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.

Known For

Law & Order

NCIS

The Walking Dead

The Good Wife

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

New Girl

All Movies (32)

The Great Beyond2026
Primetime2026
Christy2025 · as Joyce Salters
Memory2023 · as Olivia
Midday Black Midnight Blue2022 · as Beth
Marriage Story2019 · as Cassie
Charlie Says2019 · as Karlene Faith
Welcome to Marwen2018 · as Roberta
Irreplaceable You2018 · as Mindy
The Last Face2017 · as Marlee
Meadowland2015 · as Kelly
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)2014 · as Annie
Remember Sunday2013 · as Lucy
Boys On Film: Bad Romance2011 · as Girl (segment "The Strange Ones")
The Strange Ones2011 · as Girl
Tiny Furniture2010 · as Frankie
Greenberg2010 · as Gina
The Messenger2009 · as Lara
The Missing Person2009 · as Mabel Page
Righteous Kill2008 · as Rape Victim
Michael Clayton2007 · as Anna
Into the Wild2007 · as Lori
12 and Holding2006 · as Debbie Poole
Something the Lord Made2004 · as Mrs. Saxon
A Hole in One2004 · as Betty
Season of Youth2003
Signs2002 · as Tracey Abernathy
Series 72001 · as Lindsay
The Adventures of Sebastian Cole1998 · as Susan
Strike!1998 · as Maureen 'Momo' Haines
Arresting Gena1997 · as Tammy
Blue River1995 · as Lottie

All TV Shows (23)

The Bombing of Pan Am 1032025 · as Kathryn Turman
Tiny Beautiful Things2023 · as Frankie Pierce
Roar2022 · as Elisa
Severance2022 · as Gretchen George
Severance2022 · as Gretchen George (voice) (uncredited)
The Gilded Age2022 · as Monica O'Brien
RUN2020 · as Ruby Richardson
Unbelievable2019 · as Detective Karen Duvall
Godless2017 · as Mary Agnes
New Girl2011 · as Elizabeth
The Walking Dead2010 · as Denise Cloyd
The Good Wife2009 · as Aubrey Gardner
Nurse Jackie2009 · as Zoey Barkow
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip2006 · as Suzanne
Conviction2006 · as Bridget Kellner
1/4life2005
Robot Chicken2005 · as Mandy / Susan the Tauntaun (voice)
NCIS2003 · as Wendy Smith
The Wire2002 · as Prissy
Law & Order: Criminal Intent2001 · as Hannah Price
Law & Order1990 · as Sunshine Porter
Law & Order1990 · as Myra
Law & Order1990 · as Jennifer Taylor