Merritt Wever
Also Known As: Meritt Wever, Merrit Wever, 메릿 웨버, 梅里特・維沃, مریت ویور
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. 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), all of which were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, with Birdman winning.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York, New York, USA
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Birthday: August 11, 1980
Age: 44 years old
Gender: Female
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Signs
Overview: A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.
Genres: Drama Thriller Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-02
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Something the Lord Made
Overview: A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-30
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Greenberg
Overview: A New Yorker moves to Los Angeles in order to figure out his life while he housesits for his brother, and he soon sparks with his brother's assistant.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-26
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Irreplaceable You
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-02-16
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The Last Face
Overview: Miguel, a heroic Spanish doctor, puts himself in harm's way to deliver medical treatment to the victims of military uprisings in Africa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-01-11
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Tiny Furniture
Overview: 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 high school. Aura is directionless and wonders where to go next in her career and her life. She takes a job in a restaurant and tries unsuccessfully to develop relationships with men, including Keith, a chef where she works, and cult Internet star Jed.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-12
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Blue River
Overview: 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 self-righteous principal, Henry Howland. When Howland begins to mistreat Edward's mother, Edward's troubled older brother decides to get revenge. Now, Edward must protect his family from his brother's wrath.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-21
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Strike!
Overview: 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 plan to save their school while dealing with everyday problems along the way.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-21
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Series 7: The Contenders
Overview: 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 each other in order to be the last person alive.
Genres: Action Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-20
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Remember Sunday
Overview: 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 gets to know Gus, the more she's intrigued by him. But she's also mystified. Gus is absent-minded, preoccupied. Is he hiding something? The short answer is: yes. He's reluctant to share with her that since suffering a brain aneurysm, he's totally lost his short-term memory. Every day is a brand new day, his life starts anew. Every day he sees Molly he struggles to remember who she is and what she represents. Every day, he has to fall in love with her all over again.
Genres: TV Movie Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-21
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Memory
Overview: 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 home from their high school reunion. Their surprise encounter will profoundly impact both of them as they open the door to the past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-12-22
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The Adventures of Sebastian Cole
Overview: 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 getting a sex change operation. The family deserts Hank, with Jessica going her own way and Sebastian staying with his mom. But Joan becomes an alcoholic, so Sebastian moves back in with Hank — now Henrietta — who turns out to be far more supportive than anyone else.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-11
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A Hole in One
Overview: A gangster makes an employee pose as a doctor to prevent his troubled girlfriend from getting a lobotomy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-02
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Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Overview: 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 approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, rebuild his career, and reconnect with friends and family prove more difficult than expected.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-17
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Meadowland
Overview: In the hazy aftermath of an unimaginable loss, Sarah and Phil come unhinged, recklessly ignoring the repercussions. Phil starts to lose sight of his morals as Sarah puts herself in increasingly dangerous situations, falling deeper into her own fever dream.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-16
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Michael Clayton
Overview: 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 in a multi-billion dollar class action suit.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-28
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Midday Black Midnight Blue
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-04-21
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Into the Wild
Overview: After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity, and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-21
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Righteous Kill
Overview: 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; is there a serial killer on the loose, and did they perhaps put the wrong person behind bars?
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-11
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The Missing Person
Overview: 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 he's never met to follow a middle-aged male subject on the soon-departing California Zephyr train to Los Angeles.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-16
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Welcome to Marwen
Overview: When a devastating attack shatters Mark Hogancamp and wipes away all memories, no one expected recovery. Putting together pieces from his old and new life, Mark meticulously creates a wondrous town named Marwen where he can heal and be heroic. As he builds an astonishing art installation — a testament to the most powerful women he knows — through his fantasy world, he draws strength to triumph in the real one.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-12-21
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Marriage Story
Overview: A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-28
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Charlie Says
Overview: Three young women were sentenced to death in the infamous Manson murder case, but when the death penalty was lifted, their sentence became life imprisonment. One young graduate student was sent in to teach them – and through her we witness their transformations as they face the reality of their horrific crimes.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-10
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The Strange Ones
Overview: 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 seems to be. Short film not to be confused with the 2017 feature film with the same name.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-20
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Boys On Film 7: Bad Romance
Overview: 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, including: Alain Hain's "Curious Thing" starring Danny Bernardy and Matthew Wilkas; Christoph Scheermann's "Cake and Sand" starring Bartholomew Sammut and Jan Andreesen; Michael Rozanov's "Watch Over Me" starring Guy Kapulnik and Davidi Hoffman; Joachim Back's "The New Tenants" starring David Rakoff and Jamie Harrold; Kim Jho Gwang-soo's "Just Friends?" starring Lee Je-hoon and Yeon Woo-jin; Étienne Desrosiers's "Mirrors" starring Xavier Dolan, Stéphane Demers, and Julie Beauchemin; Christopher Banks's "Communication" starring Rudi Vodanovich and Alexander Campbell; Tomer Velkoff's "The Traitor" co-starring Shmulik Goldstein; Christopher Radcliff and Lauren Wolkstein's "The Strange Ones" starring David Call, Tobias Campbell, and Merritt Wever; and Tamer Ruggli's "Cappuccino" starring Benjamin Décosterd and Manuela Biedermann.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-26
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Arresting Gena
Overview: A directionless teenager (Aesha Waks) becomes involved with a headstrong runaway (Summer Phoenix) and her drug-dealing brother (Sam Rockwell).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-27
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12 and Holding
Overview: Three pre-adolescents with virginal and eager-of-signals naivety, hit headlong against monstrous and inhospitable loneliness, in the incandescent fire among the ashes of their own inocence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-31
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The Messenger
Overview: 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 partnered with Captain Tony Stone, to give notice to the families of fallen soldiers. The Sergeant is drawn to Olivia Pitterson, to whom he has delivered news of her husband’s death.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-13
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Untitled Christy Martin Biopic
Overview: 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, Christy’s life transformed in 1989 when she met her manager and later husband, Jim Martin. Breaking boundaries, she became the first woman to sign with iconic promoter Don King and the only female boxer to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Christy’s charisma, good looks, and unwavering resilience in the ring won her a wide fan base and propelled her to become welterweight champion. Behind this well-honed public persona, Christy tackled personal demons, toxic relationships, and an attempt on her life, proving that a fighter’s hardest-won victories aren’t always in the ring.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
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the revolution
Overview: Experimental film. Political drama. 1960s activists rethink their tactics and personal alliances as the Vietnam War and civil unrest at home escalate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Primetime
Overview: A journalist takes on an underworld of crime and changes television forever.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
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Season of Youth
Overview: Obsessed with the notion that all African-Americans are not only inferior but also criminals, privileged prep school student Taylor (Jonathan Bennett) begins desperately stalking a black classmate named Flint, waiting for him to prove his racist theory right. But when Flint strikes up a relationship with Taylor's sister, Matty, Taylor's hatred takes a violent turn. Ethan Cohn, Jim Gaffigan, Jesse L. Martin and Ernest Waddell co-star.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-01
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