Melissa Leo
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Melissa Leo

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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).

Films Featuring Melissa Leo

21 Grams

20037.3

Frozen River

20086.6

Hide and Seek

20056.3

Bonnie

20225.3

Homicide: The Movie

20006.9

Welcome to the Rileys

20106.6

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

20057.0

Lullaby

200810.0

Measure of Revenge

20224.7

The House Is Burning

20066.5

Veronika Decides to Die

20095.9

According to Greta

20096.0

Everybody's Fine

20096.8

Black Irish

20076.5

Righteous Kill

20085.9

Coast

20224.6

Don McKay

20094.9

Runaway

20056.5

Charlie Countryman

20136.4

American Gun

20055.7

Conviction

20107.1

The Dry Land

20104.5

The Fighter

20107.4

Deadtime Stories

19864.9

Confess

20054.3

Queen of the Lot

20102.6

Red State

20116.0

Dear Lemon Lima

20095.5

Racing Daylight

20073.3

The Space Between

20116.6

Seven Days in Utopia

20115.7

The Ballad of Little Jo

19936.1

Oblivion

20136.7

Streetwalkin'

19854.9

The Sea Is All I Know

2011

Francine

20123.4

From Other Worlds

20043.9

Fear of Fiction

20008.0

The 24 Hour Woman

19995.8

Always … But Not Forever

19854.4

The Angriest Man in Brooklyn

20145.6

Prisoners

20138.1

Carolina Skeletons

19917.2

King Ivory

20256.9

Olympus Has Fallen

20136.4

Santa Mesa

20085.0

Why Stop Now?

20125.4

The Limbo Room

2006

Call Me Crazy: A Five Film

20137.0

I'm Only There...

1984

Last Summer in the Hamptons

19955.8

Bottled Up

20135.7

The View from Up Here

20176.0

The Equalizer 3

20237.3

Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy

20136.6

A Time of Destiny

19885.4

Dwegons and Leprechauns

20141.4

One Night

One Night

20076.4

Stephanie's Image

20098.0

Flight

20126.9

Stephanie Daley

20075.8

The Equalizer

20147.3

The Clean Up Crew

20245.6

London Has Fallen

20166.2

In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice

19954.8

Midnight Son

20071.0

The Ever After

20155.7

She's The Best Thing in It

20151.0

Nasty Boys

19897.3

Burn Country

20165.0

Hollywood Dreams

20073.1

Snowden

20167.1

The Big Short

20157.4

Code of Ethics

19997.0

All the Way

20166.6

Damnation: The Flashback

Damnation: The Flashback

20151.0

The Cake Eaters

20075.5

The Knife

20257.2

Long Gone Heroes

20245.4

By a Thread

199210.0

The Most Hated Woman in America

20176.2

Novitiate

20176.5

I Believe in America

200710.0

The Bride in Black

19908.0

True Adolescents

20095.7

Immaculate Conception

19925.4

Venice/Venice

19927.0

The Ashram

20185.4

The Equalizer 2

20186.8

Dear Lemon Lima

2007

Unlovable

20185.6

Furlough

20185.7

After the Spill

20157.0

The Parting Glass

20185.4

Mabel, Mabel Tiger Trainer

2018

Silent Witness

19854.7

Mr. Woodcock

20075.1

Body Brokers

20216.2

The Alphabet Killer

20085.1

The Butterfly, The Harp, and The Timepiece

2015

Bomb

Bomb

2007

Thunder Force

20215.5

Ida Red

20215.7

Alone Together

20225.1

Who Is Henry Jaglom?

19976.8

Jane

20225.4

AFTER: Poetry Destroys Silence

2024

Passenger

20267.3

Guns Up

20256.5

Ron Forever

The Rooster Prince

The Rooster Prince

The Mannequin

The Mannequin

Garden

Garden

1995