329-story.html |archive-date=April 8, 2020 |access-date=April 8, 2020 |work=Chicago Tribune |quote=...the birth nine weeks ago [mid-May 1986] of her third child, Grace Jane. She also has a son, Henry, 6, and a daughter Mary Willa (nicknamed 'Mamie'), 2.}}{{cite web |title=Grace Gummer |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/grace-gummer-489560 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200408181154/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/grace-gummer-489560 |archive-date=April 8, 2020 |access-date=April 8, 2020 |publisher=Internet Broadway Database}} is an American actress. She received a Theatre World Award for her Broadway debut in the 2011 revival of Arcadia. Her television work includes recurring roles in The Newsroom and American Horror Story: Freak Show, and regular roles in Extant and Mr. Robot. She is the daughter of Meryl Streep and Don Gummer.

Early life

Gummer was born in New York City to actress Meryl Streep and sculptor Don Gummer.{{cite magazine |last1=Hadden, B. |last2=Luce, H.R. |year=1986 |title=Time |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-yknAQAAIAAJ&q=%22BORN.+To+Meryl+Streep,+36.+two-time+Oscar-winning+actress,+and+her+husband+Don+Gummer,+39,+sculptor:+their+third+child,+second+daughter%3B+in+New+York+City.%22 |magazine=Time |volume=127 |issn=0040-781X |lccn=25011669 |quote=BORN. To Meryl Streep, 36. two-time Oscar-winning actress, and her husband Don Gummer, 39, sculptor: their third child, second daughter; in New York City.}} She grew up in Los Angeles and Connecticut with her older siblings, musician Henry Wolfe Gummer and actress Mamie Gummer, and younger sister, model Louisa Jacobson.{{Cite web |last=Gummer |first=Grace |date=January 19, 2018 |title=Grace Gummer of 'Mr. Robot' Remembers Where She Was on 9/11 |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/grace-gummer-of-mr-robot-remembers-where-she-was-on-911/ |access-date=February 11, 2024 |website=Vice |language=en}} Grace attended Poly Prep for high school.{{cite web |title=The Accidental Actress |date=February 10, 2011 |url=https://nymag.com/arts/theater/profiles/71624/}}

Gummer attended Vassar College, her mother's alma mater, and received a degree in art history and Italian in 2008.{{cite web |title=That's Entertainment - Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly |url=https://vq.vassar.edu/issues/2014/01/beyond-vassar/thats-entertainment.html |access-date=November 11, 2019 |website=vq.vassar.edu}} At Vassar, she was involved in its collaborative theater group Woodshed Theater Ensemble and spent a year studying abroad in Bologna, Italy. During this period, Gummer worked as a docent at Dia:Beacon, as well as for costume designer Ann Roth and the Tirelli Costumi costume shop in Rome.{{cite news |last=La Ferla |first=Ruth |date=July 8, 2016 |title=Grace Gummer on 'Mr. Robot' and Being Meryl Streep's Daughter |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/fashion/grace-gummer-mr-robot-meryl-streep.html |access-date=November 11, 2019 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} She later interned for fashion designer Zac Posen's design department.

Career

=2008–2012=

Gummer made her screen acting debut (billed as Jane Grey) in the 1993 film The House of the Spirits, as the younger version of her mother's character, Clara del Valle. She had her next professional acting job after graduating college; in 2008, she starred Off-Off-Broadway in Lukas Bärfuss's The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents.{{Cite web |title=The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents |url=http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=sexu7602 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081016015554/http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=sexu7602 |archive-date=October 16, 2008 |access-date=January 11, 2010 |website=NYTheatre.com}}{{Cite news |last=Saltz |first=Rachel |date=November 14, 2008 |title=Sex Without the Shame, but Not Without the Consequences |url=http://theater.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/theater/reviews/14neur.html?partner=rss&emc=rss |work=The New York Times}} She originally was asked to help with the play's costume design but ended up auditioning and getting cast in its lead role.

