New York Magazine: Beyond her Control

Posted April 28, 2008 by Frederik

Article courtesy New York Magazine, on newsstands now: Meet Mamie Gummer. Her mother is Meryl Streep, but that’s not why you should know her. It’s possible that the first time you behold the luminous, lemon-haired Mamie Gummer will be on Broadway, in the Roundabout’s production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, where you will watch the dastardly Valmont ravish her, deaf to her convent-girl entreaties. Or maybe you will catch her in the Tribeca Film Festival, where she appears in the romantic short “All Saints Day”, as a mascara-bleared Tinkerbell, making the walk of shame the morning after Halloween. Perhaps you already saw her in Stop Loss, as the young wife of an Iraq-war vet; or in John Adams, on HBO, as the president’s long-suffering daughter-in-law, Sally. But chances are, whether or not you know it, you most likely encountered Gummer long before this prolific April, in the 1986 movie Heartburn, when she appeared as a 2-year-old on the hip of her actual mother, Meryl Streep, and on the lap of Jack Nicholson, who played her dad.

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First “Les Liaisons Dangereuses” production still

Posted April 28, 2008 by Frederik

Here comes a first picture of Mamie in “Les Laisons Dangereues”, pictured with co-star Ben Daniels. The play is currently in previews and opens on Broadway on May 1, 2008.

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New “Stop Loss” production stills

Posted April 25, 2008 by Frederik

Added a bunch new production stills of Mamie in “Stop Loss” to the Image Library, with many thanks to the great Riikka

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Mamie Gummer: Breaking Out on her Own

Posted April 25, 2008 by Frederik

Article courtesy The Star Ledger. “I look like an upside-down teacup in my costume,” says Mamie Gummer about the 1780s yellow satin frock she wears in “Les Liaisons Dangereuses,” playing a debutante seduced by the wicked Vicomte de Valmont. Maybe so, but between her elegant cheekbones, luminous skin and clear blue eyes, Gummer also looks a good deal like her mom, Meryl Streep. Gummer doesn’t mind questions about her celebrated progenitor. “I’m sort of resigned to it,” she explains with a deep heart-shaped smile just like You-Know-Who’s. Yes, Streep has been “really supportive” of her 24 year-old daughter’s career. No, Streep hasn’t been a pro-active stage mother. “There haven’t been any phone calls made for me,” Gummer declares. Currently in previews and opening May 1, Roundabout Theatre Company’s revival of “Les Liaisons Dangereuses” marks Gummer’s Broadway debut. But already she has enjoyed meaty roles in three off-Broadway plays – winning complimentary reviews as well as a Theatre World award – since graduating from Northwestern University in 2005. Between stage gigs, Gummer has appeared in several films like “Stop Loss” and “Evening” and the HBO series “John Adams” in which she portrays the President’s widowed daughter-in-law, Sally. “You can find me, like, oh, there I am over by the window sill,” she giggles about her marginal if sympathetic character.

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Lincoln Center Salutes Meryl Streep

Posted April 15, 2008 by Frederik

Yesterday, Meryl Streep was honored by the Lincoln Center Film Society with their prestigious award and Mamie was on hand to celebrate her mother. Other guest included Meryl’s colleagues Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Uma Thurman, Amy Adams, Garrison Keillor and directors Jonathan Demme and Mike Nichols. Pictures are in the Image Library.