Meryl Streep’s Daughter Mamie Gummer Engaged to Ben Walker

By Amanda Pendolino on October 20th, 2009

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Actor Ben Walker is about to find out what it’s like to have Meryl Streep as a mother-in-law. According to People magazine, the 27 year-old recently popped the question to Meryl’s daughter Mamie Gummer, 25, and she said yes!

Mamie (who has never gone by her real name, Mary), dished about the proposal at the Versace-sponsored annual Whitney Gala last night. Did Ben do it the old-fashioned way, down on one knee? “Yeah, he sure did,” Mamie said. She added that her entire family is ecstatic about the engagement. “They’re all happy,” she said. “We’re all very, very smiley.”

Ben admitted he was scared to propose, but that it was “great.” He gave Mamie a modest ring with an old-fashioned oversized setting, but won’t reveal where he got it from. “He had it made somewhere,” Mamie said. “He won’t tell me where.”

The couple met while performing Dangerous Liasons on Broadway in April 2008, and began dating about a year and a half ago. “He was the Keanu to my Uma,” she said. “We were kind of pals first. It was a drawn-out thing.” Maybe the “friends first” thing can actually work! She says she’s attracted to his height, and how nice he is. “He puts up with me,” she said. “He’s very patient.”