Michael Mercurio

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.

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.

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.

Michael Mercurio (born January 8, 1982) is an American actor who has appeared in film, theatre, and television, often portraying psychologically disturbed characters.