Merritt Wever
Acting
- Born
- August 11, 1980
- Place of Birth
- New York, New York, USA
- Known For
- Женский
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.
Filmography
NCIS
as Wendy Smith
2003
Law & Order
as Myra, as Jennifer Taylor, as Sunshine Porter
1990
The Walking Dead
as Denise Cloyd
2010
The Good Wife
as Aubrey Gardner
2009
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Hannah Price
2001
New Girl
as Elizabeth
2011
Robot Chicken
as Mandy / Susan the Tauntaun (voice)
2005
The Wire
as Prissy
2002
Nurse Jackie
as Zoey Barkow
2009
Severance
as Gretchen George (voice) (uncredited), as Gretchen George
2022
The Gilded Age
as Monica O'Brien
2022
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
as Suzanne
2006
Unbelievable
as Detective Karen Duvall
2019
Roar
as Elisa
2022
Godless
as Mary Agnes
2017
The Bombing of Pan Am 103
as Kathryn Turman
2025
Tiny Beautiful Things
as Frankie Pierce
2023
RUN
as Ruby Richardson
2020