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Merritt Wever

Acting · Born August 11, 1980 · New York, New York, USA

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.

Movies with Merritt Wever

• Primetime (2026) — Andie Bender
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) — Annie
• Into the Wild (2007) — Lori
• Marriage Story (2019) — Cassie
• Signs (2002) — Tracey Abernathy
• Righteous Kill (2008) — Rape Victim
• Michael Clayton (2007) — Anna
• Christy (2025) — Joyce Salters
• Something the Lord Made (2004) — Mrs. Saxon
• Welcome to Marwen (2018) — Roberta
• The Messenger (2009) — Lara
• The Last Face (2017) — Marlee

TV shows with Merritt Wever

• The Walking Dead (2010) — Denise Cloyd
• New Girl (2011) — Elizabeth
• Nurse Jackie (2009) — Zoey Barkow
• Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006) — Suzanne
• Unbelievable (2019) — Detective Karen Duvall
• Godless (2017) — Mary Agnes
• The Bombing of Pan Am 103 (2025) — Kathryn Turman
• Tiny Beautiful Things (2023) — Frankie Pierce