Meryl Streep’s daughter Louisa Jacobson Gummer has come out as a lesbian.
The 33-year-old actress daughter of Streep, 75, and her estranged husband Don Gummer posted snaps with producer partner Anna Blundell as she wrote:
‘blessed to be entering the Joyful New Era bb’ followed by heart and rainbow flag emojis.
The photos were posted during Streep’s 75th birthday weekend on June 22 – with one follower revealing: ‘Coming out at your mom’s birthday is so iconic!’
Louisa graduated from the Yale School of Drama with an MFA in acting. She is known for starring in the HBO period drama series The Gilded Age as Marian Brook.
Oscar-winner Ariana De Bose posted ‘live queen’ as other fans rushed to the comments to congratulate Louisa.
In 2022 Louisa was dating actor Jonathan Higginbotham who she met at the Yale School of Drama.
She told Vanity Fair of dating another actor: ‘It’s great in a way. We share this strange career together and can complain about the same things. He knows so deeply what it is that I do.’
‘It’s always a tricky thing to navigate the different stages of one’s career. The imbalances that might exist during one time will flip and go the other way at another time. You just have to go with the flow and be really supportive of one another.’
Streep and husband of 45 years, Gummer, announced their split in October as they revealed they’ve been separated ‘for more than six years’ after deciding to have ‘lives apart.’
In a statement shared to Page Six, a spokesperson expressed that The Devil Wears Prada actress, 74, and the sculptor, 76, ‘have been separated for more than 6 years, and while they will always care for each other, they have chosen lives apart.’
The pair initially tied the knot in 1978 and share four children: Henry, 43, Mamie, 40, Grace, 37, and Louisa.
According to the outlet, Streep – who attended the Princesa de Asturias Awards on Friday – was seen last seen together with Gummer while attending the 2018 Oscars ceremony.
The former couple were first introduced through Meryl’s brother in 1978, and said ‘I do’ later that same year in September during a romantic ceremony in the garden of her parents house.
The nuptials took place six months after her late boyfriend and fellow actor, John Cazale, passed away in March 1978 following a diagnosis of lung cancer.
One year after his death, the Mamma Mia! star reflected on the loss, and told People at the time, ‘The death is still very much with me. It has forced me to confront my own mortality, and once you do that, you look at things differently.’
Following his death, the actress needed to move out of the apartment she had shared with Cazale, and received help from her brother and one of his friends – who happened to be Gummer.
Meryl and Don became close and he let Meryl sublet his apartment in New York City when he was not in the Big Apple. The pair began to exchange letters, and a friendship soon turned into something more serious.
During the course of their marriage, Meryl and Gummer – who has his MFA from Yale University – welcomed four children, and also have five grandchildren.
Back in 2002, the star opened up about her relationship with the artist, and informed Vogue that the secret to their long-lasting marriage was, ‘goodwill and willingness to bend – and to shut up every once in a while.’
She further explained, ‘There’s no road map on how to raise a family: It’s always an enormous negotiation.’
‘But I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can’t imagine eschewing one for the other.’
Professionally Louisa uses the surname of Jacobson, which is her middle name, as there already is an actress named Louisa Gummer.
The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) requires that ‘no member use a professional name which is the same as, or resembles so closely as to tend to be confused with the name of any other member.’
She made her professional acting debut as Mary Dalton in Yale Repertory Theatre’s production of Nambi E. Kelley’s Native Son which was directed by Seret Scott in 2017.
Louisa went on to have other stage roles including starring as Juliet in The Old Globe’s production of Romeo And Juliet in 2019.
In 2022, she made her television debut in the aforementioned period drama series The Gilded Age created and written by Julian Fellowes.
With the role she was nominated alongside her castmates for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2023 which was ultimately won by fellow HBO series Succession.
Things certainly are coming up for the rising star as she will also be making her big screen debut in a supporting role for Celine Song’s A24 romantic comedy Materialists.
The feature has been filming in New York City over the past few months and also stars big names including Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal, and Chris Evans.
Meanwhile Louisa’s partner has produced several high fashion campaigns for Tory Burch, Chloe, and most recently Anne Hathaway for Versace.
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Source: New York Post
