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