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Merritt Wever
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…
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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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2027
The Great Beyond
Movie
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2026
Primetime
Movie Andie Bender
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2025
Christy
Movie Joyce Salters
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2025
The Bombing of Pan Am 103
TV show Kathryn Turman
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2023
Memory
Movie Olivia
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2023
Tiny Beautiful Things
TV show Frankie Pierce
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2022
Midday Black Midnight Blue
Movie Beth
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2022
Roar
TV show Elisa
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2022
Severance
TV show Gretchen George
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2022
The Gilded Age
TV show Monica O'Brien
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2020
RUN
TV show Ruby Richardson
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2019
Marriage Story
Movie Cassie
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2019
Unbelievable
TV show Detective Karen Duvall
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2019
Charlie Says
Movie Karlene Faith
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2018
Welcome to Marwen
Movie Roberta
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2018
Irreplaceable You
Movie Mindy
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2017
Godless
TV show Mary Agnes
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2017
The Last Face
Movie Marlee
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2015
Meadowland
Movie Kelly
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2014
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Movie Annie
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2013
Remember Sunday
Movie Lucy
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2011
Boys On Film: Bad Romance
Movie Girl (segment "The Strange Ones")
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2011
New Girl
TV show Elizabeth
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2011
The Strange Ones
Movie Girl
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2010
Tiny Furniture
Movie Frankie
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2010
The Walking Dead
TV show Denise Cloyd
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2010
Greenberg
Movie Gina
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2009
The Messenger
Movie Lara
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2009
The Good Wife
TV show Aubrey Gardner
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2009
Nurse Jackie
TV show Zoey Barkow
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2009
The Missing Person
Movie Mabel Page
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2008
Righteous Kill
Movie Rape Victim
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2007
Michael Clayton
Movie Anna
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2007
Into the Wild
Movie Lori
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2006
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
TV show Suzanne
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2006
12 and Holding
Movie Debbie Poole
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2006
Conviction
TV show Bridget Kellner
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2005
1/4life
TV show
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2005
Robot Chicken
TV show Mandy / Susan the Tauntaun (voice)
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2004
Something the Lord Made
Movie Mrs. Saxon
