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).
Known For

Nuremberg
Elsie
2025

Xeno
Linda
2025

Stitches
Gillian
2025

The Starling Girl
Heidi Starling
2023

Nope
Amber Park
2022

For All Mankind
Margo Madison · (40 episodes)
2019

The Looming Tower
Diane Priest · (10 episodes)
2018

The Good Catholic
Jane
2017

Outcast
Megan Holter · (20 episodes)
2016

I Saw the Light
Bobbie Jett
2016

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Becky Silva
2016

Preservation
Wit Neary
2014

How to Follow Strangers
Shelly
2013

The Americans
Kate · (6 episodes)
2013

Elementary
Cashier / Ellory · (1 episode)
2012

Elementary
Ellory · (1 episode)
2012

Person of Interest
Iris Campbell · (7 episodes)
2011

Unforgettable
Vicki Wilson · (1 episode)
2011

Our Idiot Brother
Beth
2011

Body of Proof
Rena Talbot · (1 episode)
2011

Blue Bloods
Anna Goodwin · (1 episode)
2010

Boardwalk Empire
Julia Sagorsky · (1 episode)
2010

3 LBS
Female Student · (1 episode)
2006

Law & Order
Jill Cariclia · (1 episode)
1990