
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.
Awards & recognition
- Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie · 2018
- Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series · 2013
Filmography43 titles

The Wire

Severance

The Walking Dead

Unbelievable

Something the Lord Made

Into the Wild

Marriage Story

Godless

The Gilded Age

The Good Wife

Robot Chicken

NCIS

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

New Girl

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

Law & Order

Christy

Remember Sunday

Nurse Jackie

Memory

Irreplaceable You

Tiny Beautiful Things

The Messenger

Michael Clayton

12 and Holding

Signs

Run

Welcome to Marwen

All I Wanna Do!

Blue River

Conviction

Charlie Says

Greenberg

Righteous Kill

Meadowland

The Missing Person

Roar

Tiny Furniture

The Last Face

The Adventures of Sebastian Cole

A Hole in One

Midday Black Midnight Blue