Acting
Merry Clayton
1948 · New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
9 films
Bio
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
Nine 1/2 Weeks
Background Vocal at Porno House
Get Bruce!
Self
Maid to Order
Audrey James
20 Feet from Stardom
Self
Cagney & Lacey: The Return
Verna Dee Jordan
Billy Preston: That's the Way God Planned It
Self
A Private Affair
Betty
Blame It on the Night
Merry Clayton
Dirty Dancing Live in Concert1988
Dirty Dancing Live in Concert
Herself