List of Famous people named Merritt

Merritt Carmen Wever 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 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 http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/unbelievable.

Merritt Patterson is a Canadian actress. She is known for playing Olivia on the short-lived Pretty Little Liars spinoff Ravenswood, and for playing Ophelia on E! network's television series The Royals.