Known For
Acting
Born
Aug 11, 1980
Place of Birth
New York, New York, USA
Credits
52 titles
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
The Great Beyond
Primetime
Christy
Joyce Salters
The Bombing of Pan Am 103
Kathryn Turman
Memory
Olivia
Tiny Beautiful Things
Frankie Pierce
Midday Black Midnight Blue
Beth
Roar
Elisa
Severance
Gretchen George
The Gilded Age
Monica O'Brien
RUN
Ruby Richardson
Marriage Story
Cassie
Unbelievable
Detective Karen Duvall
Charlie Says
Karlene Faith
Welcome to Marwen
Roberta
Irreplaceable You
Mindy
Godless
Mary Agnes
The Last Face
Marlee
Meadowland
Kelly
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Annie
Remember Sunday
Lucy
Boys On Film: Bad Romance
Girl (segment "The Strange Ones")
New Girl
Elizabeth
The Strange Ones
Girl
Tiny Furniture
Frankie
The Walking Dead
Denise Cloyd
Greenberg
Gina
The Messenger
Lara
The Good Wife
Aubrey Gardner
Nurse Jackie
Zoey Barkow
The Missing Person
Mabel Page
Righteous Kill
Rape Victim
Michael Clayton
Anna
Into the Wild
Lori
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Suzanne
12 and Holding
Debbie Poole
Conviction
Bridget Kellner
1/4life
Robot Chicken
Mandy / Susan the Tauntaun (voice)
Something the Lord Made
Mrs. Saxon
A Hole in One
Betty
NCIS
Wendy Smith
Season of Youth
Signs
Tracey Abernathy
The Wire
Prissy
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Hannah Price
Series 7
Lindsay
The Adventures of Sebastian Cole
Susan
Strike!
Maureen 'Momo' Haines
Arresting Gena
Tammy