| Merritt Wever | ||
|---|---|---|
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| Characters Myra Jennifer Taylor Hannah Price Sunshine Porter Bridget Kellner | ||
| Date of birth 11 August 1980 | ||
| Place of birth Manhattan, New York | ||
| IMDb profile |
Merritt Carmen Wever (born August 11, 1980 in Manhattan, New York) is an actress who played five different characters in Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and Conviction.
She is known for starring as a perennially upbeat young nurse Zoey Barkow in Nurse Jackie (2009–2015) with Edie Falco, Peter Facinelli, Dominic Fumusa, Paul Schulze, Stephen Wallem and Betty Gilpin; an intrepid widow Mary Agnes McNue in the Netflix period miniseries Godless (2017), and a Detective named Karen Duvall 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, 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 the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film in 2020. Also In 2020 receiving a Peabody award for Unbelievable.
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) with Adam Driver, Azhy Robertson and Julie Hagerty, all of which were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, with Birdman winning.
Appearances[]
Law & Order
- Mad Dog (1997) as Myra
- American Jihad (2002) as Jennifer Taylor
- Sects (2005) as Sunshine Porter
Law & Order: CI
- Tomorrow (2002) as Hannah Price
Conviction
- Pilot (2006) as Bridget Kellner