Background
Gummer was born in New York City, New York, and is the daughter of actress Meryl Streep and sculptor Don Gummer. She grew up in Salisbury, Connecticut, and also spent five years in Los Angeles, California, with her older brother, Henry Wolfe Gummer, and younger sisters, actress Grace Gummer and model Louisa Gummer. As a young child, she appeared with her mother in Heartburn (credited under the name Natalie Stern to avoid press scrutiny).
Education
She attended Mission Porter"s School, and graduated from the Kent School in Kent, Connecticut, before continuing her studies in theater and communications at Northwestern University, graduating in 2005.
Career
She starred in the title role of the CW series Emily Owens, Doctor of Medicine (2012-2013), and plays the recurring role of Nancy Crozier on The Good Wife (2010-2015). She has also appeared in the films Evening (2007), Side Effects (2013), Cake (2014), and Ricki and the Flash (2015). 20 months old at the time of filming, she received a positive review in the New York Times.
Gummer made her motion-picture debut as an adult with a minor role in Lasse Hallström"s The Hoax (2006), starring Richard Gere.
In 2007, she starred with her mother in Michael Cunningham"s film adaptation of Susan Minot"s novel Evening, playing her mother as a young woman. The film, directed by Lajos Koltai, featured Vanessa Redgrave, Glenn Close, and Claire Danes.
She portrayed Sally Adams in the 2008 Home Box Office mini series John Adams, which details the life of the second President of the United States. She also guest-starred on the Columbia Broadcasting System legal drama The Good Wife in the season 1 episode "Bad" portraying Nancy Crozier.
Her character returned again on season 2 episodes "Cleaning House" and "Getting Office".
In 2010, she starred in The Lightkeepers with Richard Dreyfuss, Tom Wisdom, Blythe Danner and Bruce Dern. Starting in 2011, she starred in the American Broadcasting Company medical show Office the Map with Zach Gilford and Valerie Cruz. The show was created by Jenna Bans and Shonda Rhimes.
In April, 2011, she starred with Hamish Linklater and Alison Fraser, in the Office-Broadway production of The School Foreign Lies written by David Ives, directed by Walter Bobbie, and produced by Classic Stage Company.
In 2012, she starred in the CW"s Emily Owens, Doctor of Medicine The series was cancelled early during its first season, but the network continued to air the rest of its 13-episode order.
Starting in 2015, she began a featured role in the World's Greatest Newspaper America series Manhattan. On February 1, 2016, it was announced that Gummer had joined the cast of the Amazon series The Collection as a series regular in the role of Helen Sabine.