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Name
Merritt Wever

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1980-08-11 (46 years old)

Place of Birth
New York, New York, USA

Biography

Merritt Carmen Wever (born August 11, 1980) is an American actress. She is known for starring as a perennially upbeat young nurse in Nurse Jackie (2009–2015), an intrepid widow in the Netflix period miniseries Godless (2017), and a detective investigating a serial rapist in the Netflix crime mini-series Unbelievable (2019). For Nurse Jackie, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2013, for Godless, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie in 2018 and for the mini-series Unbelievable, she was nominated the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film in 2020.

Wever has also had supporting roles in other television series, including Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006–2007), New Girl (2013), and The Walking Dead (2015–2016). She has also played supporting roles in such films as Michael Clayton (2007), Birdman (2014), and Marriage Story (2019), all of which were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, with Birdman winning.

Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

2002 Signs as Tracey Abernathy
2004 Something the Lord Made as Mrs. Saxon
2010 Greenberg as Gina
2018 Irreplaceable You as Mindy
2017 The Last Face as Marlee
2010 Tiny Furniture as Frankie
1995 Blue River as Lottie
1998 Strike! as Maureen 'Momo' Haines
2001 Series 7 as Lindsay
2013 Remember Sunday as Lucy
2023 Memory as Olivia
1998 The Adventures of Sebastian Cole as Susan
2004 A Hole in One as Betty
2014 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Annie
2015 Meadowland as Kelly
2007 Michael Clayton as Anna
2022 Midday Black Midnight Blue as Beth
2007 Into the Wild as Lori
2008 Righteous Kill as Rape Victim
2009 The Missing Person as Mabel Page
2018 Welcome to Marwen as Roberta
2019 Marriage Story as Cassie
2019 Charlie Says as Karlene Faith
2011 The Strange Ones as Girl
2011 Boys On Film: Bad Romance as Girl (segment "The Strange Ones")
1997 Arresting Gena as Tammy
2006 12 and Holding as Debbie Poole
2009 The Messenger as Lara
2025 Christy as Joyce Salters
2026 Primetime as Andie Bender
2003 Season of Youth
2027 The Great Beyond

1990 Law & Order ( 1 episode ) as Sunshine Porter
2002 The Wire ( 1 episode ) as Prissy
2006 Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip ( 12 episodes ) as Suzanne
2003 NCIS ( 1 episode ) as Wendy Smith
2001 Law & Order: Criminal Intent ( 1 episode ) as Hannah Price
2009 Nurse Jackie ( 80 episodes ) as Zoey Barkow
2011 New Girl ( 7 episodes ) as Elizabeth
2017 Godless ( 7 episodes ) as Mary Agnes
2022 Roar ( 1 episode ) as Elisa
1990 Law & Order ( 1 episode ) as Myra
2005 1/4life ( 1 episode )
1990 Law & Order ( 1 episode ) as Jennifer Taylor
2020 RUN ( 7 episodes ) as Ruby Richardson
2025 The Bombing of Pan Am 103 ( 6 episodes ) as Kathryn Turman
2019 Unbelievable ( 8 episodes ) as Detective Karen Duvall
2006 Conviction ( 1 episode ) as Bridget Kellner
2010 The Walking Dead ( 9 episodes ) as Denise Cloyd
2005 Robot Chicken ( 1 episode ) as Mandy / Susan the Tauntaun (voice)
2009 The Good Wife ( 1 episode ) as Aubrey Gardner
2023 Tiny Beautiful Things ( 8 episodes ) as Frankie Pierce
2022 Severance ( 4 episodes ) as Gretchen George
2022 The Gilded Age ( 2 episodes ) as Monica O'Brien
2022 Severance ( 1 episode ) as Gretchen George (voice) (uncredited)
1996 The Daily Show ( 1 episode ) as Self

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