The Hot Zone: Meryl Streep’s daughter Grace Gummer stars as Melinda Danport
Meryl Streep’s daughter Grace Gummer plays the recurring role of Melinda Danport in National Geographic’s The Hot Zone. Melinda Danport is an aid worker in Zaire in the ’70s. She later marries CDC official Trevor Rhodes (James D’Arcy), who she met in Zaire in 1976. In 1976, Trevor Rhodes was working in Zaire with Dr.