SOUTH AFRICA'S TV WEBSITE
SIGN IN SEARCH MENU
SOUTH AFRICA'S TV WEBSITE


Mamie Gummer

Full / Real Name: Mary Willa Gummer
Born: 03 August 1983 (41 years old)
Gender: Female

Rate:

7.0

Add to Actor Favourites

Bio

Mamie Gummer is an American actress best known for her role as Lila Wittenborn in the 2007 feature film Evening; and as Sally Smith Adams in the HBO mini-series John Adams, in 2008.

She also played the starring role of Mina - an ambitious infectious disease resident who's come to the jungle hoping to discover the next Ebola virus - in the medical drama series Off the Map, in 2010.

Gummer made her New York stage debut in 2005, starring opposite Michael C. Hall in the Roundabout Theatre production of Noah Haidle's Mr. Marmalade, directed by Michael Greif, which earned her a Theater World Award.

She also 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 which she received a Lucille Lortel nomination for Outstanding Featured Actress, and in a revival of The Autumn Garden by Lillian Hellman at the Williamstown Theater Festival.

In spring 2008, Gummer made her Broadway debut in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, opposite Laura Linney. In 2009 she starred opposite Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard in the Broadway production of Uncle Vanya.

In film, Gummer appeared on screen in Evening with an all star ensemble that included Claire Danes, Patrick Wilson, Meryl Streep and Vanessa Redgrave.

She was also featured in Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock; Lasse Hallström's The Hoax with Richard Gere and Hope Davis; in Kimberly Peirce's Stop Loss with Ryan Phillippe and Joseph Gordon-Levitt; and in Loss of a Teardrop Diamond with Bryce Dallace Howard.

Gummer can also be seen in The Lightkeepers, opposite Richard Dreyfus and Blythe Danner, in Jeff Lipsky's Twelve Thirty and in John Carpenter's The Ward, opposite Amber Heard.

On television Gummer appeared in the Emmy and Golden Globe-winning miniseries John Adams for HBO, with Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney.

She also had a starring role as Emily Owens, a first-year surgical intern at Denver Memorial Hospital who is ready to put her high school days behind her, in the medical drama television series Emily Owens, M.D., from 2012-2013.

A Native New Yorker, Gummer graduated from Northwestern University and also studied theatre at the British Academy of Dramatic Arts. She is the daughter of actress Meryl Streep and the older sister of actress Grace Gummer.


Television Roles


LATEST ARTICLES

New on TV today: Wednesday 16 July 2025

David Klatzow: Looking into Darkness begins on S3 and Amy Bradley is Missing on Netflix.


Evil Witch Teasers - August 2025

Series finale! Pavithra fights to survive and there's a trrrembling Rajput house...


Suidooster Teasers - August 2025

Gary has a risky plan to catch the girl who robbed him.


New on TV today: Tuesday 15 July 2025

Normal People hook up on Disney+ as Race to Survive: New Zealand kicks off on M-Net.


Revealed! Cast and story details for Mzansi Wethu's new telenovela Homecoming

A doctor in a white coat gets a check-up from a doctor wearing beads.


Uzalo Teasers - August 2025

It's a beef buffet at the hostel and MaDlala asks God to lead her not into temptation.


Gelukbringers Teasers - August 2025

Azra receives a mysterious letter about her dad's murder and chaos unfolds when a video is leaked.


New on TV today: Monday 14 July 2025

Based on real life miniseries Happy Face is on M-Net and Magda Louw returns to kykNET.


New on TV today: Sunday 13 July 2025

Hitler and Churchill take centre stage on HISTORY and Jaws @ 50 debuts on National Geographic.


New on TV today: Saturday 12 July 2025

There's a Predator Countdown on BBC Earth and the return of 1000-lb Sisters and F*ck, That's Delicious.

LATEST SITE ACTIVITY


More activity at TVSA Central



LATEST SOAPIE TEASERS



LATEST SOAPIE TEASERS





×
×

You browser doesn't have Flash, Silverlight, Gears, BrowserPlus or HTML5 support.