Merritt Wever is an Emmy Award-winning actress known for her role as the nurse Zoey Barkow in "Nurse Jackie," for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2013. She also played a lead role in the Netflix limited series "Godless," which earned her the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie in 2018.

She has also had supporting roles as Suzanne in "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip," Elizabeth in "New Girl," and as Denise Cloyd in "The Walking Dead." Wever has also played supporting roles in such films as Michael Clayton, Tiny Furniture and Birdman.

In 2019, Wever portrayed a detective investigating a serial rapist in the Netflix true crime miniseries "Unbelievable" alongside actress Kaitlyn Dever. That same year, she played Cassie in Noah Baumbach's film Marriage Story, which starred Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver.

Wever was born and raised in the Manhattan burough of New York City. She is the daughter of a single mother, and was conceived via a sperm donor.

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