Grace Gummer

Grace Gummer
Born	Grace Jane Gummer May 9, 1986 New York City, New York, U.S.
Alma mater	Vassar College (2008)
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2008–present
Parent(s)	Don Gummer Meryl Streep
Relatives	Henry Wolfe Gummer (brother) Mamie Gummer (sister) Louisa Gummer (sister)

Grace Jane Gummer (born May 9, 1986) 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 on the HBO series The Newsroom (2013–14), and the FX series American Horror Story: Freak Show (2014–15), and a regular role on the CBS series Extant (2014–15).

Early life

Gummer was born in New York City, New York.^[1] The daughter of actress Meryl Streep and sculptor Don Gummer, she grew up in Los Angeles and Connecticut with older brother Henry Wolfe Gummer, older sister Mamie Gummer and younger sister Louisa Gummer.

Gummer is of Swiss-German, German-English-Irish extraction through her mother actress Meryl Streep and of Norwegian-German ancestry through her father sculptor Don Gummer.

Career

Gummer (billed as Jane Grey) appeared with Streep in the 1993 film The House of the Spirits, as the younger version of her mother's character, Clara del Valle. After graduating from her mother's alma mater Vassar College with a degree in Art History and Italian, she made her stage debut in 2008 in Lukas Bärfuss's The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents.^[2][3] From 2010-11, she starred as Anna Moore on the TeenNick show Gigantic,^[4] which premiered October 8, 2010.

Gummer appeared in the 2010 film Meskada, in which she played the role of Nat Collins, before playing Abby in Bashert (2010) with Paulo Costanzo. She also had a small role as a student in Julia Roberts' class in Larry Crowne (2011), which was directed by Tom Hanks.^[5]

In the spring of 2011, she performed the role of Chloe Coverly in the revival of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York.

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

Gummer had a recurring role on the 2013 television series Zero Hour and joined the cast of the HBO series The Newsroom beginning in its second season, which premiered on July 14, 2013.

In 2014 and 2015, Gummer starred alongside Halle Berry on both seasons of the CBS show Extant.

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.^[6]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2010	Meskada	Nat Collins
2010	Bashert	Abby	Short film
2011	Larry Crowne	Natalie Calimeris
2012	Frances Ha	Rachel
2013	The Homesman	Arabella Sours
2015	Jenny's Wedding	Anne
2014	Learning to Drive	Tasha

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2010–2011	Gigantic	Anna Moore	18 episodes
2012–2013	Smash	Katie Rand	2 episodes
2013	Zero Hour	FBI Agent Paige Willis	6 episodes
2013-2014	Paloma	Paloma	5 episodes
2013–2014	The Newsroom	Hallie Shea	10 episodes
2013	American Horror Story: Coven	Millie	Episode: "The Axeman Cometh"
2014–2015	Extant	Julie Gelineau	26 episodes
2014–2015	American Horror Story: Freak Show	Penny	8 episodes
2015	Good Girls Revolt	Nora Ephron
2016	Mr. Robot	Dominique 'Dom' Dipierro
2016	Confirmation	Ricki Seidman

References

1. Hadden, B.; Luce, H.R. (1986). "Time". Time, Inc. ISSN 0040-781X. LCCN 25011669. 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.
2. "The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents". NYTheatre.com. Retrieved January 11, 2010.
3. Saltz, Rachel (November 14, 2008). "Sex Without the Shame, but Not Without the Consequences". The New York Times.
5. "Exclusive: Grace Gummer Confirms Her Role In Tom Hanks' Larry Crowne". CinemaBlend.com. April 27, 2010. Retrieved May 24, 2012.
6. Wagmeister, Elizabeth (January 29, 2016). "Grace Gummer Joins ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 2 as Series Regular". Variety. Retrieved January 29, 2016.

External links

• Grace Gummer at the Internet Movie Database