Merry Clayton

Actor Dec 25 (age 77) New Orleans, Louisiana, USA 1982–2026 (44 year career)

6.7 avg rating

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".

Known For

Film

Nine 1/2 Weeks

Background Vocal at Porno House

Film

20 Feet from Stardom

Self

Film

Maid to Order

Audrey James

Film

Get Bruce!

Self

Film

Cagney & Lacey: The Return

Verna Dee Jordan

Film

Cagney & Lacey

Verna Dee Jordan

Film

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Self

Film

Blame It on the Night

Merry Clayton

Filmography

Acting (13)

Movies (9)

Billy Preston: That's the Way God Planned It

2026

as Self

20 Feet from Stardom

2013

as Self

7.2

A Private Affair

2000

as Betty

Get Bruce!

1999

as Self

6.2

Cagney & Lacey: The Return

1994

as Verna Dee Jordan

6.6

Dirty Dancing Live in Concert

1988

as Herself

Maid to Order

1987

as Audrey James

5.4

Nine 1/2 Weeks

1986

as Background Vocal at Porno House

6.1

Blame It on the Night

1984

as Merry Clayton

7.5

Television (4)

Women Who Rock

as Self

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

as Self

The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

Cagney & Lacey

as Verna Dee Jordan