Merry Clayton
Known for Acting
Born December 25, 1948 (77 years old)
Place of Birth New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Biography
Merry Clayton is an American soul and gospel singer and an actress. She provided a number of backing vocal tracks for major performing artists in the 1960s, most notably in her duet with Mick Jagger on the Rolling Stones song "Gimme Shelter".
Filmography
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Nine 1/2 Weeks
1986
as Background Vocal at Porno House
Get Bruce!
1999
as Self
Maid to Order
1987
as Audrey James
20 Feet from Stardom
2013
as Self
Blame It on the Night
1984
as Merry Clayton
Cagney & Lacey: The Return
1994
as Verna Dee Jordan
Billy Preston: That's the Way God Planned It
2026
as Self
A Private Affair
2000
as Betty
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Dirty Dancing Live in Concert
1988
as Herself