Michael Mercurio, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetMichael Mercurio
American actor
Date of Birth: 08-Jan-1972
Place of Birth: Columbus, Ohio, United States
Profession: actor
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Michael Mercurio
- Michael Mercurio (born January 8, 1982) is an American actor who has appeared in film, theatre, and television, often portraying psychologically disturbed characters. Mercurio was born in Columbus, Ohio.
- His family moved to Brooklyn, New York when he was 5 years old.
- When he was a teenager, they relocated to Ridgewood, New Jersey, where Mercurio attended Ridgewood High School.
- During that period, his primary interest was art, but that changed in his early 20s, when he moved to Chicago to study acting.
- He completed an acting conservatory and was offered a scholarship with the Chicago Actor's Studio. While living in Chicago, Mercurio made his off-Broadway theatre debut with StageLeft Theatre in Jorge Aviles' Nicas, playing the lead role as a gay man who returns to Nicaragua to confront his past.
- Mercurio received excellent reviews, and shortly thereafter was offered his first film role in the low-budget Angel in Chains (2004), in which he portrayed an outlaw biker. In 2004, he moved to Los Angeles, where he accepted roles in a string of independent and short films, to broaden his acting range in an effort to avoid being typecast.
- He played a compulsive gambler, in the independent movie Fixing Rhonda (2008).
- Other movie projects followed, including God Complex (2009), in which he played a computer programmer who questions his ethical obligations, and other films such as Psycho Killer Reflections on God, Adoration, Jarhead and Brainstorm. In 2010, Mercurio played a disenchanted former soldier who has been recruited to build a bomb for a domestic terrorist, in the independent suspense-thriller Elevator, written and produced by Marc Rosenberg (Dingo, December Boys) and directed by Stig Svendsen (The Radio Pirates).
- Elevator is expected to be released in January 2012.In addition to his screen work, Mercurio is a former member of The Actors' Gang theatre in Los Angeles, which was founded by acclaimed actor Tim Robbins.
- He is also an artist known for his unusual blend of sculpture and canvas, utilizing surrealistic dark themes. Mercurio’s biological father, was best known as co-founder and drummer of the band Elephant's Memory, which performed with various artists, including John Lennon and Yoko Ono under the name Plastic Ono Elephant's Memory Band.
- Mercurio’s mother, Kathy Wollard, is the author of the popular How Come? syndicated newspaper column and Web site.
- His stepfather, Evan Morris, was an author and syndicated newspaper columnist, best known for the column The Word Detective.
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