
Merritt Wever
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.
Acting (30 movies)

Signs
2002

Something the Lord Made
2004

Greenberg
2010

Irreplaceable You
2018

The Last Face
2017

Tiny Furniture
2010

Blue River
1995

Strike!
1998

Series 7: The Contenders
2001

Remember Sunday
2013

Memory
2023

The Adventures of Sebastian Cole
1998

A Hole in One
2004

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
2014

Meadowland
2015

Michael Clayton
2007

Midday Black Midnight Blue
2022

Into the Wild
2007

Righteous Kill
2008

The Missing Person
2009

Welcome to Marwen
2018

Marriage Story
2019

Charlie Says
2019

The Strange Ones
2011

Boys On Film 7: Bad Romance
2011

Arresting Gena
1997

12 and Holding
2006

The Messenger
2009

Christy
2025

Season of Youth
2003
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