Mamie Gummer
Mamie Gummer
Mary Willa "Mamie" Gummer is an American actress. She starred in the title role of the CW series Emily Owens, M.D., and played the recurring role of Nancy Crozier on The Good Wife. She has also appeared in the films Evening, Side Effects, Cake, and Ricki and the Flash. She was nominated for the 2016 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play for the original production of Ugly Lies the Bone...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth3 August 1983
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I went through so many phases because I moved schools a lot. I grew up primarily in Connecticut, but also here in L.A. for five years.
A lot of the scripts I read and the characters I get are 'the girl' in romantic films, and I don't know how comfortable I am, or the world is, with me being that.
I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.
I was a theater major at Northwestern University and won a role in a play called 'Mr. Marmalade' after I graduated.
I like the Dodgers because my dad does - wait, no, not the Dodgers. Strike me down! The Yankees. I like the Yankees.
I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then I have a great road map.
I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
L.A. is... I always feel sort of abducted when I'm there, like I've stepped onto another planet where everyone looks the same.
I have roles in plays that I hope that I'll be able to do one day. I might be doing them at, like, the East Wilton Playhouse in wherever. But I think that Edie Falco... to get something even resembling her type of roles, that would be amazing.
My favorite charity is the Womens Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.
My first day on the set of 'John Adams', I was just supposed to fly to Virginia for a costume fitting. But the director figured, why not shoot it, too? So they threw me into a dress that didn't fit, gave me lines I hadn't seen, in a dialect I didn't know, and two screaming, arching infants.