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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 11, 1980
Place of Birth
New York, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Meritt Wever
- Merrit Wever
- 메릿 웨버
- 梅里特・維沃
- مریت ویور
Merritt Wever
1.4 Popularity
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
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Kathryn Turman
The Bombing of Pan Am 103
2025
7.1
Olivia
Memory
2023
6.8
Frankie Pierce
Tiny Beautiful Things
2023
2.5
Beth
Midday Black Midnight Blue
2022
5.7
Elisa
Roar
2022
8.4
Gretchen George
Severance
2022
6.5
Ruby
RUN
2020
7.7
Cassie
Marriage Story
2019
8.0
Detective Karen Duvall
Unbelievable
2019
6.0
Karlene Faith
Charlie Says
2019
Credits
The Bombing of Pan Am 103
as Kathryn Turman
2025
0.0
Memory
as Olivia
2023
7.1
Tiny Beautiful Things
as Frankie Pierce
2023
6.8
Midday Black Midnight Blue
as Beth
2022
2.5
Roar
as Elisa
2022
5.7
Severance
as Gretchen George
2022
8.4
RUN
as Ruby
2020
6.5
Marriage Story
as Cassie
2019
7.7
Unbelievable
as Detective Karen Duvall
2019
8.0
Charlie Says
as Karlene Faith
2019
6.0
Welcome to Marwen
as Roberta
2018
6.5
Irreplaceable You
as Mindy
2018
7.0
Godless
as Mary Agnes
2017
7.8
The Last Face
as Marlee
2017
5.6
Meadowland
as Kelly
2015
5.8
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
as Annie
2014
7.5
Remember Sunday
as Lucy
2013
7.1
Boys On Film 7: Bad Romance
as Girl (segment "The Strange Ones")
2011
6.4
New Girl
as Elizabeth
2011
7.4
The Strange Ones
as Girl
2011
6.9
Tiny Furniture
as Frankie
2010
5.7
The Walking Dead
as Denise Cloyd
2010
8.1
Greenberg
as Gina
2010
5.9
The Messenger
as Lara
2009
6.7
The Good Wife
as Aubrey Gardner
2009
7.6
Nurse Jackie
as Zoey Barkow
2009
7.1
The Missing Person
as Mabel Page
2009
5.6
Righteous Kill
as Rape Victim
2008
5.9
Michael Clayton
as Anna
2007
6.8
Into the Wild
as Lori
2007
7.8
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
as Suzanne
2006
7.3
12 and Holding
as Debbie Poole
2006
6.9
Conviction
as Bridget Kellner
2006
5.7
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1/4life
2005
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Robot Chicken
as Mandy / Susan the Tauntaun (voice)
2005
7.6
Something the Lord Made
as Mrs. Saxon
2004
7.7
A Hole in One
as Betty
2004
4.5
NCIS
as Wendy Smith
2003
7.6
Season of Youth
2003
0.0
Signs
as Tracey Abernathy
2002
6.7
The Wire
as Prissy
2002
8.6
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Hannah Price
2001
7.6
Series 7: The Contenders
as Lindsay
2001
6.3
The Adventures of Sebastian Cole
as Susan
1998
5.1
Strike!
as Maureen 'Momo' Haines
1998
6.4
Arresting Gena
as Tammy
1997
1.0
Blue River
as Lottie
1995
5.9
Law & Order
as Sunshine Porter
1990
7.4
Law & Order
as Myra
1990
7.4
Law & Order
as Jennifer Taylor
1990
7.4
Untitled Christy Martin Biopic
as Joyce Salters
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Primetime
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the revolution
as Dorothy
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