Merritt Wever

Merritt Wever
Wever in 2010
Born
Merritt Carmen Wever

(1980-08-11) August 11, 1980 (age 44)
New York City, U.S.
Alma materSarah Lawrence College
OccupationActress
Years active1995–present

Merritt Carmen Wever[1] (born August 11, 1980)[2][3] is an American actress. She played perennially upbeat young nurse Zoey 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, Wever 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 Unbelievable she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film in 2020.[4]

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).

  1. ^ "PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: 'Nurse Jackie' and The Illusion Star Merritt Wever". Playbill. June 21, 2011. Archived from the original on February 24, 2019. Retrieved February 23, 2019.
  2. ^ "Merritt Wever". Golden Globe Awards. Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Archived from the original on November 4, 2020. Retrieved August 31, 2020.
  3. ^ "Merritt Wever: Movies, TV, and Bio". Prime Video. Amazon. Archived from the original on November 4, 2020. Retrieved August 31, 2020.
  4. ^ "Unbelievable". www.peabodyawards.com. Archived from the original on May 8, 2020. Retrieved February 9, 2021.