Meryl Streep and Don Gummer are parents to four children: One son and three daughters.
“He’ll go into his studio and write music all day.”
The Gummer kids grew up away from the limelight and were protected from the media.
Raising children is no easy task, and Streep has been open and honest about the difficulties of motherhood.
When asked whether acting or motherhood was more challenging, the “Mamma Mia!”
actor toldThe Washington Postin a 1998 interview, “Mothering.
She explained that children “don’t even say, ‘Thank you.’
They don’t even scrub the table unless you say, ‘Excuuuse me.’
Real life, there’s no comparison to acting.”
Without further ado, meet Meryl Streep and Don Gummer’s adult children.
“I really admired the way he protected his family.
It’s something I consciously emulated.”
In an interview with Working Mother (viaWomen Working), she further discussed balancing motherhood with her work.
In an interview withVanity Fair, Roberts recalled a conversation with Gummer about having a famous mom.
“I asked, ‘How old were you when you realized your mom was Meryl Streep?’
She said, ‘I think I was probably 9 when I put that all together.’
I said, ‘Were you cool with it?’
She said, ‘Yeah, it was fine.
There was no trauma.'”
Henry Wolfe Gummer is a musician
Henry Wolfe Gummeris Meryl Steep and Don Gummer’s eldest child.
He was born on November 13, 1979.
His talents were apparent early on, as Streep recalled in an interview withMomin 2016.
I said we have to get him music lessons,” she said.
However, Streep later realized how valuable perseverance is.
“Now, cut to age 35, and he is a musician.
Self-taught and late in life, he came to it.
“Sometimes you have to make them do things they don’t want to do.”
Though Henry dabbled in acting, he ultimately chose music, which has brought him more joy.
“For me, music was more stimulating from day to day.
Still, he loves the performative aspect of being a musician.
“Playing music with other people in front of an audience is just fun,” he toldHuffPostin 2016.
“Sometimes I worry that my story isn’t good enough.
Like her mother, she was also bitten by the acting bug.
But following in her mom’s footsteps has had its challenges.
In a 2008 interview withNew York Magazine, Mamie called it “a blessing and a curse.
It gets you in the door, but it doesn’t get you the role.”
Mamie made a similar statement in an interview withVoguein 2016.
And though they didn’t share any scenes, it wasn’t something Streep was sad about.
As she told Good Housekeeping in 2008, “Maybe that was for the best.”
As adults, they appeared together in the 2015 film, “Ricki and The Flash.”
And Streep is incredibly supportive of Mamie and believes she has talent.
‘She’s brave and fearless and funny and free.
“It doesn’t have any cover-up she’s the real deal.
Their son was born in February 2019.
And it’s always been this way, even in her childhood home.
“[Home] was a really guarded and sort of sacred place.”
Mamie does not post publicly about her son, and very little information is known about him.
But his birth was also significant for her momMeryl Streepbecause it marked her transition into a grandmother.
I specialize in unsolicited advice.”
Streep and Don Gummer now have several grandchildren.
She was born on May 9, 1986.
“They made their own way.
Grace studied art history and Italian, for example.
She added, “I never had to deal with that when I was their age.”
Grace attended Vassar, the same school as her mom, and graduated in 2008.
Streep graduated back in 1971.
“Life was simpler at Vassar.
The couple married in September 2021, and Ronson posted a picture of their wedding day onInstagram.
“And I’m sure it took me 45 years to become the man worthy of your love.
I hope I spend every one of these birthdays by your side til my last day.
Forever and ever yours.
(and yes, we got married).”
Ronson has made no secret of his affection for his wife.
In August 2022, celebrating their anniversary, he once again posted pictures of himself and Grace onInstagram.
Or maybe I just married the most incredible human being around.”
In 2023, the couple celebrated the birth of their first child, a girl.
“[Gummer] just had the baby.
She’s two and a half months now,” Ronson’s sister Annabelle Dexter-Jones toldPeople.
“She’s stunning.”
She appears in 10 episodes as the character Claire Logan, a character that she was surprisingly drawn to.
“The horror genre isn’t really my thing,” she toldWWD.
“But when I read it, I was like, ‘Oh, this is something completely different.
She explained, “It feels like it’s much more sort of accessible and relatable.”
“It can definitely stay with you in little ways throughout the day when you don’t realize.”
“I just tend to be this way.”
Louisa Jacobson landed a breakthrough role
Louisa Jacobsonis the fourth child of Meryl Streep and Don Gummer.
She was born on June 12, 1991.
In it, she plays one of the lead roles as Marian Brooke.
“Things have changed so much.”
Like her older sister and mother, Jacobson is also a graduate of Vassar.
She later attended the Yale School of Drama for three years.
Jacobson toldTatlerin 2022 that she “did theatre from a very young age.”
She also reflected on her acting journey in an interview with “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”
She also explained that facing comparisons with her mom could make her second guess herself.
“It’s going to be a constant thing throughout my life,” Jacobson told Tatler.
“It has been since I can remember this issue of ‘Do I deserve what I have?'”
The key to moving forward?
Kristjan Thor directed the play by Anton Chekhov, and it was one of the festival’s main events.
And who better to cast than real-life sisters?
Louisa was excited about the event and informed fans of the project viaInstagramin August 2023.
Her caption also made it clear that she cherished the experience.
“[I] wouldn’t have wanted it any other way.
I love them so much,” she wrote.
