A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Born:
April 22, 1972
Mercedes Rose was born to be a performer. She has always realized this -- and steadily, the rest of the world is recognizing it, too. Blessed with a perfect name for an actress, an endless supply of enthusiastic determination, and little desire to pursue any other career path... she has built up a very impressive resume in the latter half of a lifetime of following an impulse to be the center of attention. Mercedes does it all. She has appeared in feature films (What The Bleep? Do We Know, the Train Master series), network television (TNT's Leverage), commercials, voice-over work (notably, as Princess Rosalina in several popular Nintendo game titles), performing stand-up and sketch comedy, as a spokesperson/host, and most recently as one of the stars (and creators) of new media sensation, The Haunting Of Sunshine Girl. While truly living the dream of working full-time in the entertainment industry, Mercedes has never felt the need to leave her native Oregon for another market. She is thrilled to be able to make her living at or near home, and has the always-effervescent attitude to prove it. When not acting, she stays busy producing an insanely popular web series, The Haunting Of Sunshine Girl, which has a YouTube channel with millions of total views and subscribers worldwide. Somehow, Mercedes also finds time to serve as a resource for her fellow performers by writing a regular blog for Backstage Unscripted, and creating a vlog, called The Lazy Actor -- which she most certainly is not. This is the life she has always pictured herself living, and nothing seems to slow her down. If you want to make her really happy, have plenty of Diet Coke at the ready!
Co-Executive Producer:
2012 Sunshine Girl and The Hunt For Black Eyed Kids
Editor:
2012 Sunshine Girl and The Hunt For Black Eyed Kids
Location Manager:
2012 Sunshine Girl and The Hunt For Black Eyed Kids
2023 Time Checkers
Producer:
2012 Sunshine Girl and The Hunt For Black Eyed Kids
2023 Time Checkers
Writer:
2012 Sunshine Girl and The Hunt For Black Eyed Kids
2023 Time Checkers
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.