Merritt Wever

Merritt Wever

1980-08-11 New York, New York, USA 32 Credits

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...

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Memory

Memory

2023

as Olivia

7.1
Acting

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

Midday Black Midnight Blue

2022

as Beth

2.5
Acting

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

Marriage Story

2019

as Cassie

7.7
Acting

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

Charlie Says

Charlie Says

2019

as Karlene Faith

6.0
Acting

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

Welcome to Marwen

2018

as Roberta

6.5
Acting

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

Irreplaceable You

2018

as Mindy

7.0
Acting

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

The Last Face

2017

as Marlee

5.6
Acting

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

Meadowland

Meadowland

2015

as Kelly

5.8
Acting

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)

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

2014

as Annie

7.5
Acting

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

Remember Sunday

2013

as Lucy

7.1
Acting

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

Boys On Film 7: Bad Romance

2011

as Girl (segment "The Strange Ones")

6.4
Acting

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

The Strange Ones

2011

as Girl

6.9
Acting

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

Tiny Furniture

2010

as Frankie

5.7
Acting

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

Greenberg

2010

as Gina

5.9
Acting

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

The Messenger

2009

as Lara

6.8
Acting

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

The Missing Person

2009

as Mabel Page

5.6
Acting

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

Righteous Kill

2008

as Rape Victim

5.9
Acting

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

Michael Clayton

2007

as Anna

6.8
Acting

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

Into the Wild

2007

as Lori

7.8
Acting

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

12 and Holding

2006

as Debbie Poole

6.9
Acting

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

Something the Lord Made

2004

as Mrs. Saxon

7.7
Acting

A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.

A Hole in One

A Hole in One

2004

as Betty

4.5
Acting

A gangster makes an employee pose as a doctor to prevent his troubled girlfriend from getting a lobotomy.

Season of Youth

Season of Youth

2003

Acting

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

Signs

Signs

2002

as Tracey Abernathy

6.7
Acting

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

Series 7: The Contenders

Series 7: The Contenders

2001

as Lindsay

6.3
Acting

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

The Adventures of Sebastian Cole

1998

as Susan

5.1
Acting

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!

Strike!

1998

as Maureen 'Momo' Haines

6.3
Acting

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

Arresting Gena

1997

as Tammy

1.0
Acting

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

Blue River

Blue River

1995

as Lottie

5.9
Acting

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

Untitled Christy Martin Biopic

N/A

as Joyce Salters

Acting

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

the revolution

N/A

as Dorothy

Acting

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

Acting

A journalist takes on an underworld of crime and changes television forever.