Merritt Wever
Acting
1980-08-11 · 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.
Filmography
The Great Beyond
2027 · Movie
TheatersPrimetime
2026 · Movie
Christy
2025 · Movie
The Bombing of Pan Am 103
2025 · Series
Memory
2023 · Movie
Tiny Beautiful Things
2023 · Series
Midday Black Midnight Blue
2022 · Movie
Roar
2022 · Series
Severance
2022 · Series
The Gilded Age
2022 · Series
RUN
2020 · Series
Marriage Story
2019 · Movie
Unbelievable
2019 · Series
Charlie Says
2019 · Movie
Welcome to Marwen
2018 · Movie
Irreplaceable You
2018 · Movie
Godless
2017 · Series
The Last Face
2017 · Movie
Meadowland
2015 · Movie
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
2014 · Movie
Remember Sunday
2013 · Movie
Boys On Film: Bad Romance
2011 · Movie
New Girl
2011 · Series
The Strange Ones
2011 · Movie
Tiny Furniture
2010 · Movie
The Walking Dead
2010 · Series
Greenberg
2010 · Movie
The Messenger
2009 · Movie
The Good Wife
2009 · Series
Nurse Jackie
2009 · Series
The Missing Person
2009 · Movie
Righteous Kill
2008 · Movie
Michael Clayton
2007 · Movie
Into the Wild
2007 · Movie
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
2006 · Series
12 and Holding
2006 · Movie
Conviction
2006 · Series
1/4life
2005 · Series
Robot Chicken
2005 · Series
Something the Lord Made
2004 · Movie
A Hole in One
2004 · Movie
NCIS
2003 · Series
Season of Youth
2003 · Movie
Signs
2002 · Movie
The Wire
2002 · Series
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001 · Series
Series 7
2001 · Movie
The Adventures of Sebastian Cole
1998 · Movie
Strike!
1998 · Movie
Arresting Gena
1997 · Movie
Blue River
1995 · Movie
Law & Order
1990 · Series