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Merritt Carmen Wever 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 miniseries Unbelievable (2019). For Nurse Jackie, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2013 and for Godless, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie.
Born
Monday, 11 August 1980
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Memory | Olivia | 2023 |
| Midday Black Midnight Blue | Beth | 2023 |
| Tiny Beautiful Things | Frankie Pierce / Frankie | 2023 |
| Roar | Elisa | 2022 |
| Run | Ruby Richardson / Ruby | 2020 |
| Marriage Story | Cassie | 2019 |
| Unbelievable | Detective Karen Duvall | 2019 |
| Charlie Says | Karlene Faith | 2019 |
| Welcome to Marwen | Roberta | 2018 |
| Irreplaceable You | Mindy | 2018 |
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Memory | Olivia | 2023 |
| Midday Black Midnight Blue | Beth | 2023 |
| Tiny Beautiful Things | Frankie Pierce / Frankie | 2023 |
| Roar | Elisa | 2022 |
| Run | Ruby Richardson / Ruby | 2020 |
| Marriage Story | Cassie | 2019 |
| Unbelievable | Detective Karen Duvall | 2019 |
| Charlie Says | Karlene Faith | 2019 |
| Welcome to Marwen | Roberta | 2018 |
| Irreplaceable You | Mindy | 2018 |
| Godless | Mary Agnes | 2017 |
| The Last Face | Marlee | 2017 |
| Meadowland | Kelly | 2015 |
| Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) | Annie | 2014 |
| Remember Sunday | Lucy | 2013 |
| New Girl | Elizabeth | 2011 |
| The Strange Ones | Girl | 2011 |
| Tiny Furniture | Frankie | 2010 |
| The Walking Dead | Denise Cloyd | 2010 |
| Greenberg | Gina | 2010 |
| The Messenger | Lara | 2009 |
| The Good Wife | Aubrey Gardner | 2009 |
| Nurse Jackie | Zoey Barkow | 2009 |
| The Missing Person | Mabel Page | 2009 |
| Righteous Kill | Rape Victim | 2008 |
| Neal Cassady | Mountain Girl | 2007 |
| Michael Clayton | Anna | 2007 |
| Into the Wild | Lori | 2007 |
| Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip | Suzanne | 2006 |
| 12 and Holding | Debbie Poole | 2006 |
| Conviction | Bridget Kellner | 2006 |
| Something the Lord Made | Mrs. Saxon | 2004 |
| A Hole in One | Betty | 2004 |
| NCIS | Wendy Smith | 2003 |
| Bringing Rain | Monica Greenfield | 2003 |
| Season of Youth | 2003 | |
| Signs | Tracey Abernathy | 2002 |
| The Wire | Prissy | 2002 |
| Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Hannah Price | 2001 |
| Series 7: The Contenders | Lindsay | 2001 |
| Robot Chicken | Mandy / Susan the Tauntaun | 2001 |
| The Adventures of Sebastian Cole | Susan | 1998 |
| Strike! | Maureen 'Momo' Haines | 1998 |
| Arresting Gena | Tammy | 1997 |
| Blue River | Lottie | 1995 |
| Law & Order | Sunshine Porter / Myra / Jennifer Taylor | 1990 |
| Year | Type | Category | Won |
|---|
| 2023 | Emmy | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie | Nominated |
| 2020 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television | Nominated |
| 2018 | Emmy | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie | Won |
| 2013 | Emmy | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series | Won |
| 2012 | Emmy | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series | Nominated |
