Jemima Kirke: Artist, Accidental TV Star
And a sweetly conventional, Brooklyn lifestyle. Jemima is married to Michael Mosberg, an attorney—they have two kids, Rafaella, 2, and Memphis, 4 months. And unlike a lot of New Yorkers, she’s very happy where she is, and can’t name another part of Brooklyn, or the city, she’d rather live in: “I’m perfectly content where I am. I’m not going anywhere any time soon.”
That sense of contentment, and taking things in stride, pervades everything she talks about. Discussing the travails of being a working mother, she sounds almost spookily down-to-earth: “God, it’s tough. Nothing I can say will make it easier. Don’t try to be the best. As far as parenting goes, sometimes ‘good enough’ is all you can do.”
Much of her non-acting life revolves around her kids, and her neighborhood; a favorite local hang is the charmingly kid-centric Brooklyn Farmacy & Soda Fountain on Henry Street. Other family destinations are the library, The Painted Pot, and the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, which “is good whether you’re with ten people or no people. We’re always finding new things to do. And a lot of what we like to do revolves around eating. There are so many delicious restaurants in my neighborhood.”
