Melissa Leo
Acting
- Born:
- 1960-09-14
- Place of birth:
- Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Melissa Leo (born September 14, 1960) is an American actress. She made her acting debut in 1985, for which she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Ingenue/Woman in the Drama Series “All My Children”. Her most notable role as was as Det. Sgt. Kay Howard on “Homicide: Life on the Street” for the show's first five seasons from 1993–1997. Following several films, Leo received critical acclaim and national attention in earning several nominations and awards, including an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. Leo earned several awards for her role as Alice Ward in the critically acclaimed film, “The Fighter” (2010). For this role Leo won the Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Leo currently appears on the television series Treme. Leo currently resides in Stone Ridge, New York and two sons John Matthew Heard (born 1987), and Adam (adopted - born 1984).
Known For
Filmography
Passenger
The Knife
Guns Up
King Ivory
AFTER: Poetry Destroys Silence
The Clean Up Crew
Long Gone Heroes
The Equalizer 3
Bonnie
Jane
Alone Together
Coast
Measure of Revenge
Ida Red
Thunder Force
Body Brokers
I Know This Much Is True
Dolly Parton's Heartstrings
Unlovable
The Equalizer 2
The Parting Glass
Mabel, Mabel Tiger Trainer
Furlough
The Ashram
The View from Up Here
Novitiate
I'm Dying Up Here
The Most Hated Woman in America
Snowden
All the Way
Burn Country
London Has Fallen
The Big Short
Damnation: The Flashback
After the Spill
The Butterfly, The Harp, and The Timepiece
Wayward Pines
She's The Best Thing in It
The Ever After
The Equalizer
BoJack Horseman
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
Dwegons and Leprechauns
Broad City
Prisoners
The Arsenio Hall Show
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
Bottled Up
Oblivion
Olympus Has Fallen
Charlie Countryman
Why Stop Now?
Flight
Francine
The Space Between
Seven Days in Utopia
Red State
The Sea Is All I Know
Mildred Pierce
The Fighter
Queen of the Lot
Welcome to the Rileys
Conviction
The Dry Land
Treme
Everybody's Fine
According to Greta
Dear Lemon Lima
Veronika Decides to Die
Don McKay
True Adolescents
Stephanie's Image
The Alphabet Killer
Righteous Kill
Frozen River
Santa Mesa
Lullaby
Black Irish
Mr. Woodcock
Racing Daylight
I Believe in America
Hollywood Dreams
The Cake Eaters
Dear Lemon Lima
Stephanie Daley
Midnight Son
Bomb
One Night
The House Is Burning
Shark
The Limbo Room
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Confess
Criminal Minds
American Gun
Runaway
Hide and Seek
From Other Worlds
Veronica Mars
The L Word
21 Grams
Cold Case
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Fear of Fiction
Homicide: The Movie
Code of Ethics
The 24 Hour Woman
Legacy
Under the bridge
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
Last Summer in the Hamptons
In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice
Garden
Scarlett
The Ballad of Little Jo
Homicide: Life on the Street
By a Thread
Immaculate Conception
Venice/Venice
Carolina Skeletons
The Bride in Black
Law & Order
Nasty Boys
The Young Riders
A Time of Destiny
Deadtime Stories
Silent Witness
Always … But Not Forever
Streetwalkin'
Spenser: For Hire
The Equalizer
Miami Vice
I'm Only There...
Ron Forever
The Rooster Prince
The Mannequin
Supermax