Henry Gummer, who also goes by Henry Wolfe (his middle name), was born on Nov. 13, 1979, in New York. He’s Streep and Don’s oldest child and only son. Compared to the rest of his family, Henry keeps a relatively low profile, as he didn’t pursue acting like his iconic mom or sisters. Instead, he followed after music.
Henry told The New York Daily News in 2011, “For me, music was more stimulating from day to day. It was something that I didn’t need to be working on a project to practice. I can do it whenever and I get satisfaction from completing songs that I never really got from acting.”
Henry also doesn’t like to speak much about his famous mom in the press, telling the outlet, “The fact that my mom is who she is can be overshadowing. Sometimes I worry that my story isn’t good enough. Sure, my mom is part of the story and I don’t get pissed when people ask me about her, but I wish I had something that could eclipse that as far as compelling story lines.”
Per NY Daily News, Henry tried to study acting at one point but dropped out of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts after two years to focus on music, becoming a guitarist and songwriter. He’s released a handful of projects and singles through the years. According to People, he had songs appear on soundtracks for a few of Streeps’s movies — including “Julie and Julia” and “Ricki and the Flash.” Henry is also married to wife Tamryn Gummer, whom he wed in 2019, and the pair have two children: a daughter, Ida June Gummer, born in 2020; and a son, Quinn William Gummer, who was born in 2022.