Wrenn Schmidt

Wrenn Schmidt is an American actress who built her career from stage roles in New York into television and film work. Born in Lexington, South Carolina, she studied at Southern Methodist University's Meadows School of the Arts in University Park, Texas, and in 2003 appeared in George F. Walker's play Heaven at the Kitchen Dog Theater in Dallas. In 2006 the Jean Cocteau Repertory gave her a part in Crazy for the Dog, and she later took the title role in Sive at the Irish Repertory Theatre. Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (2010) was her film debut. She became a series regular on Boardwalk Empire, playing Julia Sagorsky, and her other television roles include The Americans, Person of Interest and Outcast. Her films include Preservation (2014), I Saw the Light (2015), 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016), The Good Catholic and Nope (2022), and she plays NASA engineer Margo Madison in For All Mankind.