
Wrenn Schmidt
Department: Acting
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).
Known For

Xeno
2025

Nope
2022

Preservation
2014

How to Follow Strangers
2013

The Starling Girl
2023

Nuremberg
2025

I Saw the Light
2016

Our Idiot Brother
2011

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
2016

The Good Catholic
2017

Stitches
2025

The Americans
2013

Blue Bloods
2010

Person of Interest
2011

Body of Proof
2011

Outcast
2016

The Looming Tower
2018

Unforgettable
2011

Elementary
2012

For All Mankind
2019

Elementary
2012

Law & Order
1990

3 lbs
2006

Boardwalk Empire
2010