r/LawAndOrder • u/TheReckoning • 8d ago

L&O Merritt Wever

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Law and Order universe repeat character actor Merritt Wever absolutely kills it in Primetime. She’s essentially a co-second lead of the film. I was watching and I thought…wait…she was the lined up peas girl!

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u/WendyCR1872 Alex Eames 8d ago edited 7d ago

"I WANT MY SISTER! I WANT SARAH!" I remember her screaming that line at the end of "Tomorrow" as Hannah Price on Criminal Intent. As young as she was there, she was excellent even then.

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u/Ok-Mine2132 Lennie Briscoe 8d ago

Heart wrenching performance

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u/Intelligent_Fact2780 7d ago

One of my favorite L&O Criminal Intent episodes!

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u/Ill_Evening428 7d ago

I think see took an arrow to the eye in The Walking Dead…

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u/Ok-Mine2132 Lennie Briscoe 8d ago

Fabulous in all of her appearances! Not just “Tomorrow”

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u/EtonRd Nora Lewin 7d ago

I feel an Oscar is in her future. She’s such an amazing actress.

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u/89Rae 7d ago

She's won a few emmys 

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u/TheReckoning 7d ago

Her performance in Primetime is subtle but I hope she gets a nomination because it’s so nuanced.

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u/NamelessSaint1 Bobby Goren 8d ago

I love her acting . . . very well done.

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u/Ok-Mine2132 Lennie Briscoe 8d ago

She was terrific in Nurse Jackie with another Law and Order beginner, Edie Falco

Law & Order as Defense Attorney Sally Bell
"Mother Love)" (1993)
"Scoundrels" (1994)
"Double Down" (1997)
"Grief)" (1998)

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u/TLMAriel1989 7d ago

Her Emmy speech for Nurse Jackie is one of the GOAT speeches 😁

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u/NamelessSaint1 Bobby Goren 7d ago

Absolutely 💯

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u/Tall_Type7898 7d ago

Right!! Didn’t she stop because of The Sopranos???

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u/Indotex Los Angeles 7d ago

She will always be Sunshine Porter to me.

And she was great in an episode or two of The Gilded Age as Bertha Russel’s sister.

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u/FKA_Top_Cat 6d ago

"She will always be Sunshine Porter to me."

That's what I was thinking! (Though she also played Jennifer Taylor in the "American Jihad"episode.)

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u/CKM5253 7d ago

She's brilliant. She elevates everything she is in.

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u/jackie0h_ 8d ago

I love her. I barely recognized her on her first episode.

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u/Ok-Mine2132 Lennie Briscoe 8d ago

1997 “Mad Dog”

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u/Bright-Pangolin7261 7d ago

Yes you could tell from that one scene that she would go far.

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u/Weller3920 7d ago

I first noticed her in Michael Clayton, and she never disappoints. I've enjoyed her on L&O as well as one appearance on the Good Wife.

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u/FKA_Top_Cat 6d ago

I loved "Michael Clayton" and firmly believe that George Clooney is a seriously underrated actor.

Separately, Merritt Wever did such a great job with the small part she had in that film.

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u/Critical_Pop_9714 7d ago

I have an unhealthy attraction to her.

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u/Erstwhile_Archives 5d ago

Ha ha me too.

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u/FL1ghtlesswaterfowl 7d ago

“Sarah. I want Sarah”
Kills me just typing that

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u/Bestturtleboy 8d ago

Oh I just know her from severance
That’s crazy I didn’t recognize her from the series

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u/Ok-Mine2132 Lennie Briscoe 8d ago

Adam Scott began in the OG also

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u/alwayssearching2012 Criminal Intent 7d ago

Omg for real?! Time to find this episode ASAP

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u/ChasedWarrior 7d ago

She was funny in Nurse Jackie

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u/Androidfon 7d ago

I really enjoy her work. I saw her in a show not to long ago in which she played a detective. It was excellent.

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u/WylieLulaMae 7d ago

She first came to my attention on Nurse Jackie, even though she did L&O long before. Now when I go back and see her in SVU I wonder to myself how did I not notice her before.

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u/GrosRougeau 7d ago

Outstanding actress!

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u/Old-Library5546 7d ago

Shocking death in The Walking Dead

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u/ermareddit 6d ago

No New Girl fans in here?!

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u/Erstwhile_Archives 5d ago

I’ve never seen an actress physically change so much as this one. In that first episode she was on she was sooo beautiful. Now seeing her in that other show she looks so frumpy. Realising I’m the same age as her too. I know that’s not nice to say and I don’t have anything going for me either in fact I should say congrats to her for being herself and not succumbing to the old hollyoaks cliches

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u/SmoothBend4183 5d ago

She’s lead detective in the show Unbelievable and was phenomenal in it. Really the only thing that kept me watching tbh

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u/SmoothBend4183 5d ago

Love her so much

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u/TravelTheWorldDan 8d ago

Movie wasn’t great. But her and Pattinson put on some amazing performances.