I know most of you probably won’t care about this story, but I find it really, really interesting and I already have a conspiracy theory cooking, which I’ll get to in a moment. First of all, Mamie Gummer is the actress daughter of Meryl Streep and Meryl’s husband Donald Gummer. Backstory: Don and Meryl have been together for literally decades – she was engaged to John Cazale until Cazale passed away too soon (in 1978). Meryl met Gummer a short time later, and they proceeded to get married and live happily ever after.
Anyway, Mamie is 29 and she married actor Benjamin Walker in 2011. Walker is mostly known as a New York stage actor who has starred in stage productions of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, and he’s currently starring on Broadway in Cat On a Hot Tin Roof. He also starred in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. You may know Mamie from her guest spots on The Good Wife (she plays a recurring character of a conniving lawyer who fronts like she’s naïve and innocent) or from her failed series Emily Owens MD. Anyway, Mamie and Benjamin have just split after less than two years of marriage:
Mamie Gummer’s marriage is ending. The Side Effects actress — and Meryl Streep’s daughter — has split with husband Benjamin Walker, reps for both stars confirm exclusively to Us Weekly. “It’s very amicable,” Gummer’s rep tells Us.
Adds another insider: “[The split] is very new.”
Actors who’ve earned their chops on the Broadway stage as well as in TV and film, Gummer, 29, and the Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter star, 30, first announced their engagement to Us back in October 2009. Gummer told Us that Walker “surprised” her with a custom-made ring. “He did it on one knee!” she added at the time. “My mom loves him!”
They tied the knot nearly two years later, at her family’s Connecticut estate, in July 2011, with stars like Claire Danes, Laura Linney and Tracey Ullman in attendance. The Emily Owens, MD star is the second eldest child of Oscar-winning actress Streep, 63, and sculptor husband Don Gummer, who have four children: musician Henry Gummer, 33, Smash actress Grace Gummer, 26, and student Louisa Gummer, 21.
The couple met while performing in the spring 2008 Broadway production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses. “She was the Uma to my Keanu,” Walker told New York magazine in a January 2013 interview. Walker is currently starring in a Broadway revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opposite Scarlett Johansson — and spoke fondly of his wife, with whom he shared a Brooklyn, NYC home, during the New York mag interview two months ago.
“She always worries about me in [press interviews] and rightfully so,” said Walker, who texted his wife during the sit-down.
So, it seems to me like two bright, attractive, well-born, well-educated actors fell apart really quickly and that things probably are NOT as “amicable” as they seem, right? If it was so amicable, why are they splitting up? Which brings me to my conspiracy theory… Benjamin is currently starring as Brick in Cat On a Hot Tin Roof. Scarlett Johansson is playing Maggie the Cat. While ScarJo is still dating that bizarre Frenchman, would anyone be shocked to learn that she was fooling around? And the last time she was on Broadway, her costar’s relationship also seemed to falter too, and there were widespread rumors that she was fooling around with that guy too (and that was when she was married too). So, is infidelity the reason Walker and Gummer split? As I said, it’s just a theory.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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