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 Outstandin...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Memory
2023
as Olivia
Sylvia is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life: her daughter, her job, her AA meetings. This is blown open when Saul follows her hom...

Midday Black Midnight Blue
2022
as Beth
On Whidbey Island, a grieving man is haunted by his memories and spirals closer to a breakdown two decades after the death of the woman he loved.

Marriage Story
2019
as Cassie
A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.

Charlie Says
2019
as Karlene Faith
Three young women were sentenced to death in the infamous Manson murder case, but when the death penalty was lifted, their sentence became life impris...

Welcome to Marwen
2018
as Roberta
When a devastating attack shatters Mark Hogancamp and wipes away all memories, no one expected recovery. Putting together pieces from his old and new ...

Irreplaceable You
2018
as Mindy
A stunning cancer diagnosis spurs Abbie to seek a future girlfriend for fiancé and childhood sweetheart Sam, who's clueless when it comes to dating.

The Last Face
2017
as Marlee
Miguel, a heroic Spanish doctor, puts himself in harm's way to deliver medical treatment to the victims of military uprisings in Africa.

Meadowland
2015
as Kelly
In the hazy aftermath of an unimaginable loss, Sarah and Phil come unhinged, recklessly ignoring the repercussions. Phil starts to lose sight of his ...

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
2014
as Annie
A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night appr...

Remember Sunday
2013
as Lucy
A lonely, down-on-her-luck waitress meets a handsome, quirky jewelry store clerk and thinks that maybe, finally, she's met Mr. Right. The more Molly g...

Boys On Film 7: Bad Romance
2011
as Girl (segment "The Strange Ones")
Experience an alternative take on attraction with Boys On Film. Bad Romance explores the darker side with a collection of edgy and sexy short films, i...

The Strange Ones
2011
as Girl
A man and a boy, traveling to an unknown destination, find respite in a motel swimming pool. On the surface all seems normal, but nothing is what it s...

Tiny Furniture
2010
as Frankie
After graduating from film school, Aura returns to New York to live with her photographer mother, Siri, and her sister, Nadine, who has just finished ...

Greenberg
2010
as Gina
Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller), a failed musician now making a living as a carpenter in New York, returns to Los Angeles to house-sit for his brother (...

The Messenger
2009
as Lara
Will Montgomery, a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant who has returned home from Iraq, is assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification service. Montgomery is pa...

The Missing Person
2009
as Mabel Page
John Rosow drinks to forget. He is a former New York City cop turned Chicago-based private investigator. At the last minute, he is hired by someone h...

Righteous Kill
2008
as Rape Victim
Two veteran New York City detectives work to identify the possible connection between a recent murder and a case they believe they solved years ago; i...

Michael Clayton
2007
as Anna
A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty ...

Into the Wild
2007
as Lori
After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savi...

12 and Holding
2006
as Debbie Poole
Three pre-adolescents with virginal and eager-of-signals naivety, hit headlong against monstrous and inhospitable loneliness, in the incandescent fire...

Something the Lord Made
2004
as Mrs. Saxon
A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.

A Hole in One
2004
as Betty
A gangster makes an employee pose as a doctor to prevent his troubled girlfriend from getting a lobotomy.

Season of Youth
2003
Obsessed with the notion that all African-Americans are not only inferior but also criminals, privileged prep school student Taylor (Jonathan Bennett)...

Signs
2002
as Tracey Abernathy
A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.

Series 7: The Contenders
2001
as Lindsay
A reality TV program selects six contestants to participate in a free-for-all, no holds barred deathmatch, where they must skillfully outwit and kill ...

The Adventures of Sebastian Cole
1998
as Susan
Hank marries the divorced Joan, who's the mother of teens Sebastian and Jessica. After living with his new family for years, Hank announces that he's ...

Strike!
1998
as Maureen 'Momo' Haines
In the 1960s, a group of friends at an all girls school learn that their school is going to be combined with a nearby all boys school. They concoct a ...

Arresting Gena
1997
as Tammy
A directionless teenager (Aesha Waks) becomes involved with a headstrong runaway (Summer Phoenix) and her drug-dealing brother (Sam Rockwell).

Blue River
1995
as Lottie
Edward's father walked out on his family years ago. In the years since, his mother has become a fundamentalist Christian and fallen for the school's s...

Untitled Christy Martin Biopic
N/A
as Joyce Salters
The true story of formidable Christy Martin, who rose to fame as America’s most successful female boxer in the 1990s. A naturally gifted fighter, Chri...

the revolution
N/A
as Dorothy
Experimental film. Political drama. 1960s activists rethink their tactics and personal alliances as the Vietnam War and civil unrest at home escalate.
Primetime
N/A
A journalist takes on an underworld of crime and changes television forever.