“Oppenheimer” star Nick Dumont is transgender and nonbinary, a spokesperson for the actor advised TMZ on Thursday.
Dumont, 30, lately modified their Instagram profile to checklist their pronouns as they/them and their identify as Nick Dumont. Their deal with on the social media platform stays @EmmaDumont.
“They identify as a trans masculine non-binary person,” a consultant for Dumont advised TMZ in an announcement Thursday. “Their work name is still going to be Emma Dumont, but they will go by Nick with friends and family.”
HuffPost has reached out to Dumont for remark.
The North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology describes transmasculinity as encompassing “those who identify as transgender men and those who identify on the masculine side” of the gender spectrum. (Somebody who’s nonbinary identifies as neither strictly a person or a girl.)
Dumont has but to publicly tackle the change themself, however shared a carousel of latest Instagram pictures Tuesday displaying them in informal T-shirts, a leather-based jacket and shorter, medium-length hair.
The previous baby actor nabbed their first main function in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Inherent Vice” (2014) reverse Joaquin Phoenix. A two-season run on Fox’s “The Gifted” earned them a spot on IndieWire’s 2017 checklist of “25 Breakout Stars Poised To Make It Big.”
Dumont was later forged in Anderson’s follow-up, “Licorice Pizza.” Over the summer season, they appeared because the titular character’s sister-in-law, Jackie Oppenheimer, in Christopher Nolan’s 2023 blockbuster — which, alongside Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie,” grew to become a cultural phenomenon.
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Dumont beforehand opened up about their determination to change into an actor, telling Concern Journal in 2018 that they “always knew I wanted to be a performer because I love to make people laugh. I need a lot of attention. Let’s just say that.”
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Dumont added on the time that, whereas “you give up so much” by changing into knowledgeable actor — comparable to household time and friendships — appearing is “really fulfilling because you’re making stuff that hopefully means something to you and might change people’s lives.”
The actor will subsequent seem within the horror movie “New Me,” which per a synopsis follows a newfound mom who “struggles to emotionally connect with her baby and husband” — and goes on to seek out out why “at a terribly haunting price.”
A launch date for “New Me” has but to be introduced.
