Merritt Wever
32 movies · 20 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Aug 11, 1980 (age 46)
- Place of birth
- New York, New York, USA
- Also known as
- Meritt Wever · Merrit 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.
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Known for
Merritt Wever: movies and TV shows
Acting (52)
- Upcoming
- 2026 Primetime
as Andie Bender
- 2025 Christy
as Joyce Salters
- 2025
- 2023 Memory
as Olivia
- 2023
- 2022 Midday Black Midnight Blue
as Beth
- 2022
- 2022
- 2022
- 2020
- 2019 Marriage Story
as Cassie
- 2019
- 2019 Charlie Says
as Karlene Faith
- 2018 Welcome to Marwen
as Roberta
- 2018 Irreplaceable You
as Mindy
- 2017
- 2017 The Last Face
as Marlee
- 2015 Meadowland
as Kelly
- 2014
- 2013 Remember Sunday
as Lucy
- 2011 Boys On Film: Bad Romance
as Girl (segment "The Strange Ones")
- 2011
- 2011 The Strange Ones
as Girl
- 2010 Tiny Furniture
as Frankie
- 2010
- 2010 Greenberg
as Gina
- 2009 The Messenger
as Lara
- 2009
- 2009
- 2009 The Missing Person
as Mabel Page
- 2008 Righteous Kill
as Rape Victim
- 2007 Michael Clayton
as Anna
- 2007 Into the Wild
as Lori
- 2006
- 2006 12 and Holding
as Debbie Poole
- 2006
- 2005
- 2005
- 2004 Something the Lord Made
as Mrs. Saxon
- 2004 A Hole in One
as Betty
- 2003
- 2003
- 2002 Signs
as Tracey Abernathy
- 2002
- 2001
- 2001 Series 7
as Lindsay
- 1998 The Adventures of Sebastian Cole
as Susan
- 1998 Strike!
as Maureen 'Momo' Haines
- 1997 Arresting Gena
as Tammy
- 1995 Blue River
as Lottie
- 1990
Talk shows and appearances (2)
- Upcoming
- 1996 The Daily Show
1 episode