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

[1] During that period, his primary interest was art, but that changed in his early 20s, when he moved to Chicago to study acting.

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.

[2] 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.

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).