Nepotism Kid: Oscar-Winning Mom Acted with Selena Gomez and Nicole Kidman

Her mother is an Oscar winner who is considered the best actress in Hollywood.

The 76-year-old icon graduated from Yale University then worked with top actors in the 1970s.

Her career has been versatile: She was in a gritty drama with Dustin Hoffman, a love story with Clint Eastwood, a comedy with Goldie Hawn, a back-stabbing series with Nicole Kidman and now she works with Selena Gomez.

This top A-lister is also recently single and linked to a charming veteran comedian these days.

Her daughter was at the CFDA Awards on Monday where she wore a men’s suit with a crisp white shirt. Her hair was worn short.

This 34-year-old also went to Yale and now works as an actress too.

Who is she?

She is Louisa Jacobson Gummer.

Gummer is the youngest child of actress Meryl Streep who is thought to be dating her Only Murders In The Building co-star Martin Short.

This nepo kid graduated from Yale School of Drama with an MFA in acting.

Jacobson made her television debut in 2022 as Marian Brook in the HBO period drama series The Gilded Age.

She also appeared in the 2019 film Gone Hollywood and the film The Materialists.

On stage, she debuted professionally in the Old Globe Theater’s production of Rome And Juliet in 2019, playing Juliet.

In June 2024, Louisa came out as a lesbian.

She posted snaps with producer partner Anna Blundell as she wrote: ‘Blessed to be entering the Joyful New Era bb’ followed by heart and rainbow flag emojis.

In 2022 Louisa was dating actor Jonathan Higginbotham who she met at the Yale School of Drama.

She told Vanity Fair of dating another actor: ‘It’s great in a way. We share this strange career together and can complain about the same things. He knows so deeply what it is that I do.’ 

‘It’s always a tricky thing to navigate the different stages of one’s career. The imbalances that might exist during one time will flip and go the other way at another time. You just have to go with the flow and be really supportive of one another.’ 

Streep and husband of 45 years, Gummer, announced their split in October as they revealed they’ve been separated ‘for more than six years’ after deciding to have ‘lives apart.’ 

In a statement shared to Page Six, a spokesperson expressed that The Devil Wears Prada actress, 75, and the sculptor, 77, ‘have been separated for more than 6 years, and while they will always care for each other, they have chosen lives apart.’ 

The pair initially tied the knot in 1978 and share four children: Henry, 44, Mamie, 41, Grace, 38, and Louisa.

One year after his death, the Mamma Mia! star reflected on the loss, and told People at the time, ‘The death is still very much with me. It has forced me to confront my own mortality, and once you do that, you look at things differently.’

Following his death, the actress needed to move out of the apartment she had shared with Cazale, and received help from her brother and one of his friends – who happened to be Gummer.

Meryl and Don became close and he let Meryl sublet his apartment in New York City when he was not in the Big Apple. The pair began to exchange letters, and a friendship soon turned into something more serious.

During the course of their marriage, Meryl and Gummer – who has his MFA from Yale University – welcomed four children, and also have five grandchildren. 

Back in 2002, the star opened up about her relationship with the artist, and informed Vogue that the secret to their long-lasting marriage was, ‘goodwill and willingness to bend – and to shut up every once in a while.’ 

She further explained, ‘There’s no road map on how to raise a family: It’s always an enormous negotiation.’

‘But I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can’t imagine eschewing one for the other.’ 

Professionally Louisa uses the surname of Jacobson, which is her middle name, as there already is an actress named Louisa Gummer.

The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) requires that ‘no member use a professional name which is the same as, or resembles so closely as to tend to be confused with the name of any other member.’

She made her professional acting debut as Mary Dalton in Yale Repertory Theatre’s production of Nambi E. Kelley’s Native Son which was directed by Seret Scott in 2017. 

Louisa went on to have other stage roles including starring as Juliet in The Old Globe’s production of Romeo And Juliet in 2019.

In 2022, she made her television debut in the aforementioned period drama series The Gilded Age created and written by Julian Fellowes.

With the role she was nominated alongside her castmates for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2023 which was ultimately won by fellow HBO series Succession. 

Things certainly are coming up for the rising star as she will also be making her big screen debut in a supporting role for Celine Song’s A24 romantic comedy Materialists.

Her costars are Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal and Chris Evans. 

Meanwhile Louisa’s partner has produced several high fashion campaigns for Tory Burch, Chloe, and most recently Anne Hathaway for Versace.