Melissa Leo
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).
Personal info
Gender
Female
Birthday
1960-09-14
Place of birth
New York City, New York, USA
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Cast
21 Grams
2003
7.32
Frozen River
2008
6.64
Hide and Seek
2005
6.33
Bonnie
2022
5.00
Homicide: The Movie
2000
7.00
Welcome to the Rileys
2010
6.60
Lullaby
2008
10.00
Measure of Revenge
2022
4.70
The House Is Burning
2006
6.60
Veronika Decides to Die
2009
5.90
According to Greta
2009
6.10
Everybody's Fine
2009
6.80
Black Irish
2007
6.70
Righteous Kill
2008
5.90
Coast
2022
4.60
Don McKay
2009
4.96
Runaway
2005
6.30
Charlie Countryman
2013
6.41
American Gun
2005
5.60
Conviction
2010
7.06
The Dry Land
2010
5.00
The Fighter
2010
7.38
Deadtime Stories
1986
5.00
Confess
2005
4.40
Queen of the Lot
2010
3.50
Red State
2011
6.00
Dear Lemon Lima
2009
5.60
Racing Daylight
2007
3.30
The Space Between
2011
7.20
Seven Days in Utopia
2011
5.60
The Ballad of Little Jo
1993
5.94
Oblivion
2013
6.65
Streetwalkin'
1985
4.33
The Sea Is All I Know
2011
0.00
Francine
2012
3.60
From Other Worlds
2004
4.40
Fear of Fiction
2000
0.00
The 24 Hour Woman
1999
3.00
Always … But Not Forever
1985
4.30
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
2014
5.70
Prisoners
2013
8.10
Carolina Skeletons
1991
6.80
King Ivory
2025
0.00
Olympus Has Fallen
2013
6.40
Santa Mesa
2008
5.00
Why Stop Now?
2012
5.30
The Limbo Room
2006
0.00
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
2013
6.98
I'm Only There...
1984
0.00
Last Summer in the Hamptons
1995
5.50
Bottled Up
2013
5.50
The View from Up Here
2017
6.00
The Equalizer 3
2023
7.32
A Time of Destiny
1988
4.80
Dwegons and Leprechauns
2014
1.20
One Night
2007
7.30
Stephanie's Image
2009
0.00
Flight
2012
6.84
Stephanie Daley
2007
5.90
The Equalizer
2014
7.28
The Clean Up Crew
2024
5.44
London Has Fallen
2016
6.21
Midnight Son
2007
1.00
The Ever After
2015
5.80
She's The Best Thing in It
2015
1.00
Nasty Boys
1989
6.50
Burn Country
2016
5.10
Hollywood Dreams
2007
2.80
Snowden
2016
7.11
The Big Short
2015
7.35
Code of Ethics
1999
0.00
All the Way
2016
6.70
Damnation: The Flashback
2015
1.00
The Cake Eaters
2007
5.60
The Knife
2024
8.00
Long Gone Heroes
2024
5.50
By a Thread
1992
0.00
The Most Hated Woman in America
2017
6.20
Novitiate
2017
6.40
I Believe in America
2007
0.00
The Bride in Black
1990
6.00
True Adolescents
2009
5.90
Immaculate Conception
1992
5.20
Venice/Venice
1992
8.00
The Ashram
2018
5.70
The Equalizer 2
2018
6.77
Dear Lemon Lima
2007
0.00
Unlovable
2018
5.70
Furlough
2018
5.70
After the Spill
2015
7.00
The Parting Glass
2018
5.70
Mabel, Mabel Tiger Trainer
2018
0.00
Silent Witness
1985
4.10
Mr. Woodcock
2007
5.05
Body Brokers
2021
6.20
The Alphabet Killer
2008
5.10
Bomb
2007
0.00
Thunder Force
2021
5.50
Ida Red
2021
5.80
Alone Together
2022
5.20
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
1997
6.60
Jane
2022
5.70
AFTER: Poetry Destroys Silence
2024
0.00