After 45 years of marriage, the Oscar-winning actress and the American artist are reportedly leading different lifestyles at this point in their careers.
After spending 45 years together as a married couple, Meryl Streep and Don Gummer have decided to go their own ways and are now living different lives.
A spokesman for the Academy Award–winning actress claimed in a statement that she and Gummer “have been separated for more than six years.” The statement was issued to Page Six, which was the publication that originally reported the news. A further statement was made by the spokesman, which said, “And while they will always care for each other, they have chosen lives apart.”
Even after it was reported that Streep was seen wearing her wedding ring when attending the 2023 Princesa de Asturias Awards in Spain on Friday, the surprising news was revealed. That being said, the last time Meryl Streep and Mamie Gummer were seen together was at the Academy Awards in 2018, and that was more than a year ago. ET has attempted to contact Streep’s representative for a comment on the matter.
On September 30, 2018, Streep and Gummer celebrated 45 years of marriage together. They have five grandkids between them and are the parents of four children: Henry Wolfe, age 43, actress Mamie Gummer, age 40, Grace Gummer, age 37, and Louisa Jacobson, age 30.
According to People, which independently verified the event, Streep and Gummer first crossed paths in 1978 as a result of Streep’s brother. At the time, she was lamenting the loss of her lover, the actor John Cazale, who had just passed away due to lung cancer. In the same year that they first met, Meryl Streep and Mamie Gummer tied the married just six months later.
According to the source, at the same time that Meryl Streep was gaining reputation as a young actress in Hollywood, Gummer was also earning notoriety as a famous sculptor. Before he received his Master of Fine Arts degree from Yale University, he attended classes at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Eventually, his artwork would be shown in exhibits in a variety of locations all over the globe.
When asked by Vogue in 2002 about the key to a happy marriage, Meryl Streep revealed a rare look into her own marriage with the publication.
“Goodwill and willingness to bend — and to shut up every once in a while,” according to her.
She went on to say that there is no set plan for how to bring up a family and that it is always a massive discussion. But I have a holistic need to both work and have significant love relationships in my life. Neither one can exist without the other. I just cannot fathom giving up either one in favor of the other.
At the opening of her acceptance speech for the Academy Award for Best Actress that Meryl Streep received in 2012 for her depiction of Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady, she thanked her husband, Don Gummer, for all that he had provided to her over the course of their relationship.
“First, I’m going to thank Don because when you thank your husband at the end of the speech they play him out with the music,” according to her, “and I want him to know that everything I value most in our lives, you’ve given me.”
