Wrenn Schmidt

Wrenn Schmidt

Actor

Lexington, South Carolina, USA
February 18, 1983

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).

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Representative Works

Nuremberg
Nuremberg
7.6
/ English
Nope
Nope
6.8
/ English
Our Idiot Brother
Our Idiot Brother
6.1
/ English
Xeno
Xeno
6.9
/ English
The Starling Girl
The Starling Girl
6.4
/ English
I Saw the Light
I Saw the Light
6.2
/ English
Preservation
Preservation
4.9
/ English
Imprint
Imprint
No Rating Yet
/ English
Stitches
Stitches
1.0
/ English

Awards and Honors

Critical Favorites

Nuremberg
2025Winner

Best Performance

Nuremberg

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
2016Nominee

Best Performance

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

Nope
2022Nominee

Best Performance

Nope

Career Highlights

Our Idiot Brother
2011Highlight

Best Performance

Our Idiot Brother

Xeno
2025Highlight

Best Performance

Xeno