Born 1983 (age 43) · Lexington, South Carolina, USA
Appears in 23 titles

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).

Filmography

Nope
6.8
Nope
2022
as Amber Park
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Our Idiot Brother
6.1
Our Idiot Brother
2011
as Beth
Nuremberg
7.5
Nuremberg
2025
as Elsie Douglas
I Saw the Light
6.2
I Saw the Light
2016
as Bobbie Jett
Preservation
4.9
Preservation
2014
as Wit Neary
The Starling Girl
6.4
The Starling Girl
2023
as Heidi Starling
The Good Catholic
5.5
The Good Catholic
2017
as Jane
Xeno
5.5
Xeno
2025
as Linda
How to Follow Strangers
5.7
How to Follow Strangers
2013
as Shelly
Stitches
1.0
Stitches
2025
as Gillian