Viola Davis is honored at the annual Chaplin Awards Gala
Meryl Streep, Jessica Chastain and Adrienne Warren are among the stars who honored Viola Davis at the 48th Annual Chaplin Awards Gala in New York (April 25).
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Meryl Streep and her husband Don Gummer quietly separated during their 45-year marriage.
The Oscar-winning actress, 74, and the sculptor, 76, announced their breakup six years ago, although they remain legally married.
“Don Gummer and Meryl Streep have been separated for more than six years and while they will always care for each other, they have chosen to live separate lives,” a representative for Streep said in a statement to People on Saturday. The statement was first shared with Page Six on Friday.
USA TODAY has reached out to Streep’s rep for confirmation.
Streep and Gummer last appeared in public at the Oscars in 2018, where the three-time Oscar winner was nominated for best actress for her role as newspaper publisher Kay Graham in “The Post.”
The “Mamma Mia!” star and her husband married in 1978, six months after they met, according to People and Page Six.
The couple shares four adult children: Henry Wolfe, 43; Mamie Gummer, 40; Grace Gummer, 37; and Louisa Jacobson, 32.
Streep and Gummer have kept their relationship private. In 2002, the “The Devil Wears Prada” actress told Vogue that the secret to her long-lasting marriage was “goodwill and a willingness to bend — and keep your mouth shut every now and then.”
“There is no guidebook on how to start a family: it is always a huge amount of negotiation,” she said. “But I have a holistic need to work and have great romantic relationships in my life. I can’t imagine replacing one with the other.”
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Streep later made a rare public statement about her marriage, thanking Gummer in her acceptance speech at the 2012 Academy Awards for best actress for her role as British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady.”
“First I want to thank Don, because when you thank your husband at the end of the speech, you’re playing him off to the music, and I want him to know that you gave everything that I care about most in our lives “I,” she said.
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