Grace Gummer, Meryl Streep's Daughter, To Play Sex Addict

The NY Post reports:

MERYL Streep's daughter, Grace Gummer, is launching her acting career here with an erotically charged bang. The blonde, 22, stars in Neil Blackadder's over-the-top drama "The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents," opening Nov. 11 at the Wild Project in the East Village. She plays Dora, who, after 10 years on tranquilizers, develops an insatiable sexual appetite which results in an unwanted pregnancy and a grisly abortion. Grace's older sister, Mamie, recently wowed Broadway in "Les Liaisons Dangereuses."

Here are photos of Grace with her mom at the 2007 Oscars and the 2006 premiere of "A Prairie Home Companion."

Comments

[rzan1]

Two nice-looking women wearing hideously ugly dresses.

[HurryUp1212009]

THE FAMILY RESEMBLANCE IS INCREDIBLE.

[dac253]

Holy canoli, those two are somethin else. B-e-a-utiful.

[marymansour]

If she's half as good an actress as her mom, Meryl, she will be chewing the scenery. I wish her luck.

[Puller58]

Not too hopeful about her kids getting as far as she has. Anyone hear anything about kids of Jack Lemmon, Robert Mitchum, Steve McQueen or anyone?

[milo_h_minderbinder]

Alan and Adam Arkin? Ivan and Jason Reitman? James and Josh Brolin? Carl and Rob Reiner? Gary and Jake Bussey?

Sure, it can go either way (and Streep has some big shoes to fill), but it's not like there are no examples of celeb kids doing well.

[jsomerville5]

Michael Douglas, etc.

What I find more interesting are the children of actors who don't go into acting. Shelley Winters' daughter Vittoria, for example, is a Harvard grad and a medical doctor.

[milo_h_minderbinder]

Martin and Charlie Sheen, Judy Garland and Liza Minelli, Tippi Hedren and Melanie Griffith, Blythe Danner and Gwennyth Palrow, Anne Meara, Jerry Stiller and Ben Stiller...

[mamacat]

Best wishes to her. If she is 1/100th as talented as her mother, she will have a long and rewarding career.

[sustainable]

What is wrong with her mothers looks?

[starboymikey]

Grace is the spitting image of her mother. If she's anywhere near as a great an acttress, Hollywood will be twice blessed.

[mediamarv]

She hates her teeth.

[VoteforPedro]

Poor dear has her mother's looks.

[redsongia]

I think she's striking.

[TakLoufer]

I believe the word is 'vixen'. The main photo of her in the black dress and the one of her behind her mom ... that look on her face says "come hither -- I dare ya, pal!"

[protagonia]

Pedro

You don't want the record to show this one.

Come on now, gather yourself and your wits.

She is beautiful.

[Df7702]

youre crazy have you seen Deer Hunter she was hot as hell in her youth she was stunning.

[Yovovi]

Meryl Streep is a natural beauty as are her daughters. In fact she is stunning and classically beautiful. Maybe you prefer nosejobs like Ashley Simpson's or eyebrow lifts like Stacey Ferguson - and we know what huge natural talented beauties they are!

[starboymikey]

Poor dear has her mother's looks.
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If she can act like her mom she'll be a goddess.

[anastasiabeaverhousen]

Grace Gummer? Are you kidding me? The time-honored tradition of changing names is dead?

I can't imagine a world with Archibald Leach (AKA Cary Grant).

Come on.

[happycat]

I love all those old Hollywood names also.

[enilorac]

COOL
like how they are dressed and with the daughter in Prada
bet they have bought into the Obama Biden winning brand too
would love to see la Meryl play Sarah Palin
she can play anyone and she would get the look with black hair and all the charm and not any intellect
thing is...... Meryl is is probably too old now for the part
where did the time go

[rcpmac]

That dress fits like it's off the rack from Target.

[happycat]

Grace has a very interesting look like her moms. I hope that she turns out to be as talented.

[Owlygirl]

I love Meryl to bits, but I am not itching to see her daughters follow in her footsteps. I guess the nepotism bothers me. How hard is is when your mother can open any door? Part of the actor's job is the struggle and I respect actors who know from struggle. Of course maybe once I see them in a role that blows me away I'll end up a real fan! Lol!

[Agentlady007]

Meryl closed doors like Joan Crawford like May West like Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe, Shirley MacLaine. They signed stars to contracts. She was the last kind of that era. ---- in her time.

[barrycourage]

I think it is amazing that Streep has had great success in managing to maintain her personal privacy over all these years. Even with her enormous celebrity, she has minimized exposure of her marriage and kids to the limelight.

No surprise that Mamie and Grace have absorbed their mother's, and developed their own, passion for theater. Mamie has already won a Theatre World Award, for "Mr. Marmalade," which is given annually by Theatre World magazine to six young actors and six young actresses for their debut performances. (Past recipients include Julie Harris, Marlon Brando, Barbara Bel Geddes, James Earl Jones, Blythe Danner, Dustin Hoffman, Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Holliday, Sandra Oh, and Liam Neeson).

I look forward to seeing the day when Mamie and Grace are known for their work and their mother is a footnote in their careers.