Melissa Leo

Acting · 2.1 popularity

Age

Movies

113

Born: September 14, 1960
From: 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).

Works

113 films

Passenger

20267.3

The Equalizer

20147.3

The Big Short

20157.4

Prisoners

20138.1

The Equalizer 3

20237.3

The Equalizer 2

20186.8

Oblivion

20136.7

Olympus Has Fallen

20136.4

Flight

20126.9

London Has Fallen

20166.2

The Fighter

20107.4

Guns Up

20256.5

21 Grams

20037.3

Snowden

20167.1

Hide and Seek

20056.4

Righteous Kill

20085.9

Red State

20116.0

Everybody's Fine

20096.8

Thunder Force

20215.5

Novitiate

20176.5

Mr. Woodcock

20075.1

All the Way

20166.6

King Ivory

20256.8

The Most Hated Woman in America

20176.2

Ida Red

20215.7

Bonnie

20225.3

Call Me Crazy: A Five Film

20137.0

Body Brokers

20216.2

Welcome to the Rileys

20106.6

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

20057.0

The Angriest Man in Brooklyn

20145.6

Charlie Countryman

20136.4

Conviction

20107.1

Long Gone Heroes

20245.4

Unlovable

20185.6

Frozen River

20086.6

The Alphabet Killer

20085.1

Veronika Decides to Die

20095.9

According to Greta

20096.0

Measure of Revenge

20224.7

The Rooster Prince

2026

The Clean Up Crew

20245.6

The Knife

20257.2

Dwegons and Leprechauns

20141.4

Jane

20225.4

Streetwalkin'

19854.9

Alone Together

20225.1

Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy

20136.6

Seven Days in Utopia

20115.7

Confess

20054.3

American Gun

20055.7

Francine

20123.4

The Cake Eaters

20075.5

Homicide: The Movie

20006.9

In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice

19954.8

Coast

20224.6

Why Stop Now?

20125.4

Nasty Boys

19897.3

The Ballad of Little Jo

19936.0

Who Is Henry Jaglom?

19976.8

The Limbo Room

2006

The Parting Glass

20185.4

Furlough

20185.7

She's The Best Thing in It

20151.0

Bomb

2007

Burn Country

20165.0

The Mannequin

2026

Don McKay

20094.9

Dear Lemon Lima

20095.5

The Dry Land

20104.5

Last Summer in the Hamptons

19955.8

The 24 Hour Woman

19995.8

Ron Forever

2026

From Other Worlds

20043.9

Black Irish

20076.5

Dear Lemon Lima

2007

The Ashram

20185.4

Runaway

20056.5

The Space Between

20116.6

The Bride in Black

19908.0

Carolina Skeletons

19917.2

I Believe in America

200710.0

Deadtime Stories

19864.9

One Night

20076.4

Immaculate Conception

19925.4

Queen of the Lot

20102.6

Stephanie Daley

20075.8

The Ever After

20155.7

A Time of Destiny

19885.4

Hollywood Dreams

20073.1

Mabel, Mabel Tiger Trainer

2018

The House Is Burning

20066.5

Stephanie's Image

20098.0

Silent Witness

19854.7

Always … But Not Forever

19854.4

Venice/Venice

19927.0

Garden

1995

True Adolescents

20095.7

Lullaby

200810.0

Bottled Up

20135.7

Racing Daylight

20073.3

By a Thread

199210.0

The View from Up Here

20176.0

After the Spill

20157.0

Damnation: The Flashback

20151.0

Code of Ethics

19997.0

Midnight Son

20071.0

The Butterfly, The Harp, and The Timepiece

2015

Fear of Fiction

20008.0

AFTER: Poetry Destroys Silence

2024

Santa Mesa

20085.0

The Sea Is All I Know

2011

I'm Only There...

1984