After studying art during his young adult life, film and stage actor Michael Mercurio moved from his hometown of Brooklyn, New York City, to Chicago to study acting. After completing an acting conservatory, he was offered a scholarship with the Chicago Actor's Studio, under the tutelage of Edward Fogell. While in Chicago, he made his off-Broadway theater debut in Jorge Aviles' 'Nicas', securing the lead role as an outspoken young gay man who returns to Nicaragua to confront his past. Shortly afterward, he was offered his first film role in the low budget film 'Angel in Chains', portraying an outlaw biker in Benson, Arizona. He then secured another supporting role as a small-time drug dealer in the film, 'Everyday'. Upon moving to Los Angeles, he portrayed a compulsive gambler in debt, in the independent movie, �Fixing Rhonda'.
Other eclectic roles include a computer programmer who questions his own ethical obligations in Adam Cosco's, 'God Complex'; a psychiatric inpatient suffering from schizophrenia in Mark Frumkin's existential short film, 'Psycho Killer Reflections on God'; and a man suffering from chronic depression who methodically plans his own suicide in Tad Chamberlain's dark comedy, 'Anti-Samaritan Hotline'. And recently starred in Gregory Torrillo's directorial film debut, 'Adoration', about a man who suffers from a borderline personality disorder, who discovers that his wife is having an affair with his brother and must cope with the pain in his own way.
In addition to film, Mercurio is currently a member with The Actors' Gang theatre company in Los Angeles, CA.
Other eclectic roles include a computer programmer who questions his own ethical obligations in Adam Cosco's, 'God Complex'; a psychiatric inpatient suffering from schizophrenia in Mark Frumkin's existential short film, 'Psycho Killer Reflections on God'; and a man suffering from chronic depression who methodically plans his own suicide in Tad Chamberlain's dark comedy, 'Anti-Samaritan Hotline'. And recently starred in Gregory Torrillo's directorial film debut, 'Adoration', about a man who suffers from a borderline personality disorder, who discovers that his wife is having an affair with his brother and must cope with the pain in his own way.
In addition to film, Mercurio is currently a member with The Actors' Gang theatre company in Los Angeles, CA.