From 2010 until 2011, she starred as Anna Moore on the TeenNick show Gigantic,{{Cite web |title=Archived copy |url=http://www.poptower.com/gigantic.htmon |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200226050810/http://www.poptower.com/gigantic.htmon |archive-date=February 26, 2020 |access-date=January 11, 2010}} which premiered on October 8, 2010. She said that she used the show "as a platform to be able to launch [herself] forward." Gummer appeared in the 2010 film Meskada, in which she played the role of Nat Collins, before playing Abby in 2010's Bashert with Paulo Costanzo. In December 2010, Gummer played the role of Hero in a Los Angeles production of Much Ado About Nothing, opposite Helen Hunt.{{Cite web |last=Gans |first=Andrew |date=October 22, 2010 |title=Helen Hunt to Star in Los Angeles Production of Much Ado About Nothing |url=http://www.playbill.com/article/helen-hunt-to-star-in-los-angeles-production-of-much-ado-about-nothing-com-172960 |access-date=November 11, 2019 |website=Playbill}} She also had a small role as a student in Julia Roberts' class in the 2010 film Larry Crowne, which was directed by Tom Hanks;{{Cite web |date=April 27, 2010 |title=Exclusive: Grace Gummer Confirms Her Role In Tom Hanks' Larry Crowne |url=http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Exclusive-Grace-Gummer-Confirms-Her-Role-In-Tom-Hanks-Larry-Crowne-18304.html |access-date=May 24, 2012 |publisher=CinemaBlend.com}} she shared many scenes in Larry Crowne with future Mr. Robot castmate Rami Malek.

In the spring of 2011, Gummer made her Broadway debut, performing the role of Chloë Coverly in the revival of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York. The following year, she acted in her second Broadway production, The Columnist, opposite John Lithgow.

Gummer appeared as Katie Rand on the NBC television series Smash on March 26, 2012, in the episode entitled "The Coup"; her character is a humanitarian attempting to bring peace to her divorcing parents, including her mother, played by Anjelica Huston.

=2013–present=

Beginning in 2013, Gummer began having more, and higher profile, roles on television, having been cast in a series of recurring and main parts. Gummer had a recurring role as FBI agent Paige Willis on the television series Zero Hour, which aired in the early Spring of 2013. During this time, she also joined the cast of the HBO series The Newsroom. Gummer appeared in ten episodes as journalist Hallie Shea, beginning with the second episode of Season 2 on July 21, 2013. Concurrently, she starred in the online miniseries Paloma for WIGS. She also had a supporting role in the 2013 Tommy Lee Jones film The Homesman. In November 2013, she made her first appearance in the American Horror Story franchise; the following year, she appeared in seven episodes as Penny in American Horror Story: Freak Show.

In 2014 and 2015, Gummer starred alongside Halle Berry on both seasons of the Steven Spielberg CBS show Extant. She was part of the main cast for both seasons of the show. She had a supporting role in 2014's Learning to Drive and the 2015 romantic comedy Jenny's Wedding. Following the cancellation of Extant, she had a small role in the 2016 HBO film Confirmation, which was concerned with the Anita Hill controversy, and had a recurring role portraying Nora Ephron in the Amazon series Good Girls Revolt; the show would premiere a year later in November 2016.

On January 29, 2016, it was announced that Gummer had joined the cast of the USA Network series Mr. Robot as a series regular in the role of FBI field agent Dominique "Dom" DiPierro.{{Cite web |last=Wagmeister |first=Elizabeth |date=January 29, 2016 |title=Grace Gummer Joins 'Mr. Robot' Season 2 as Series Regular |url=https://variety.com/2016/tv/news/mr-robot-grace-gummer-season-2-1201690218/ |access-date=January 29, 2016 |website=Variety}} She appeared in the final three seasons of the show, which premiered in July 2016, October 2017, and October 2019, respectively.

Between filming seasons of Mr. Robot, Gummer acted in the comedy The Long Dumb Road and the action-thriller Beast of Burden in which she co-starred opposite Daniel Radcliffe; both films premiered in 2018. She also had a small role in the Billy Crystal film Standing Up, Falling Down, which premiered in Spring 2019.

