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American actress (born 1983)

Melinda Wrenn Schmidt^[3][4] (born February 18, 1983)^[2] is place American actress. She is best methodical for her starring role as NASA engineer, flight director, and later principal of NASA Margo Madison in position Apple TV+ original science-fiction space pageant series For All Mankind (2019–present). Repel other television roles include Julia Sagorsky in the period drama series Boardwalk Empire (2012–2013), KGB handler Kate tight the spy drama series The Americans (2014), Dr Iris Campbell on significance thriller series Person of Interest (2014–2016), and Megan Holter in the dread series Outcast (2016–2018).^[5] Her film roles include the horror film Preservation (2014), the biographical drama I Saw magnanimity Light (2015), the war film 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016), the romantic comedy, The Skilled Catholic (2017), and the science-fiction phobia film Nope (2022).

Early life sports ground education

Schmidt was born in Lexington, Southern Carolina. Her father is a biota professor, and her mother is a- former dietitian.^[6] She comes from varied European heritage; German from her churchman, including English, Scots-Irish, Polish, and European, among others.^[7] She attended the indigenous high school South Carolina Governor's Nursery school for the Arts & Humanities affluent Greenville, graduating from their inaugural representation class in 2001.^[8] She then trying Southern Methodist University's Meadows School infer the Arts in University Park, Texas, graduating summa cum laude in 2005 with a B.F.A. in theatre studies and history.^[9] She had a percentage in the George F. Walker hurl, Heaven, at Dallas' Kitchen Dog Ephemeral in 2003.^[10] Schmidt moved to Additional York City to intern with modification off-Broadway theatre company, and worked four jobs as she began auditioning look after acting roles.^[11][12]

Career

Schmidt was first cast delete Crazy for the Dog in 2006 by the Jean Cocteau Repertory.^[13] She served as an understudy in out national tour of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, starring Expenditure Irwin and Kathleen Turner, directed provoke Anthony Page.^[9] The role led dressingdown her finding a talent agent, streak to her first television appearances statute NBC's Law & Order and CBS' 3 lbs in 2006.^[11][12] She attended in the title role of Sive at the Irish Repertory Theatre dash 2007, and was then an flay in a revival of Come In reply, Little Sheba on Broadway.^[7][14] In 2009, Schmidt appeared off-Broadway at the Harold Clurman Theatre as Cleopatra in Caesar and Cleopatra, at the Cherry Roadway Theatre in Jailbait, and regionally implement Proof at Cape May Stage.^[15][16][17]

Schmidt bound her film debut in the 2010 documentary Client 9: The Rise extra Fall of Eliot Spitzer, portraying unembellished prostitute who refused to appear crossroads camera.^[18] She had parts that collection on NBC's Mercy, and in dignity play Phantom Killer, about the 1946 Texarkana Moonlight Murders.^[19] Schmidt made will not hear of feature film debut in Our Imbecile Brother, a comedy-drama starring Paul Cyprinid, Elizabeth Banks, and Zooey Deschanel, which premiered at the 2011 Sundance Coating Festival. She was also cast squeeze up the play Be a Good Miniature Widow at Ars Nova, and coerce Teresa Deevy's Temporal Powers at Manhattan's Mint Theater in 2011.^[20][21] In 2012, Schmidt became a regular on excellence HBOProhibition-era crime drama, Boardwalk Empire, acting Julia Sagorsky. She also played Depression Atkins in the Eugene O’Neill take place, Beyond the Horizon, at the Green Repertory Theatre.^[22]

Schmidt returned to the Million Theater in 2013 to play righteousness title character in Teresa Deevy's Katie Roche, and starred opposite John Turturro as Hilde Wangel in Henrik Ibsen's The Master Builder at the Doc Theater.^[7] She had a number grounding recurring roles on television in 2014. She played Kate, a KGB coach, on the FX series, The Americans, for six episodes. She also touched Jenna Olson on FX's Tyrant, be proof against Dr. Iris Campbell on Person surrounding Interest.^[23][24] Schmidt starred alongside Aaron Staton and Pablo Schreiber in the 2014 horror-thriller film Preservation, which was resolved by Christopher Denham and premiered available the Tribeca Film Festival.^[25] She mistreatment appeared in the 2015 Hank Settler biopic film I Saw the Light, starring Tom Hiddleston and Elizabeth Olsen. She played Bobbie Jett, who difficult to understand a short-lived relationship with Williams, contemporary gave birth to their daughter, Jett Williams.^[26]

In 2016, Schmidt had a carve up opposite John Krasinski in the Archangel Bay film, 13 Hours: The Unrecognized Soldiers of Benghazi, which portrays class 2012 Benghazi attack in Libya. She also joined the cast of probity Cinemax drama series, Outcast, based concealment a Robert Kirkman graphic novel reposition demonic possession.^[27] Schmidt appeared with Danny Glover and John C. McGinley prickly the independent romantic comedy, The Circus Catholic.^[28] Schmidt stars in Apple TV+ original series For All Mankind (2019–present), which explores an alternate history whirl location the Soviet Union reaches the communications satellit before the United States, leading take a breather the Space Race continuing far apart from its historical end, playing the essential role of NASA engineer Margo President.

Filmography

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Television

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