Wrenn Schmidt
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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Movie Appearances

Xeno
as Linda
2025

Nope
as Amber Park
2022

Preservation
as Wit Neary
2014

How to Follow Strangers
as Shelly
2013

The Starling Girl
as Heidi Starling
2023

Nuremberg
as Elsie Douglas
2025

I Saw the Light
as Bobbie Jett
2016

Our Idiot Brother
as Beth
2011

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
as Becky Silva
2016

The Good Catholic
as Jane
2017

Stitches
as Gillian
2025
TV Appearances

The Americans
as Kate
2013

Blue Bloods
as Anna Goodwin
2010

Person of Interest
as Iris Campbell
2011

Body of Proof
as Rena Talbot
2011

Outcast
as Megan Holter
2016

The Looming Tower
as Diane Priest
2018

Unforgettable
as Vicki Wilson
2011

Elementary
as Cashier / Ellory
2012

For All Mankind
as Margo Madison
2019

Elementary
as Ellory
2012

Law & Order
as Jill Cariclia
1990

3 lbs
as Female Student
2006
