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Wrenn Schmidt

Wrenn Schmidt

Born: 1983-02-18 • Lexington, South Carolina, USA

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).

Filmography
Nuremberg poster
Nuremberg
2025 • Elsie Douglas
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Xeno
2025 • Linda
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Stitches
2025 • Gillian
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The Starling Girl
2023 • Heidi Starling
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Nope
2022 • Amber Park
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The Good Catholic
2017 • Jane
I Saw the Light poster
I Saw the Light
2016 • Bobbie Jett
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi poster
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
2016 • Becky Silva
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Preservation
2014 • Wit Neary
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How to Follow Strangers
2013 • Shelly
Our Idiot Brother poster
Our Idiot Brother
2011 • Beth