
Acting · born 1983 · Lexington, South Carolina, USA
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).

Nope
Amber Park · 2022

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Becky Silva · 2016

Person of Interest
Iris Campbell · 2011

Nuremberg
Elsie Douglas · 2025

Boardwalk Empire
Julia Sagorsky · 2010

The Americans
Kate · 2013

Our Idiot Brother
Beth · 2011

For All Mankind
Margo Madison · 2019

Outcast
Megan Holter · 2016

I Saw the Light
Bobbie Jett · 2016

The Looming Tower
Diane Priest · 2018

Preservation
Wit Neary · 2014

Tyrant
Jenna Olson · 2014

Xeno
Linda · 2025

The Starling Girl
Heidi Starling · 2023

The Good Catholic
Jane · 2017

Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
Angelina · 2010

How to Follow Strangers
Shelly · 2013

Stitches
Gillian · 2025

Imprint
Flora · 2026