LOUISA JACOBSON is the breakout star of new HBO and Sky Atlantic series The Gilded Age.
Let’s take a look at who she is.
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Who is Louisa Jacobson?
Louisa Jacobson is an American actress who is new to the world of television.
Nevertheless, she has worked hard to get to where she is.
Louisa has a psychology degree from Vassar College, an MFS in acting at Yale University and also studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford.
Is she related to Meryl Streep?
Louisa Jacobson is the daughter of award-winning actress Meryl Streep.
She is the youngest of the family that is headed by Streep and sculptor dad Don Gummer.
What TV shows has she been in?
The Gilded Age will be Louisa’s biggest television part to date.
Set to air in 2022, Julian Fellowes’ series will star Louisa, as well as Christine Baranski and Cynthia Nixon.
The show is set in the United States during the Gilded Age, the boom years of 1880s New York City, and has already been labelled as the “US Downton Abbey”.
Louisa stars as Marian Brook, who is sent to live with her estranged aunts Agnes and Ada after her dad dies, leaving her penniless.
As her character leaves Pennsylvania and heads to New York, she knows that if she is to get by, she will need to marry.
However, Marian is determined to get more from her life, not wanting just to be another wife.
Speaking to What to Watch, Louisa explained: “Marian knows that her probable fate will be to marry as well as she can and survive, but she wants more than this.
“She wants to do something with her life. She wants to be fulfilled.”
Her first TV performance was in 2019 in the television movie Gone Hollywood as Trish Sparks.
On stage, Louisa made her professional acting debut as Mary Dalton in Yale Repertory Theatre’s production of Nambi E. Kelley’s Native Son, directed by Seret Scott.
In 2018, she starred in Williamstown Theatre Festival’s production of Carson McCullers’ play Member of the Wedding, opposite Tavi Gevinson and directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch.
In 2019, she starred as Juliet in The Old Globe’s production of Romeo and Juliet.
