Melissa Leo

Melissa Leo

b. 1960 (age 66) New York City, New York, USA

Actress

American actress Melissa Chessington Leo 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

The Fighter

Frozen River

Conviction

Prisoners

Filmography

Passenger

Guns Up

Long Gone Heroes

Long Gone Heroes

King Ivory

The Clean Up Crew

The Clean Up Crew

The Knife

Draw Up & Stare

Alone Together

Jane

Measure of Revenge

Measure of Revenge

Thunder Force

Body Brokers

Ida Red

Coast

I Know This Much Is True

I Know This Much Is True

Dolly Parton's Heartstrings

Dolly Parton's Heartstrings

The Equalizer 2

The Equalizer 2

Furlough

The Ashram

Unlovable

The Parting Glass

The Parting Glass

Mabel, Mabel, Tiger Trainer

Mabel, Mabel, Tiger Trainer

The Most Hated Woman in America

The Most Hated Woman in America

Novitiate

I'm Dying Up Here

I'm Dying Up Here

The View from Up Here

The View from Up Here

Snowden

All the Way

Burn Country

Wayward Pines

After the Spill

After the Spill

She's the Best Thing in It

She's the Best Thing in It

The Butterfly, the Harp and the Timepiece

The Butterfly, the Harp and the Timepiece

Damnation: The Flashback

The Equalizer

The Angriest Man in Brooklyn

The Angriest Man in Brooklyn

The Ever After

Dwegons and Leprechauns

Dwegons and Leprechauns

Prisoners

Oblivion

Olympus Has Fallen

Olympus Has Fallen

Charlie Countryman

Charlie Countryman

Call Me Crazy: A Five Film

Call Me Crazy: A Five Film

Bottled Up

The Only Real Game

Why Stop Now?

Francine

Dear Governor Cuomo

Dear Governor Cuomo

Persephone

Red State

Mildred Pierce

Seven Days in Utopia

Seven Days in Utopia

Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best

Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best

The Sea Is All I Know

The Sea Is All I Know

Behind the Scenes with Melissa Leo

The Fighter

Conviction

Welcome to the Rileys

Welcome to the Rileys

Treme

The Space Between

The Space Between

The Dry Land

Everybody's Fine

Everybody's Fine

Veronika Decides to Die

Veronika Decides to Die

According to Greta

According to Greta

Don McKay

True Adolescents

True Adolescents

Stephanie's Image

Stephanie's Image

14th Annual Critics' Choice Awards Red Carpet Premiere

Shorts Spotlight

49o Festival Thessalonikis - 19 kinimatografistes

Frozen River

Lullaby

Santa Mesa

This Is a Story About Ted and Alice

The Cake Eaters

The Cake Eaters

Black Irish

Racing Daylight

Racing Daylight

Dear Lemon Lima

Dear Lemon Lima

I Believe in America

I Believe in America

Midnight Son

Stephanie Daley

Stephanie Daley

Hollywood Dreams

Hollywood Dreams

The House Is Burning

The House Is Burning

The Limbo Room

Falling Objects

Falling Objects

Hide and Seek

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Runaway

Confess

Patch

No Shoulder

Fear of Fiction

Fear of Fiction

The 24 Hour Woman

The 24 Hour Woman

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