Meryl Streep's rarely-seen youngest daughter Louisa Jacobson wows with bold red carpet look... two years after coming out as a lesbian

Meryl Streep's youngest daughter Louisa Jacobson made a rare red carpet appearance this week – and shocked with a very daring new look.

Jacobson, 35, who Streep, 77, shares with estranged husband Don Gummer,  79,  wowed in a pinstripe suit from Haider Ackermann’s spring 2027 Tom Ford collection – choosing to forgo a slip.

The Gilded Age actress wore her newly cropped blonde hair in a sleek side part and added metallic heels as she posed at the 2026 WWD Honors Gala in New York City.

Jacobson graduated from the Yale School of Drama with an MFA in acting. She is known for starring in the HBO period drama series The Gilded Age as Marian Brook.

Streep and Gummer also share son Henry, 46, who is a musician, and daughters Mamie, 42, and Grace, 39, who have followed Streep into the world of acting.

In June 2024, Jacobson came out as a lesbian and posted snaps with producer partner Anna Blundell as she wrote:  'blessed to be entering the Joyful New Era bb' followed by heart and rainbow flag emojis.

The photos were posted during Streep's 75th birthday weekend on June 22 – with one follower revealing: 'Coming out at your mom's birthday is so iconic!' 

Oscar-winner Ariana DeBose posted 'live queen' as other fans rushed to the comments to congratulate her. 

In February 2025, while attending the Human Rights Campaign 2025 Greater New York Dinner, Jacobson spoke exclusively with The Daily Mail about coming out.

Meryl has been 'so supportive,' she revealed.

'Luckily the community is a very accepting one and I haven't run into any issues with regard to casting, yet. So we'll see,' she shared.

She then noted that the 'biggest change' for her since coming out was her relationship with her femininity.

'I think that the biggest change is actually how it's affected my relationship to my femininity. I think we're in a very exciting time where femininity is being redefined by artists and people in the fashion industry,' she explained.

'I think it has brought a lot more possibility to my expression of self and my life than I thought. It's so much more about, just the fact that I'm dating a woman.

'It's my whole identity and my entire self expression has just expanded.'

In 2022, Jacobson was dating actor Jonathan Higginbotham who she met at the Yale School of Drama.  

She told Vanity Fair of dating another actor: ‘It’s great in a way. We share this strange career together and can complain about the same things. He knows so deeply what it is that I do.’ 

'It’s always a tricky thing to navigate the different stages of one’s career. The imbalances that might exist during one time will flip and go the other way at another time. You just have to go with the flow and be really supportive of one another.’ 

Streep and husband of 45 years, Gummer, announced their split in October 2023 as they revealed they've been separated 'for more than six years' after deciding to have 'lives apart.' 

In a statement shared to Page Six, a spokesperson expressed that The Devil Wears Prada actress and the sculptor 'have been separated for more than 6 years, and while they will always care for each other, they have chosen lives apart.' 

The former couple were first introduced through Meryl's brother in 1978, and said 'I do' later that same year in September during a romantic ceremony in the garden of her parents' house. 

The nuptials took place six months after her late boyfriend and fellow actor, John Cazale, passed away in March 1978 following a diagnosis of lung cancer.

One year after his death, the Mamma Mia! star reflected on the loss, and told People at the time: 'The death is still very much with me. It has forced me to confront my own mortality, and once you do that, you look at things differently.'

Following his death, the actress needed to move out of the apartment she had shared with Cazale, and received help from her brother and one of his friends, who happened to be Gummer.