Acting credits
50
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Merritt Wever
Acting
Career Snapshot
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1.8
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Movies: 31Series: 19
TMDB ID: 28044
IMDb ID: nm0923266
Known for: Acting
Born: August 11, 1980
Age: 45
Place of birth: New York, New York, USA
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1990 - 2025
Years active: 36
Average TMDB rating: 6.99
Wikidata: Q440189
Also known as
Meritt Wever • Merrit Wever • 메릿 웨버 • 梅里特・維沃 • مریت ویور
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.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Merritt Wever.
7.3
Christy
as Joyce Salters
2025 Movie
7.1
Memory
as Olivia
2023 Movie
2.0
Midday Black Midnight Blue
as Beth
2022 Movie
7.7
Marriage Story
as Cassie
2019 Movie
5.9
Charlie Says
as Karlene Faith
2019 Movie
6.5
Welcome to Marwen
as Roberta
2018 Movie
6.9
Irreplaceable You
as Mindy
2018 Movie
5.5
The Last Face
as Marlee
2017 Movie
5.8
Meadowland
as Kelly
2015 Movie
7.4
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
as Annie
2014 Movie
7.1
Remember Sunday
as Lucy
2013 Movie
6.4
Boys On Film 7: Bad Romance
as Girl (segment "The Strange Ones")
2011 Movie
6.9
The Strange Ones
as Girl
2011 Movie
5.6
Tiny Furniture
as Frankie
2010 Movie
5.9
Greenberg
as Gina
2010 Movie
6.8
The Messenger
as Lara
2009 Movie
5.8
The Missing Person
as Mabel Page
2009 Movie
5.9
Righteous Kill
as Rape Victim
2008 Movie
6.8
Michael Clayton
as Anna
2007 Movie
7.8
Into the Wild
as Lori
2007 Movie
6.8
12 and Holding
as Debbie Poole
2006 Movie
7.9
Something the Lord Made
as Mrs. Saxon
2004 Movie
4.5
A Hole in One
as Betty
2004 Movie
Season of Youth
2003 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Merritt Wever.
7.2
The Bombing of Pan Am 103
as Kathryn Turman • 6 eps
2025 Series
6.7
Tiny Beautiful Things
as Frankie Pierce • 8 eps
2023 Series
5.6
Roar
as Elisa • 1 eps
2022 Series
8.4
Severance
as Gretchen George • 4 eps
2022 Series
7.6
The Gilded Age
as Monica O'Brien • 2 eps
2022 Series
6.5
RUN
as Ruby • 7 eps
2020 Series
8.0
Unbelievable
as Detective Karen Duvall • 8 eps
2019 Series
7.7
Godless
as Mary Agnes • 7 eps
2017 Series
7.4
New Girl
as Elizabeth • 7 eps
2011 Series
8.1
The Walking Dead
as Denise Cloyd • 9 eps
2010 Series
7.6
The Good Wife
as Aubrey Gardner • 1 eps
2009 Series
7.1
Nurse Jackie
as Zoey Barkow • 80 eps
2009 Series
7.4
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
as Suzanne • 12 eps
2006 Series
5.7
Conviction
as Bridget Kellner • 1 eps
2006 Series
7.7
Robot Chicken
as Mandy / Susan the Tauntaun (voice) • 1 eps
2005 Series
7.6
NCIS
as Wendy Smith • 1 eps
2003 Series
8.6
The Wire
as Prissy • 1 eps
2002 Series
7.6
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Hannah Price • 1 eps
2001 Series
7.3
Law & Order
as Sunshine Porter • 1 eps
1990 Series