Merritt Wever
Merritt Wever
Merritt Carmen Wever, known professionally as Merritt Wever, is an American actress. She is best known for her role as the perennially upbeat young 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 recently had a recurring role as Denise Cloyd on AMC's The Walking Dead...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth7 January 1980
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I wrote a lot when I was younger, though never anything like plays or scripts.
I think when you're on a show that takes place in N.Y.C. but film it in L.A. there is just a vibe that feels wrong.
I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.
Broadway is like a club I haven't been invited to, and I'm hoping that maybe they will give me a guest pass one of these days.
I think when you're on a show that takes place in N.Y.C. but film it in L.A. there is just a vibe that feels wrong.
I usually spend my free time worrying about when I'm going to work next.
Theater has always been terrifying to me.
Unfortunately, I don't think I can call myself an activist because I don't really do enough of anything.
I wish feminism wasn't so scary to people. It should be an evolving concept. I think it's an umbrella term to embrace conflicting ideas.
I do think there are trends in your life once youve been auditioning long enough. I was the angry teenager and then the sweet victim.
I went to really good New York City public schools that had arts programs. So in junior high, I got into the drama department. From there, I went to a performing arts high school in New York City called Laguardia and I just kind of fell into the professional side by happenstance.