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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.

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The Hot Zone: Who is Dr. Peter Jahrling, played by actor Topher Grace?

Dr. Peter Jahrling, portrayed by actor Topher Grace, is one of the key characters in The Hot Zone, National Geographic’s new six-episode science thriller miniseries that is an adaptation of the best selling 1994 book of the same name by author Richard Preston. The Hot Zone premiered on National Geographic on Monday night to much