Acting
Merritt Wever
EN cinema · 33 credits
Born
11 August 1980 (age 46)
Birthplace
New York, New York, USA
Also known as Meritt Wever · Merrit Wever
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
Primetime
as Andie Bender
Christy
as Joyce Salters
Memory
as Olivia
Marriage Story
as Cassie
Charlie Says
as Karlene Faith
Irreplaceable You
as Mindy
Welcome to Marwen
as Roberta
The Last Face
as Marlee
Meadowland
as Kelly
Remember Sunday
as Lucy
The Strange Ones
as Girl
Boys On Film: Bad Romance
as Girl (segment "The Strange Ones")
Greenberg
as Gina
Tiny Furniture
as Frankie
The Missing Person
as Mabel Page
The Messenger
as Lara
Righteous Kill
as Rape Victim
Michael Clayton
as Anna
Into the Wild
as Lori
12 and Holding
as Debbie Poole
Something the Lord Made
as Mrs. Saxon
A Hole in One
as Betty
Signs
as Tracey Abernathy
Series 7
as Lindsay
Strike!
as Maureen 'Momo' Haines
Arresting Gena
as Tammy
Blue River
as Lottie