Biography
Micole Diana Mercurio (March 10, 1938 – January 19, 2016) was an American film and television actress and artist. Her film credits included the roles of Rosemary Szabo in Flashdance in 1983, Mrs. Kelly in Gleaming the Cube in 1989, Momma Love in The Client in 1994, Midge Callaghan in While You Were Sleeping in 1995, as well as What Lies Beneath in 2000. Mercurio's television work included guest appearances and recurring roles on Night Court, Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, Chicago Hope and FlashFor...
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Complete Filmography

Claire
2007
as Bunny Holden
Claire Bannion, a widowed mother of two young daughters, has the gift of extrasensory perception that torments her after she "sees" her husband die in...

Eulogy
2004
as Delilah, Barbara Collins' Neighbor
A black comedy that follows three generations of a family, who come together for the funeral of the patriarch - unveiling a litany of family secrets a...

American Girl
2002
as Faye
A pregnant teenager is determined to leave her trailer park home with the hope of living a happy family life.

Bandits
2001
as Sarah Fife
After escaping from prison, Joe and Terry go on a crime spree, robbing banks through Oregon and California in order to finance their scheme for a new ...

Jack the Dog
2001
as Rose
Jack is a dog. When he's not photographing women, as a profession, he's seducing them. Until now. Home from Paris, he feels empty and fed up with his ...

What Lies Beneath
2000
as Mrs. Frank
When Claire Spencer starts hearing ghostly voices and seeing spooky images, she wonders if an otherworldly spirit is trying to contact her. All the wh...

Tell Me No Secrets
1997
as Pearl Koster
Jess Koster is a young attorney in Los Angeles, who is being stalked by the serial killer she is prosecuting.

Just in Time
1997
as Dotty Zacarelli
After his wife’s death, Michael loses track of what’s important. That’s why it’s strictly business between Michael and Faith, the attractive nanny he’...

2 Days in the Valley
1996
as Older Woman
In a sleepy bedroom community of LA's San Fernando Valley, the murder of a professional athlete by two hit men sets into motion a chain of events that...

Norma Jean & Marilyn
1996
as Mozelle Hyde
This film follows Norma Jean from her simple, ambitious youth to her sex star pinnacle and back down. She moves from lover to lover in order to furthe...

While You Were Sleeping
1995
as Midge Callaghan
A transit worker pulls commuter Peter off railway tracks after he's mugged, but—while he's in a coma—his family mistakenly thinks she's Peter's fiancé...

The Client
1994
as Momma Love
A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a ...

Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
1993
as Bernice
Frank, a retired Irish seaman, and Walter, a retired Cuban barber, are two lonely old men trapped in the emptiness of their own lives. When they meet ...

The Thing Called Love
1993
as Mary
A group of newcomers to the country music business seek love and stardom.

Warlock: The Armageddon
1993
as Kate (uncredited)
Every six hundred years, a great evil has the opportunity to escape and unleash Armageddon. A group of five stones has the power to either free the ev...

Judgment Day: The John List Story
1993
as Wanda
The pious John List regularly goes to church and is respected by his neighbours. But one day the police finds his wife Helen and their three children ...

Elvis and the Colonel: The Untold Story
1993
as Gladys Presley
The story of the relationship between Elvis Presley and his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, from its beginnings in 1955 right the way through until Presl...

Somebody's Daughter
1992
as Mrs. Calder
A stripper and her bodyguard become involved in a murder.

What She Doesn't Know
1992
as Lorraine Kilcoin
An idealistic law school graduate comes to work in the New York D.A.'s office. Her first case leads her straight to her father, a veteran New York cop...

Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
1990
as Louise Garweski
Movie star Roxy Carmichael is abandoning the bright lights of Hollywood, Calif. and returning to her small Ohio hometown -- at least long enough to de...

The Grifters
1990
as Waitress
A small-time conman has his loyalties torn between his estranged mother and his new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own a...

When He's Not a Stranger
1989
as Emily McKenna
At a California university, Lyn goes to meet her best friend Melanie in the dorm room of Melanie's boyfriend Ron, a football star. When Lyn arrives, M...

The Turn of the Screw
1989
as Mrs. Gross
A governess is hired to look after two neglected children, who show signs of having been corrupted by the insidious influence of the groom Peter Quint...

How I Got Into College
1989
as Betty Kailo
High school senior Marlon Bowne is smitten with overachieving classmate Jessica Kailo. But, if he wants to have a shot with her, he'll have to find a ...

Roe vs. Wade
1989
as Ida Russell
Holly Hunter plays a lonely, single, poorly educated Texan who finds herself pregnant with no means to support a child. To avoid giving up the child, ...

Gleaming the Cube
1989
as Mrs. Kelly
An Orange County teenager's carefree life of ditching class and skateboarding abandoned pools comes to a screeching halt when someone close to him die...

Colors
1988
as Joan Hodges
A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of Los Angeles, where the gang culture is enfor...

Broken Angel
1988
A man combs Los Angeles for his missing daughter, and discovers she belongs to a gang dealing in crack.

Daddy
1987
as Ms. Lipton
Two high schoolers are unprepared for the reality of parenthood when the girl becomes pregnant.

Destination: America
1987
A patrician family's estranged, black-sheep son forsakes his blue-collar life to return home and soon finds himself wrongly accused of his father's mu...

Welcome to 18
1986
as Miss Bulah
Three young women looking for adventure get jobs on a dude ranch. The film follows the adventures of three high school girls the summer after they gr...

Bad Guys
1986
as Vick
Two LA cops turn to professional wrestling for money and revenge after being suspended from the force for a bar brawl.

Blue De Ville
1986
as Vee Valentine
Two girls cruise the country in a 1959 blue Cadillac DeVille. They originally had set out to find the missing father of one of the girls (he is a care...

Twice in a Lifetime
1985
as Betty
A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On his 50th birthday, he stops in a...

Mask
1985
as Babe
A boy with a massive facial skull deformity and his biker gang mother attempt to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.

Flashdance
1983
as Rosemary Szabo
Alex Owens, a young woman juggling between two odd jobs, aspires to become a successful ballet dancer. Nick, who is her boss and lover, supports and e...

Money on the Side
1982
as Donna Pallizzano
Three middle-class housewives who are having money problems join a prostitution ring.

Alligator
1980
as Joey's Mother
A baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives by eating discarded lab animals that have been injected with growth hormones. The now gigantic ...