Louisa Jacobson is an American actress born in 1991 in Los Angeles, California, United States to parents Meryl Streep and Don Gummer. She is best known for her work in Theatres and has starred as Juliet in The Old Globe's production of Romeo and Juliet in 2019.
Is Louisa Jacobson Related To Meryl Streep?
Louisa Jacobson is an American actress and is best known for being the daughter of award-winning actress Meryl Streep. She is the youngest daughter of Meryl Streep and her sculptor dad, Don Gummer.
Louisa Jacobson has recently made her debut in the world of television and she is set to star in Julian Fellowes HBO series The Gilded Age opposite Christine Baranski and Cynthia Nixon. This will be her biggest television part to date and the series will air in 2022. The series will be based in the United States during the Glided age which is also the boom years of the 1880s New York City and it has been already labeled as US Downtown Abbey.
The daughter of Meryl Streep, Louisa will star as Marian Brook who is sent to live with her estranged aunts Agnes and Ada after her dad died, leaving her penniless. Her character knows that she needs to get married but she is determined to get more from her life than just be another wife. The actress Louisa herself explained her character saying, "Marian knows that her probable fate will be to marry as well as she can and survive, but she wants more than this. She wants to do something with her life. She wants to be fulfilled."
Louisa Jacobson Parents Details
Louisa Jacobson is the youngest daughter of Don Gummer and Meryl Streep and she has four siblings. Her older brother, Henry Wolfe Gummer is a musician, and her two older sisters Mamie Gummer and Grace Gummer are into the acting industry just like her. She has Mary Wolf Wilkinson and Harry William Steep, Jr as her maternal grandparents and her paternal grandparents are Dorothy Gummer and William Adolph Gummer.
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Louisa Jacobson has mixed ancestral lineage which includes Swiss-German and German-English-Irish ancestry from her mother's side. She has also Norwegian-Germany ancestry from her father's side. She grew up in a $3 million mansion in Brentwood, Los Angeles in California. Her family later relocated to Connecticut.
Louisa Jacobson Career Details
Louisa Jacobson is set to star in the historical drama The Glided Age as Marian Brook in the HOB series alongside Carrie Coon, Cynthia Nixon, and Christine Baranski. Her character, Marian wears lavish costumes and Louisa talked about it saying, "The costumes were such an integral part of how I got into the character and into the world basically of that period. I had a love-hate relationship with them at times. Some of the dresses were like my childhood dream come true. But that was also annoying and I think as a modern woman now, I found it frustrating and constricting."
Louisa Jacobson made her professional acting debut in Yale Repertory Theatre's production of Nambi E. Kelley's Mative Son on stage. She also starred in the play Member of the Wedding in 2018 directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch. Louisa appeared in the Old Globe's production of Romeo and Juliet in 2019 as Juliet.
Louisa made her first on-screen appearance on EastEnders in 2001 and had worked in The Orange Tree, Stella, The Ultimate Truth, and more. She has also made herself known in the video gaming industry and is famous for games like The Movies, The Order: 1866, and received a nomination for Best Female Voiceover Performance by VOX.
Louisa Jacobson Personal Life
The actress Louisa is known to be quite of a private person and there isn't much information about her personal life. She has also decided to keep her past relationships private. However, the actress is believed to be single at the moment and her dating history is lowkey. She isn't married and has no children.
However, she has married in the play The Members of the Wedding where her character, Janice, gets married to the protagonist, Frankie Addams played by Tavi Gevinson. The play showed issues concerning gender, sexuality, and race on the Main Stage at Williamstown Theatre Festival in 2018.