Merritt Wever

Acting · Born 1980-08-11 in 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…

Filmography

• Signs as Tracey Abernathy
• Something the Lord Made as Mrs. Saxon
• Irreplaceable You as Mindy
• Remember Sunday as Lucy
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Annie
• Into the Wild as Lori
• Marriage Story as Cassie
• Greenberg as Gina
• The Last Face as Marlee
• Tiny Furniture as Frankie

TV

• The Wire as Prissy
• NCIS as Wendy Smith
• Godless as Mary Agnes
• Unbelievable as Detective Karen Duvall
• The Walking Dead as Denise Cloyd
• Robot Chicken as Mandy / Susan the Tauntaun (voice)
• Severance as Gretchen George
• The Gilded Age as Monica O'Brien
• Law & Order as Sunshine Porter
• Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip as Suzanne