Known for Acting
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 FlashForward.
Born
March 10, 1938
Died
January 19, 2016 (age 77)
Birthplace
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Filmography
39 films, 23 shows


Claire
2007 · 1h 36m
country: Unknown
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 a fishing accident but is powerless to prevent it. Two years later when Claire's neighbors are murdered, she reluctantly agrees to use her clairvoyance to help with the police investigation.


Eulogy
2004 · 1h 31m
country: United States
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 and covert relationships.


American Girl
2002 · 1h 28m
country: United States
A pregnant teenager is determined to leave her trailer park home with the hope of living a happy family life.


Bandits
2001 · 2h 3m
country: United States
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 life south of the border. Unfortunately, things get more complicated when they meet Kate, who runs into them with her car. She joins the bandits on their cross-country spree, and eventually she steals something, too: their hearts.


Jack the Dog
2001 · 1h 25m
country: Unknown
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 promiscuous lifestyle. With his pal Buddy as a witness, Jack vows to find love and settle down. Jack keeps his word and marries Faith, but it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks. Even though they've had a child together, Jack soon falls into old patterns. He does his best to hide his infidelity, but Faith is not fooled. She leaves him, and takes their son Sam with her. Realizing how important Sam is to him, Jack pulls his act together and wins custody. Getting to know his son on a new level, Jack finds the one thing he's been longing for: pure, unconditional true love.


What Lies Beneath
2000 · 2h 10m
country: United States
Norman and Claire Spencer are a seemingly happily married couple who uncover a terrible secret… a secret so disturbing it threatens to destroy them.


Murder One: Diary of a Serial Killer
1997
country: United States
Wyler and associates take on the case of an admitted serial killer.


Tell Me No Secrets
1997 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Jess Koster is a young attorney in Los Angeles, who is being stalked by the serial killer she is prosecuting.


Just in Time
1997 · 1h 20m
country: United States
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’s hired to take care of his troubled 7-year-old daughter, Lily. When Faith helps Lily deal with her mother’s death, she earns a place in Michael’s heart. But to keep Faith in their lives, Michael has to decide what’s really important to him.


2 Days in the Valley
1996 · 1h 44m
country: United States
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 puts the mundane lives of a dozen residents on a collision course. This clever tale tells the story of two hit men, a mistress, a nurse, a vindictive ex-wife, a wealthy art dealer and his lovelorn assistant, a suicidal writer and his dog, and a bitter cop and his partner.


Norma Jean & Marilyn
1996 · 2h 19m
country: United States
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 further her career. She finds fame but never happiness, only knowing seduction but not love.


While You Were Sleeping
1995 · 1h 43m
country: United States
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 fiancée, and she doesn't correct them. Things get more complicated when she falls for his brother, who's not quite sure that she's who she claims to be.


The Client
1994 · 1h 59m
country: United States
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 Mafia hit-man. Before Jerome shoots himself, he tells Mark where the body of a Senator is buried. Clifford shoots himself and Mark is found at the scene, and both the FBI and the Mafia quickly realize that Mark probably knows more than he says.


Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
1993 · 2h 3m
country: United States
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 in a park Frank is able to start a conversation after several attempts. They begin to spend time together and become friends. But because of their different characters they often quarrel with each other and finally seperate after Frank misbehaves to Walter's friend Elaine.


The Thing Called Love
1993 · 1h 56m
country: United States
A group of newcomers to the country music business seek love and stardom.


Warlock: The Armageddon
1993 · 1h 38m
country: United States
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 evil, or banish it for another six hundred years. An order of Druids battles with a Warlock determined to unleash his father upon the world.


Judgment Day: The John List Story
1993 · 1h 36m
country: United States
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 slayed in their house - obviously by John, who left two letters for the police and his priest and disappeared. Chief Richland is disgusted by the murder and starts an intensive investigation. In flashbacks we learn about the history of the disaster.


