
Merritt Wever
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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

The Good Wife

New Girl

Robot Chicken

The Walking Dead

NCIS

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

Severance

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Conviction

The Wire

Boys On Film 7: Bad Romance

Into the Wild

Michael Clayton

Righteous Kill

The Messenger

Irreplaceable You

Signs

Nurse Jackie

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Marriage Story

Tiny Beautiful Things

Something the Lord Made

Godless

Unbelievable

Lockerbie

Welcome to Marwen

Roar

Memory

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