
Merritt Wever
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.…
Filmography
1/4life
2005 · 10.0

The Wire
2002 · 8.6

Severance
2022 · 8.4

The Walking Dead
2010 · 8.1

Season of Youth
2003 · 8.0

Something the Lord Made
2004 · 8.0

Unbelievable
2019 · 7.9

Into the Wild
2007 · 7.8

Godless
2017 · 7.8

Marriage Story
2019 · 7.7

The Gilded Age
2022 · 7.7

The Good Wife
2009 · 7.6

NCIS
2003 · 7.6

Robot Chicken
2005 · 7.6

Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001 · 7.6

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
2006 · 7.5

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
2014 · 7.4

New Girl
2011 · 7.4

The Bombing of Pan Am 103
2025 · 7.3

Law & Order
1990 · 7.3

Nurse Jackie
2009 · 7.1

Remember Sunday
2013 · 7.1

Christy
2025 · 7.1

Memory
2023 · 7.0

Irreplaceable You
2018 · 7.0

Tiny Beautiful Things
2023 · 6.9

Primetime
2026 · 6.8

12 and Holding
2006 · 6.8

Michael Clayton
2007 · 6.8

The Messenger
2009 · 6.7

Signs
2002 · 6.7

The Strange Ones
2011 · 6.7

RUN
2020 · 6.5

Welcome to Marwen
2018 · 6.5

Boys On Film: Bad Romance
2011 · 6.4

Strike!
1998 · 6.4

Series 7
2001 · 6.4

Blue River
1995 · 6.2

Conviction
2006 · 6.0

Righteous Kill
2008 · 5.9

Charlie Says
2019 · 5.9

The Missing Person
2009 · 5.9

Greenberg
2010 · 5.9

Meadowland
2015 · 5.8

Roar
2022 · 5.6

Tiny Furniture
2010 · 5.6

The Last Face
2017 · 5.5

Arresting Gena
1997 · 5.5

The Adventures of Sebastian Cole
1998 · 5.3

A Hole in One
2004 · 5.0

Midday Black Midnight Blue
2022 · 4.0
The Great Beyond
2027 · 0.0