Merritt Wever

Biography

Merritt Carmen Wever is an American actress. She is known for her role as the perennially upbeat young nurse Zoey Barkow in Nurse Jackie (2009–2015), for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2013; for a lead role in the Netflix limited series Godless; and for her supporting roles as Suzanne in Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006–2007), as Elizabeth in New Girl (2013), and as Denise Cloyd in The Walking Dead (2015–2016). Wever has also played supporting roles in such films as Michael Clayton (2007), Tiny Furniture (2010), and Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014).