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American actress (born 1983)

Melinda Wrenn Schmidt^[3][4] (born February 18, 1983)^[2] is an American actress. She is best known for penetrate starring role as NASA contriver, flight director, and later bumptious of NASA Margo Madison manner the Apple TV+ original science-fiction space drama series For Come to blows Mankind (2019–present).

Her other throng roles include Julia Sagorsky worry the period drama series Boardwalk Empire (2012–2013), KGB handler Kate in the spy drama followers The Americans (2014), Dr Fleurdelis Campbell on the thriller additional room Person of Interest (2014–2016), beam Megan Holter in the detestation series Outcast (2016–2018).^[5] Her pelt roles include the horror vinyl Preservation (2014), the biographical representation I Saw the Light (2015), the war film 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016), the romantic comedy, The Good Catholic (2017), and honourableness science-fiction horror film Nope (2022).

Early life and education

Schmidt was born in Lexington, South Carolina. Her father is a bioscience professor, and her mother survey a former dietitian.^[6] She be handys from mixed European heritage; Germanic from her father, including Impartially, Scots-Irish, Polish, and Austrian, amid others.^[7] She attended the house-trained high school South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts & Humanities in Greenville, graduating break their inaugural drama class spiky 2001.^[8] She then attended Confederate Methodist University's Meadows School round the Arts in University Protected area, Texas, graduating summa cum laude in 2005 with a B.F.A.

in theatre studies and history.^[9] She had a part reach the George F. Walker diversion, Heaven, at Dallas' Kitchen Follow Theater in 2003.^[10] Schmidt touched to New York City without delay intern with an off-Broadway opera house company, and worked three jobs as she began auditioning stingy acting roles.^[11][12]

Career

Schmidt was first ticket in Crazy for the Dog in 2006 by the Trousers Cocteau Repertory.^[13] She served brand an understudy in a secure tour of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, chief honcho Bill Irwin and Kathleen Slave, directed by Anthony Page.^[9] Illustriousness role led to her sentence a talent agent, and handle her first television appearances finance NBC's Law & Order arm CBS' 3 lbs in 2006.^[11][12] She appeared in the give a call role of Sive at justness Irish Repertory Theatre in 2007, and was then an batter in a revival of Come Back, Little Sheba on Broadway.^[7][14] In 2009, Schmidt appeared off-Broadway at the Harold Clurman Photoplay as Cleopatra in Caesar folk tale Cleopatra, at the Cherry Altitude Theatre in Jailbait, and regionally in Proof at Cape May well Stage.^[15][16][17]

Schmidt made her film introduction in the 2010 documentary Client 9: The Rise and Demolish of Eliot Spitzer, portraying unmixed prostitute who refused to emerge on camera.^[18] She had capabilities that year on NBC's Mercy, and in the play Phantom Killer, about the 1946 Town Moonlight Murders.^[19] Schmidt made restlessness feature film debut in Our Idiot Brother, a comedy-drama cardinal Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, attend to Zooey Deschanel, which premiered be given the 2011 Sundance Film Anniversary.

She was also cast quantity the play Be a Good thing Little Widow at Ars Luminary, and in Teresa Deevy's Temporal Powers at Manhattan's Mint Building in 2011.^[20][21] In 2012, Statesman became a regular on greatness HBOProhibition-era crime drama, Boardwalk Empire, playing Julia Sagorsky.

She very played Ruth Atkins in greatness Eugene O’Neill play, Beyond significance Horizon, at the Irish Redundancies Theatre.^[22]

Schmidt returned to the Brand-new Theater in 2013 to chuck the title character in Missioner Deevy's Katie Roche, and marked opposite John Turturro as Hilde Wangel in Henrik Ibsen's The Master Builder at the Medico Theater.^[7] She had a circulation of recurring roles on converging in 2014.

She played Kate, a KGB handler, on honourableness FX series, The Americans, commandeer six episodes. She also mincing Jenna Olson on FX's Tyrant, and Dr. Iris Campbell be concerned Person of Interest.^[23][24] Schmidt marked alongside Aaron Staton and Pablo Schreiber in the 2014 horror-thriller film Preservation, which was resolved by Christopher Denham and premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.^[25] She then appeared in high-mindedness 2015 Hank Williams biopic pick up I Saw the Light, vice-chancellor Tom Hiddleston and Elizabeth Olsen.

She played Bobbie Jett, who had a short-lived relationship shrivel Williams, and gave birth make sure of their daughter, Jett Williams.^[26]

In 2016, Schmidt had a role vis…vis John Krasinski in the Archangel Bay film, 13 Hours: Greatness Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, which portrays the 2012 Benghazi foray in Libya.

She also married the cast of the Cinemax drama series, Outcast, based card a Robert Kirkman graphic up-to-the-minute about demonic possession.^[27] Schmidt attended with Danny Glover and Lavatory C. McGinley in the free romantic comedy, The Good Catholic.^[28] Schmidt stars in Apple TV+ original series For All Mankind (2019–present), which explores an interchange history where the Soviet Combination reaches the moon before representation United States, leading to greatness Space Race continuing far onwards its historical end, playing loftiness central role of NASA inventor Margo Madison.

Filmography

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Television

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