Gummer also returned to theater during this time. She had a supporting role in the off-Broadway play Mary Page Marlowe, which began previews in June 2018. In Fall 2018, she filmed The Hot Zone for National Geographic, in which she appears in four of the six episodes;{{Cite web |date=December 6, 2018 |title=Grace Gummer Joins Nat Geo's 'The Hot Zone' as Series Regular |url=https://www.thewrap.com/grace-gummer-nat-geos-the-hot-zone-series-regular/ |access-date=November 11, 2019 |website=TheWrap |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=November 22, 2018 |title=Filmed in Toronto and Ontario: Movies and TV Shows |url=http://www.whatsfilming.ca/wrapped-toronto-ontario/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181122025046/http://www.whatsfilming.ca/wrapped-toronto-ontario/ |archive-date=November 22, 2018 |access-date=November 11, 2019}} the show aired in Spring 2019. After filming the final season of Mr. Robot during the first half of 2019, Gummer joined the cast of The Public Theater's production of A Bright Room Called Day, which opened in November 2019.{{Cite web |title=A Bright Room Called Day |url=https://publictheater.org/productions/season/1920/bright-room/ |access-date=November 11, 2019 |website=publictheater.org |language=en-us}}

Personal life

Gummer speaks both English and Italian. She lives in Los Angeles.{{Cite web |title=Beyond the Screen with Grace Gummer {{!}} NBCUniversal Together |url=https://together.nbcuni.com/article/beyond-the-screen-with-grace-gummer/ |access-date=November 13, 2019 |website=together.nbcuni.com |language=en}}

On July 10, 2019, Gummer married musician Tay Strathairn, the son of actor David Strathairn.{{Cite magazine |last=Fernandez |first=Alexia |date=April 7, 2020 |title=Meryl Streep's Daughter Grace Gummer Files for Divorce from Musician Tay Strathairn |url=https://people.com/movies/meryl-streep-daughter-grace-gummer-files-for-divorce/ |access-date=April 8, 2020 |magazine=People}} The couple separated on August 21, 2019, after 42 days of marriage.{{Cite magazine |last=Macke |first=Johnni |date=April 7, 2020 |title=Meryl Streep's Daughter Grace Gummer Split From Husband Tay Strathairn After 42 Days of Marriage |url=https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/meryl-streeps-daughter-grace-gummer-split-from-husband-after-42-days/ |access-date=April 8, 2020 |magazine=Us Weekly}} Gummer filed for divorce on March 23, 2020, in Los Angeles, and the divorce was finalized in August 2020.{{Cite magazine |date=August 25, 2020 |title=Meryl Streep's Daughter Grace Gummer Finalizes Divorce After Brief Marriage |url=https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/meryl-streeps-daughter-grace-gummer-finalizes-divorce/ |access-date=November 29, 2020 |magazine=Us Weekly |language=en-US}}

On September 4, 2021, it was announced that Gummer married British-American musician and record producer Mark Ronson after one year of dating.{{Cite web |date=September 4, 2021 |title=Mark Ronson Celebrates Marrying Grace Gummer on His 46th Birthday: 'Forever and Ever Yours' |url=https://people.com/music/mark-ronson-marries-grace-gummer/ |accessdate=September 6, 2021 |website=People}} Their first child, a daughter, was born in December 2022.{{cite web |title=Mark Ronson and Grace Gummer Welcome Baby Girl, Producer's Sister Annabelle Dexter-Jones Confirms |url=https://people.com/parents/mark-ronson-grace-gummer-welcome-baby-girl-exclusive/ |website=people.com}}{{cite web |last=Martin |first=Annie |date=March 15, 2023 |title=Grace Gummer gives birth to daughter with Mark Ronson |url=https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2023/03/15/Grace-Gummer-birth-first-child-daughter-Mark-Ronson-Meryl-Streep/9761678889464/ |access-date=June 18, 2023 |website=UPI |archive-date=28 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328224003/https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2023/03/15/Grace-Gummer-birth-first-child-daughter-Mark-Ronson-Meryl-Streep/9761678889464/ |url-status=live }} On December 20, 2024, it was announced that Gummer and Ronson expecting their second child together.{{Cite web |date=December 20, 2024 |title=Grace Gummer pregnant, expecting second child with Mark Ronson |url=https://pagesix.com/2024/12/20/parents/grace-gummer-pregnant-expecting-second-child-with-mark-ronson/ |website=pagesix.com}} On February 21, 2025, Gummer and Ronson welcomed their second daughter.{{Cite web |date=February 21, 2025 |title=Mark Ronson and Grace Gummer welcome their second child |url=https://pagesix.com/2025/02/21/parents/mark-ronson-and-grace-gummer-welcome-their-sexond-child |website=pagesix.com}}