Actor
Wrenn Schmidt
Born February 18, 1983 in Lexington, South Carolina, USA12 films
Melinda Wrenn Schmidt (born February 18, 1983) is an American actress. She is best known for her starring role as NASA engineer, flight director, and later director of NASA Margo Madison in the Apple TV+ original science-fiction space drama series For All Mankind. Her other television roles include Julia Sagorsky in the period drama series Boardwalk Empire (2012–2013), KGB handler Kate in the spy drama series The Americans (2014), Dr Iris Campbell on the thriller series Person of Interest (2014–2016), and Megan Holter in the horror series Outcast (2016–2018).[5] Her film roles include the horror film Preservation (2014), the biographical drama I Saw the Light (2015), the war film 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016), the romantic comedy, The Good Catholic (2017), and the science-fiction horror film Nope (2022).
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First watchNuremberg20257.6as Elsie DouglasIn postwar Germany, an American psychiatrist must determine whether Nazi prisoners are fit to go on trial for war crimes, and finds himself in a complex battle of intellect and ethics with…View filmEssential films
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12 films as actor- 2026ImprintFlora
- 2025NurembergElsie Douglas
- 2025XenoLinda
- 2025StitchesGillian
- 2023The Starling GirlHeidi Starling
- 2022NopeAmber Park
- 2017The Good CatholicJane
- 2016I Saw the LightBobbie Jett
- 201613 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of BenghaziBecky Silva
- 2014PreservationWit Neary
- 2013How to Follow StrangersShelly
- 2011Our Idiot BrotherBeth