Merritt Wever

Known for ActingBorn 1980-08-11 (age 45)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. 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.Read more

Movies & web series

1/4life

The Wire

Severance

The Walking Dead

Unbelievable

Season of Youth

Something the Lord Made

Marriage Story

Godless

The Gilded Age

Into the Wild

The Good Wife

NCIS

Robot Chicken

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

New Girl

The Bombing of Pan Am 103

Christy

Memory

Remember Sunday

Law & Order

Nurse Jackie

Irreplaceable You

The Strange Ones

Tiny Beautiful Things

Michael Clayton

12 and Holding

The Messenger

Signs

RUN

Welcome to Marwen

Boys On Film: Bad Romance

Strike!

Blue River

Series 7

Charlie Says

Conviction

Greenberg

Righteous Kill

Meadowland

The Missing Person

Roar

The Last Face

Tiny Furniture

Arresting Gena

The Adventures of Sebastian Cole