Merry Clayton
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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
Credits
Nine 1/2 Weeks (1986)
as Background Vocal at Porno House
Get Bruce! (1999)
as Self
Maid to Order (1987)
as Audrey James
20 Feet from Stardom (2013)
as Self
Billy Preston: That's the Way God Planned It (2026)
as Self
Cagney & Lacey: The Return (1994)
as Verna Dee Jordan
A Private Affair (2000)
as Betty
Dirty Dancing Live in Concert (1988)
as Herself
Blame It on the Night (1984)
as Merry Clayton