Wrenn Schmidt
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| Born |
Melinda Wrenn Schmidt 1982/1983 (age 33–34) Lexington, South Carolina, U.S. |
| Alma mater |
Southern Methodist University (B.F.A. Theatre Studies, 2005) |
| Occupation | Actress |
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 Schmidt in August 2013
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Wrenn Schmidt (born c. 1983) is an American actress. She is best known for her television roles as Julia Sagorsky in the period drama series Boardwalk Empire (2012–2013), as KGB handler Kate in the spy drama series The Americans (2014), as Dr Iris Campbell on the thriller series Person of Interest (2014–2016) and as Megan Holter in the horror series Outcast (2016–present). 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) and the upcoming indie film The Good Catholic.
Melinda Wrenn Schmidt was born in Lexington, South Carolina. Her father is a biology professor, and her mother is a former dietician. She comes from mixed European heritage; German from her father, but also English, Scotch-Irish, Polish, and Austrian, among others. She attended the residential high school South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts & Humanities in Greenville, graduating from their inaugural drama class in 2001. She then attended Southern Methodist University's Meadows School of the Arts in University Park, Texas, graduating summa cum laude in 2005 with a B.F.A. in theatre studies and history. She had a part in the George F. Walker play, Heaven, at Dallas' Kitchen Dog Theater in 2003. Schmidt moved to New York City to intern with an off-Broadway theatre company, and worked three jobs as she began auditioning for acting roles.
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