Louisa Jacobson, the youngest daughter of Meryl Streep and Don Gummer, was “hiding for so long, part of myself I always knew was there,” she told Page Six while attending the Human Rights Campaign’s Greater New York Dinner on Saturday, February 1.
Jacobson added that she was in “straight relationships back-to-back” but after she took time to be single, she found the “part that [she] was hiding was really making itself known.”
The actress, who stars in HBO’s The Gilded Age, came out during Pride month in June 2024. Jacobson shared her first official social media photos with her partner, Anna Blundell, on June 22.
Jacobson also told Page Six how important it was for her to share her story. “I think the more we see people like us, who we can relate to, who are following onto this path and stepping into their truth unapologetically, will inspire others that they can do the same, that their truths are OK and not to be ashamed of,” she explained.
Like Streep did before her, Jacobson graduated from the Yale School of Drama and began performing onstage before moving in front of the camera on the small screen. She spoke exclusively with Us ahead of the third season of The Gilded Age in February 2024.
“I think season 3 is just going to be a continuation of the same delicious drama,” Jacobson said at the time. “But maybe with a little more power and edge.”
In February 2022, Jacobson opened up to Vanity Fair about the challenges that have come with working on the Julian Fellowes-headed series, especially since this was her first foray into TV.
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“[I] chose to bury my desire to act,” she told the outlet, despite having grown up attending theatre camps. “I needed to prove to myself, my family, and my peers that somehow I was different.”
She also told the magazine that she understood her character, Marian, because of what they have in common. “[Marian] doesn’t want her life handed to her. She wants to pave her own path,” Jacobson said. “She’s a person who doesn’t let the shiny exterior fool her.”
Jacobson’s mother most recently made the news after her nephew, Abe Streep, revealed she cut a “car-size” hole into the fence she shares with her neighbors to escape the devastating fires in Los Angeles. “Evacuation mandates were sent across the city,” Abe wrote in an article published in New York Magazine on Tuesday, January 28.
“My aunt Meryl Streep received an order to evacuate on January 8, but when she tried to leave, she discovered that a large tree had fallen over in her driveway, blocking her only exit,” he added. “Determined to make it out, she borrowed wire cutters from a neighbor, cut a car-size hole in the fence she shared with the neighbors on the other side, and drove through their yard to escape.”
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