Wrenn Schmidt is a versatile, respected actress, lover of flowers and textiles, and all-around goofball. She currently stars in the hit Apple TV+ alternate history drama, For All Mankind, as the brilliant, determined, and ambitious NASA engineer Margo Madison. For All Mankind explores a world in which Russia beats the United States to the moon, sparking a global space race that never ends.
Wrenn frequently traverses genre and medium as she takes on bold characters to tell incredible stories. In 2018, Schmidt starred alongside Jeff Daniels, Tahar Rahim, and Peter Sarsgaard in the Emmy-nominated Hulu drama The Looming Tower. Before that, Schmidt co-starred alongside Patrick Fugit and Phil Glenister in Cinemax’s exorcism drama, Outcast from The Walking Dead’s Robert Kirkman.
But it was her work as Richard Harrow’s kind-hearted, sensitive love interest Julia Sagorsky on HBO’s critically acclaimed Boardwalk Empire that first drew attention to her.
On the silver screen she can be found opposite Tom Hiddleston and Elizabeth Olsen in the Hank Williams biopic I Saw The Light, and alongside John Krasinski in Michael Bay’s 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi.
On the stage, Wrenn appeared opposite John Turturro in The Master Builder at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, which earned her a place on INDIEWIRE’s list of '10 Actresses to Watch.’ Schmidt also worked under Tony award-winning director Anthony Page in the National Broadway tour of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, starring Kathleen Turner and Bill Irwin.
Numerous stage turns Off-Broadway and on Broadway followed: world premieres of Be a Good Little Widow, Jailbait, Eugene O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon, and the Broadway production of Come Back, Little Sheba, among others.
