A stage actress, Urecal made her screen debut in 1934. For the remainder of her career and two hundred plus movies, she played cleaning women, landladies, shopkeepers and the like. She was known as a Marjorie Main type actress and later went on to a career in television playing in such shows as "Tugboat Annie" and "Peter Gunn." Minerva claimed her name was an amalgam of her hometown, Eureka, California.

Minerva Urecal, nascuda Florence Minerva Dunnuck (Eureka, Califòrnia, 21 de setembre de 1894 - Glendale, Califòrnia, 26 de febrer de 1966), va ser una intèrpret de teatre i ràdio nord-americà, així com una actriu de personatges en pel·lícules de Hollywood i en diverses sèries de televisió des de principis dels anys cinquanta fins al 1965.