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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |