Cast & creator
Merry Clayton
Best known for Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Cagney & Lacey, Nine 1/2 Weeks
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".
Also known as: Raspberries, The Merry Clayton Singers
Movies
9
film credits
Series
4
television credits
Career
13
1982–2026 · acting roles
Credit score
7.3
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (13)
Showing 13 of 13 credits
Series
★ 5.3
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
2003
Series
★ 7.0
Cagney & Lacey
Verna Dee Jordan
1982
Movie
★ 6.1
Nine 1/2 Weeks
Background Vocal at Porno House
1986T
Series
★ 7.5
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
1988
Series
★ 9.0
Women Who Rock
Self
2022
Movie
★ 7.2
20 Feet from Stardom
Self
2013
Movie
★ 6.5
Get Bruce!
Self
1999
Movie
★ 5.5
Maid to Order
Audrey James
1987
Movie
★ 6.8
Cagney & Lacey: The Return
Verna Dee Jordan
1994
Movie
★ 10.0
Billy Preston: That's the Way God Planned It
Self
2026D
Movie
★ 8.0
Dirty Dancing Live in Concert
Herself
1988
Movie
★ 7.2
Blame It on the Night
Merry Clayton
1984
Movie
★ 9.0
A Private Affair
Betty
2000