1. Melinda Wrenn Schmidt was born on February 18,1983 and is an American actress.
23 Facts About Wrenn Schmidt
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Wrenn Schmidt 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.
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Wrenn Schmidt's father is a biology professor, and her mother is a former dietitian.
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Wrenn Schmidt comes from mixed European heritage; German from her father, including English, Scots-Irish, Polish, and Austrian, among others.
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Wrenn Schmidt had a part in the George F Walker play, Heaven, at Dallas' Kitchen Dog Theater in 2003.
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Wrenn Schmidt was first cast in Crazy for the Dog in 2006 by the Jean Cocteau Repertory.
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Wrenn Schmidt appeared in the title role of Sive at the Irish Repertory Theatre in 2007, and was then an understudy in a revival of Come Back, Little Sheba on Broadway.
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In 2009, Wrenn Schmidt appeared off-Broadway at the Harold Clurman Theatre as Cleopatra in Caesar and Cleopatra, at the Cherry Lane Theatre in Jailbait, and regionally in Proof at Cape May Stage.
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Wrenn Schmidt made her film debut in the 2010 documentary Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, portraying a prostitute who refused to appear on camera.
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Wrenn Schmidt had parts that year on NBC's Mercy, and in the play Phantom Killer, about the 1946 Texarkana Moonlight Murders.
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Wrenn Schmidt made her feature film debut in Our Idiot Brother, a comedy-drama starring Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, and Zooey Deschanel, which premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.
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Wrenn Schmidt was cast in the play Be a Good Little Widow at Ars Nova, and in Teresa Deevy's Temporal Powers at Manhattan's Mint Theater in 2011.
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In 2012, Wrenn Schmidt became a regular on the HBO Prohibition-era crime drama, Boardwalk Empire, playing Julia Sagorsky.
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Wrenn Schmidt played Ruth Atkins in the Eugene O'Neill play, Beyond the Horizon, at the Irish Repertory Theatre.
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Wrenn Schmidt returned to the Mint Theater in 2013 to play the 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 Harvey Theater.
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Wrenn Schmidt had a number of recurring roles on television in 2014.
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Wrenn Schmidt played Kate, a KGB handler, on the FX series, The Americans, for six episodes.
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Wrenn Schmidt played Jenna Olson on FX's Tyrant, and Dr Iris Campbell on Person of Interest.
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Wrenn Schmidt starred alongside Aaron Staton and Pablo Schreiber in the 2014 horror-thriller film Preservation, which was directed by Christopher Denham and premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.
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Wrenn Schmidt then appeared in the 2015 Hank Williams biopic film I Saw the Light, starring Tom Hiddleston and Elizabeth Olsen.
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Wrenn Schmidt played Bobbie Jett, who had a short-lived relationship with Williams, and gave birth to their daughter, Jett Williams.
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In 2016, Wrenn Schmidt had a role opposite John Krasinski in the Michael Bay film, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, which portrays the 2012 Benghazi attack in Libya.
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Wrenn Schmidt joined the cast of the Cinemax drama series, Outcast, based on a Robert Kirkman graphic novel about demonic possession.