Elvis and the Colonel: The Untold Story
1993 · 1h 32m
country: United States
The story of the relationship between Elvis Presley and his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, from its beginnings in 1955 right the way through until Presley's death on August 16, 1977.


Somebody's Daughter
1992 · 1h 32m
country: United States
A stripper and her bodyguard become involved in a murder.


What She Doesn't Know
1992 · 1h 33m
country: United States
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 who may be involved in corruption.


Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
1990 · 1h 35m
country: United Kingdom
Movie star Roxy Carmichael is abandoning the bright lights of Hollywood, Calif. and returning to her small Ohio hometown -- at least long enough to dedicate a city building. And now the whole town of Clyde is bracing for Carmichael's return, most of all her now-married old flame Denton Webb and troubled teen Dinky Bossetti. An orphan with few friends, Dinky is convinced that Carmichael is her birth mother, and that the actress will reclaim her when she returns.


The Grifters
1990 · 1h 50m
country: Canada
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 angles to play.


When He's Not a Stranger
1989 · 1h 40m
country: United States
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, Melanie is not there. Ron forces himself on Lyn. When she resists, Ron throws her on the bed and rapes her. Lyn initially tries to forget about it, but when she does decide to pursue a university hearing, the pressure of Melanie, Ron, and the school is brought to bear...


The Turn of the Screw
1989 · 56m
country: Unknown
In a mid-19th century Essex country house, a young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.


How I Got Into College
1989 · 1h 26m
country: United States
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 way to get into Ramsey College, Jessica's top choice of schools. It won't be easy, since the college is highly selective and Marlon's grades are hardly impressive. That means the lovelorn teen will have to find a way to score high on the SATs and win over the college admissions committee.


Roe vs. Wade
1989 · 1h 40m
country: United States
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, she seeks an abortion. Denied an abortion in Texas the young woman hires a novice lawyer to plead her case in the US supreme court. Eventually the law is changed, but for the character it takes longer than nine months.


Gleaming the Cube
1989 · 1h 46m
country: United States
An Orange County teenager's carefree life of ditching class and skateboarding abandoned pools comes to a screeching halt when someone close to him dies. The cops rule the death a suicide, but the bereaved skater believes he was murdered. It's up to him to solve the case, with a skateboard.


Colors
1988 · 2h
country: United States
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 enforced by the colors the members wear.


Broken Angel
1988 · 1h 40m
country: United States
A man combs Los Angeles for his missing daughter, and discovers she belongs to a gang dealing in crack.


Daddy
1987 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Two high schoolers are unprepared for the reality of parenthood when the girl becomes pregnant.


Destination: America
1987 · 1h 35m
country: United States
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 murder, with his old childhood friend determined to convict him. Pilot to a prospective TV series.


Welcome to 18
1986 · 1h 31m
country: United States
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 graduate. After their jobs at a dude ranch fail to work out, the girls head to Lake Tahoe where they meet Talia (Cristen Kauffman). Talia's boyfriend Roscoe then helps the girls get a job at a casino which leads to trouble.


Bad Guys
1986 · 1h 26m
country: United States
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 · 1h 37m
country: Unknown
Two girls cruise the country in a 1959 blue Cadillac DeVille. They originally had set out to find one's missing father (a career soldier who abandoned his family after service in Vietnam), but experience numerous misadventures along the way.


Twice in a Lifetime
1985 · 1h 51m
country: United States
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 at a local bar for a drink to celebrate. He finds himself attracted to the young, very sexy barmaid--and, to his surprise, he finds that she is also very attracted to him.


Mask
1985 · 2h
country: United States
A significantly deformed but highly intelligent teenage boy and his biker gang mother attempt to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.


Flashdance
1983 · 1h 35m
country: United States
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 encourages her to fulfil her dream.


Money on the Side
1982 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Three middle-class housewives who are having money problems join a prostitution ring.


Alligator
1980 · 1h 31m
country: United States
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 animal escapes the city sewers and goes on a rampage, pursued by a cop and a big-game hunter.