
Merritt Wever
Acting
Born: 1980-08-11 ยท New York, New York, USA
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 (2009โ2015), 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 Outstandin
๐ฌ Movies (20)

The Great Beyond
2026

Primetime
2026

Christy
2025
Joyce Salters

Memory
2023
Olivia

Midday Black Midnight Blue
2022
Beth

Marriage Story
2019
Cassie

Charlie Says
2019
Karlene Faith

Welcome to Marwen
2018
Roberta

Irreplaceable You
2018
Mindy

The Last Face
2017
Marlee

Meadowland
2015
Kelly

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
2014
Annie

Remember Sunday
2013
Lucy

Boys On Film: Bad Romance
2011
Girl (segment "The Strange Ones")

The Strange Ones
2011
Girl

Tiny Furniture
2010
Frankie

Greenberg
2010
Gina

The Messenger
2009
Lara

The Missing Person
2009
Mabel Page

Righteous Kill
2008
Rape Victim
๐บ TV Shows (20)

The Bombing of Pan Am 103
2025
Kathryn Turman

Tiny Beautiful Things
2023
Frankie Pierce

Roar
2022
Elisa

Severance
2022
Gretchen George

Severance
2022
Gretchen George (voice) (uncredited)

The Gilded Age
2022
Monica O'Brien

RUN
2020
Ruby Richardson

Unbelievable
2019
Detective Karen Duvall

Godless
2017
Mary Agnes

New Girl
2011
Elizabeth

The Walking Dead
2010
Denise Cloyd

The Good Wife
2009
Aubrey Gardner

Nurse Jackie
2009
Zoey Barkow

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
2006
Suzanne

Conviction
2006
Bridget Kellner
1/4life
2005

Robot Chicken
2005
Mandy / Susan the Tauntaun (voice)

NCIS
2003
Wendy Smith

The Wire
2002
Prissy

Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
Hannah Price