You have an eye for faces, because they are indeed quite closely related: Grace Gummer is Meryl Streep's daughter. (Her last name comes from her father, and Streep's longtime husband, sculptor Don Gummer.)

Acting seems to be a tradition in the family -- Grace's elder sister, Mamie, has a number of TV and film credits, including her own short-lived CW series, "Emily Owens, M.D." But despite the impeccable acting pedigree, Gummer said she wasn't pressured into joining the family business.

Though Grace and Mamie each had roles in their mother's films when they were children, they were given pseudonyms so as to not attract attention to their relation (Grace appeared as Jane Gray in her mother's 1993 film "The House of the Spirits" and Mamie as Natalie Stern in 1986's "Heartburn").

Grace told "Interview" magazine that her parents have supported her in all her endeavors, and that she only came to acting late, and somewhat reluctantly.

She studied art history in university and was working as a costume designer when a friend asked her to work on the outfits for a play he was writing. He sent her the script -- the play was "The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents," which was staged off-Broadway in New York -- and she fell in love.

"I read it and I didn't have any design ideas. I just wanted to be in it -- I wanted to say those things."

Grace moved to the screen shortly afterward -- first the big screen in the 2010 indie art film "Meskada," then the small screen later the same year in the Nickelodeon series "Gigantic" (appearing opposite Gia Mantegna, daughter of "Criminal Minds" star Joe Mantegna).

A number of other roles followed, including a run on "The Newsroom" and the short-lived ABC drama "Zero Hour."

Grace will be back on the big screen later this year in the western drama "The Homesman," which won a lot of buzz at the Cannes festival last month. Part of that buzz was due to a strong supporting performance from another actress: her mom.

This time, Grace will be credited as herself.

She can now be seen on the CBS sci-fi drama "Extant," opposite Halle Berry.

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