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Wrenn Schmidt

Acting

Biography

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).

Born: February 18, 1983

Place of Birth: Lexington, South Carolina, USA

Filmography

2025
Nuremberg

as Elsie Douglas

2025
Xeno

as Linda

2025
Stitches

as Gillian

2023
The Starling Girl

as Heidi Starling

2022
Nope

as Amber Park

2019
For All Mankind

as Margo Madison

2018
The Looming Tower

as Diane Priest

2016
Outcast

as Megan Holter

2016
I Saw the Light

as Bobbie Jett

2014
Preservation

as Wit Neary

2013
2012
Elementary

as Cashier / Ellory

2012
Elementary

as Ellory

2011
Person of Interest

as Iris Campbell

2011
Unforgettable

as Vicki Wilson

2011
Body of Proof

as Rena Talbot

2010
Blue Bloods

as Anna Goodwin

2010
Boardwalk Empire

as Julia Sagorsky

2006
3 lbs

as Female Student

1990
Law & Order

as Jill Cariclia