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Born Mary Willa Gummer on August 08 1983 to sculptor Don Gummer and actress Meryl Streep. She grew up in rural Connecticut with an older brother and two younger sisters. Through her mother’s profession, Mamie made her uncredited screen debut with 20 months of age as the baby of Meryl and Jack Nicholson in Mike Nichols’ “Heartburn”.

Mamie graduated from Northwestern University and also studied at the British Academy of Dramatic Arts. She subsequently made her stage debut in 2005, starring opposite Michael C. Hall in the Roundabout Theater Production of Noah Haidle’s “Mr. Marmalade”, directed by Michael Greif. In 2006, she starred with Kate Burton and Tony Goldwyn in Theresa Rebeck’s “The Water’s Edge”, directed by Will Frears at NYC’s Second Stage Theatre. For her work on stage, Mamie won a Theatre World Award in 2006 for “Mr. Marmalade” and received a nomination for the 2007 Lucille Lortel Award for “The Water’s Edge”.

The actress made her motion picture debut with a minor role in Lasse Hallström’s “The Hoax”, starring Richard Gere, Marcia Gay Harden and Hope Davis, and had her breakthrough role in the 2007 release “Evening”, directed by Lajos Koltai and co-starring Claire Danes, Toni Collette, the late Natasha Richardson, Glenn Close and Meryl Streep. Mamie was next seen in Kimberly Peirce’s “Stop Loss” and on tv in HBO’s epic mini-series “John Adams”, starring Paul Giamatti & Laura Linney. Alongside Linney, Mamie made her Broadway debut with an acclaimed performance in a revival of “Les Liaisons Dangereuses”. In 2009, she won rave reviews for performance as Sonya in the Classic Stage Company’s production of “Uncle Vanya”, co-starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard and Dennis O’Hare, winning her a second Lucille Lortel Award nomination. Mamie completed Jodie Markell’s ensemble drama “The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond”, based on the novel by Tennessee Williams as well as Ang Lee’s “Taking Woodstock” in 2009 and will be next seen in John Carpenter’s return to the horror genre, “The Ward”.