Merritt Wever
Birthday: 1980-08-11 | Place of Birth: New York, New York, USAMerritt 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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as Gretchen George
as Joyce Salters
as Kathryn Turman
as Frankie Pierce
as Olivia
as Beth
as Ruby
as Cassie
as Detective Karen Duvall
as Karlene Faith
as Roberta
as Marlee
as Mary Agnes
as Kelly
as Lucy
as Girl
as Frankie
as Gina
as Zoey Barkow
as Betty
as Mrs. Saxon
as Monica Greenfield
as Tracey Abernathy
