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.

Most Known For

Law & Order

as Sunshine Porter

Law & Order

as Myra

Law & Order

as Jennifer Taylor

NCIS

as Wendy Smith

The Walking Dead

as Denise Cloyd

The Good Wife

as Aubrey Gardner

Severance

as Gretchen George

The Wire

as Prissy

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

as Hannah Price

New Girl

as Elizabeth

Robot Chicken

as Mandy / Susan the Tauntaun (voice)

The Gilded Age

as Monica O'Brien

Nurse Jackie

as Zoey Barkow

Godless

as Mary Agnes

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

as Annie

Christy

as Joyce Salters

Into the Wild

as Lori

Unbelievable

as Detective Karen Duvall

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

as Suzanne

Roar

as Elisa