Merritt Wever
Acting • Born 1980-08-11
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
54 credits
Signs
Movie • 2002
Tracey Abernathy
Something the Lord Made
Movie • 2004
Mrs. Saxon
Greenberg
Movie • 2010
Gina
Irreplaceable You
Movie • 2018
Mindy
The Last Face
Movie • 2017
Marlee
Tiny Furniture
Movie • 2010
Frankie
Blue River
Movie • 1995
Lottie
Strike!
Movie • 1998
Maureen 'Momo' Haines
Series 7: The Contenders
Movie • 2001
Lindsay
Remember Sunday
Movie • 2013
Lucy
Memory
Movie • 2023
Olivia
The Adventures of Sebastian Cole
Movie • 1998
Susan
A Hole in One
Movie • 2004
Betty
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Movie • 2014
Annie
Meadowland
Movie • 2015
Kelly
Michael Clayton
Movie • 2007
Anna
Midday Black Midnight Blue
Movie • 2022
Beth
Into the Wild
Movie • 2007
Lori
Righteous Kill
Movie • 2008
Rape Victim
The Missing Person
Movie • 2009
Mabel Page
Welcome to Marwen
Movie • 2018
Roberta
Marriage Story
Movie • 2019
Cassie
Charlie Says
Movie • 2019
Karlene Faith
The Strange Ones
Movie • 2011
Girl
Boys On Film: Bad Romance
Movie • 2011
Girl (segment "The Strange Ones")
Arresting Gena
Movie • 1997
Tammy
12 and Holding
Movie • 2006
Debbie Poole
The Messenger
Movie • 2009
Lara
Christy
Movie • 2025
Joyce Salters
Primetime
Movie
Season of Youth
Movie • 2003
The Great Beyond
Movie • 2026
Law & Order
TV • 1990
Sunshine Porter
The Wire
TV • 2002
Prissy
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
TV • 2006
Suzanne
NCIS
TV • 2003
Wendy Smith
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
TV • 2001
Hannah Price
Nurse Jackie
TV • 2009
Zoey Barkow
New Girl
TV • 2011
Elizabeth
Godless
TV • 2017
Mary Agnes
Roar
TV • 2022
Elisa
Law & Order
TV • 1990
Myra
1/4life
TV • 2005
Law & Order
TV • 1990
Jennifer Taylor
RUN
TV • 2020
Ruby
The Bombing of Pan Am 103
TV • 2025
Kathryn Turman
Unbelievable
TV • 2019
Detective Karen Duvall
Conviction
TV • 2006
Bridget Kellner
The Walking Dead
TV • 2010
Denise Cloyd
Robot Chicken
TV • 2005
Mandy / Susan the Tauntaun (voice)
The Good Wife
TV • 2009
Aubrey Gardner
Tiny Beautiful Things
TV • 2023
Frankie Pierce
Severance
TV • 2022
Gretchen George
The Gilded Age
TV • 2022
Monica O'Brien