“Oppenheimer” star Nick Dumont is transgender and nonbinary, a spokesperson for the actor told TMZ on Thursday.
Dumont, 30, recently changed their Instagram profile to list their pronouns as they/them and their name as Nick Dumont. Their handle on the social media platform remains @EmmaDumont.
“They identify as a trans masculine non-binary person,” a representative for Dumont told TMZ in a statement 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 comment.
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. (Someone who is nonbinary identifies as neither strictly a man or a woman.)
Dumont has yet to publicly address the change themself, but shared a carousel of new Instagram photos Tuesday showing them in casual T-shirts, a leather jacket and shorter, medium-length hair.
The former child actor nabbed their first major role in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Inherent Vice” (2014) opposite Joaquin Phoenix. A two-season run on Fox’s “The Gifted” earned them a spot on IndieWire’s 2017 list of “25 Breakout Stars Poised To Make It Big.”
Dumont was later cast in Anderson’s follow-up, “Licorice Pizza.” Over the summer, they appeared as the titular character’s sister-in-law, Jackie Oppenheimer, in Christopher Nolan’s 2023 blockbuster — which, alongside Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie,” became a cultural phenomenon.
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Dumont previously opened up about their decision to become an actor, telling Issue Magazine 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 at the time that, while “you give up so much” by becoming a professional actor — such as family time and friendships — acting is “really fulfilling because you’re making stuff that hopefully means something to you and might change people’s lives.”
The actor will next appear in the horror film “New Me,” which per a synopsis follows a newfound mother who “struggles to emotionally connect with her baby and husband” — and goes on to find out why “at a terribly haunting price.”
A release date for “New Me” has yet to be announced.