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Merritt Wever

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

Filmography

as Kathryn Turman
2023 Memory
as Olivia
as Frankie Pierce
2022 Roar
as Elisa
2022 Severance
as Gretchen George
as Monica O'Brien
2020 RUN
as Ruby
as Cassie
as Detective Karen Duvall
as Karlene Faith
as Roberta
as Mindy
2017 Godless
as Mary Agnes
as Marlee
2015 Meadowland
as Kelly
as Lucy
as Girl (segment "The Strange Ones")
2011 New Girl
as Elizabeth