
Melissa Leo
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- September 14, 1960 (age 66)
- Birthplace
- 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).
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Filmography

Ron Forever
Movie · as Hilda
The Rooster Prince
Movie · as Elaine
The Mannequin
Movie
Supermax
Movie
Mother Wolf
Movie · as Babs

Passenger
Movie · as Diana Larson

King Ivory
Movie · as Ginger Greene

The Knife
Movie · as Detective Carlsen

Guns Up
Movie · as Michael Temple

The Clean Up Crew
Movie · as Siobhan

Long Gone Heroes
Movie · as Olivia

AFTER: Poetry Destroys Silence
Movie

The Equalizer 3
Movie · as Susan Plummer

Bonnie
Movie · as Self

Measure of Revenge
Movie · as Lillian

Coast
Movie · as Olivia

Alone Together
Movie · as Deborah

Jane
Movie · as Principal Rhodes

Body Brokers
Movie · as Dr. White

Thunder Force
Movie · as Allie

Ida Red
Movie · as Ida ‘Red’ Walker

I Know This Much Is True
TV · as Concettina Ipolita Tempesta 'Ma' Birdsey · 6 eps

Dolly Parton's Heartstrings
TV · as Amelia Meegers · 1 ep

The Ashram
Movie · as Chandra

The Equalizer 2
Movie · as Susan Plummer

Unlovable
Movie · as Maddie

Furlough
Movie · as Joan Anderson

The Parting Glass
Movie · as Al

Mabel, Mabel Tiger Trainer
Movie · as Narrator

The View from Up Here
Movie · as Claire

The Most Hated Woman in America
Movie · as Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Novitiate
Movie · as Reverend Mother

I'm Dying Up Here
TV · as Goldie · 20 eps

London Has Fallen
Movie · as Secretary of Defense Ruth McMillan

Burn Country
Movie · as Gloria

Snowden
Movie · as Laura Poitras

All the Way
Movie · as Lady Bird Johnson

The Ever After
Movie · as Penny

She's The Best Thing in It
Movie · as Self

The Big Short
Movie · as Georgia Hale
Damnation: The Flashback
Movie · as Noda Marra

After the Spill
Movie · as Narrator

The Butterfly, The Harp, and The Timepiece
Movie · as Papillon

Wayward Pines
TV · as Nurse Pam · 11 eps

The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
Movie · as Bette Altmann

Dwegons and Leprechauns
Movie · as Grandma Fitz / Butterfly McDweg / Mrs. Fitzgerald

The Equalizer
Movie · as Susan Plummer

Broad City
TV · as Lori · 1 ep

BoJack Horseman
TV · as Ma Nguyen (voice) · 2 eps

Charlie Countryman
Movie · as Kate

Oblivion
Movie · as Sally

Prisoners
Movie · as Holly Jones

Olympus Has Fallen
Movie · as Secretary of Defense Ruth McMillan

Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
Movie · as Robin

Bottled Up
Movie · as Fay

Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
Movie · as Self - Narrator (voice)

The Arsenio Hall Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Francine
Movie · as Francine

Why Stop Now?
Movie · as Penny

Flight
Movie · as Ellen Block

Red State
Movie · as Sara

The Space Between
Movie · as Montine

Seven Days in Utopia
Movie · as Lily

The Sea Is All I Know
Movie · as Sara

Mildred Pierce
TV · as Lucy Gessler · 5 eps

Welcome to the Rileys
Movie · as Lois Riley

Conviction
Movie · as Nancy Taylor

The Dry Land
Movie · as Martha

The Fighter
Movie · as Alice Ward

Queen of the Lot
Movie · as Aunt Bee

Treme
TV · as Toni Bernette · 36 eps

Veronika Decides to Die
Movie · as Mari

According to Greta
Movie · as Karen

Everybody's Fine
Movie · as Colleen

Don McKay
Movie · as Marie

Dear Lemon Lima
Movie · as Mrs. Howard

Stephanie's Image
Movie · as Stephanie

True Adolescents
Movie · as Sharon Mitchell

Frozen River
Movie · as Ray Eddy

Lullaby
Movie · as Stephanie

Righteous Kill
Movie · as Cheryl

Santa Mesa
Movie · as Maggie

The Alphabet Killer
Movie · as Kathy Walsh

Black Irish
Movie · as Margaret McKay

Racing Daylight
Movie · as Sadie / Anna
One Night
Movie · as Wendy

Stephanie Daley
Movie · as Miri Daley

Midnight Son
Movie · as Rita

Hollywood Dreams
Movie · as Aunt Bee

The Cake Eaters
Movie · as Ceci Kimbrough

I Believe in America
Movie · as Soto

Dear Lemon Lima
Movie · as Mrs. Howard

Mr. Woodcock
Movie · as Sally Jansen
Bomb
Movie

The House Is Burning
Movie · as Mrs. Miller

The Limbo Room
Movie · as KC Collins

Shark
TV · as Elizabeth Rourke · 1 ep

Hide and Seek
Movie · as Laura

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Movie · as Rachel

Runaway
Movie · as Lisa Adler

American Gun
Movie · as Louise

Confess
Movie · as Agnes Lessor

Criminal Minds
TV · as Sheriff Georgia Davis · 1 ep

From Other Worlds
Movie · as Miriam

Veronica Mars
TV · as Julia Smith · 1 ep

The L Word
TV · as Winnie Mann · 3 eps

21 Grams
Movie · as Marianne Jordan

Cold Case
TV · as Tayna Raymes (1994 & 2007) · 1 ep

Law & Order: Criminal Intent
TV · as Maureen Curtis · 1 ep

Homicide: The Movie
Movie · as Kay Howard

Fear of Fiction
Movie · as Sigrid Anderssen

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
TV · as Sybil Perez · 1 ep

The 24 Hour Woman
Movie · as Dr. Suzanne Pincus

Code of Ethics
Movie · as Jo DeAngelo
Under the bridge
Movie · as Kathy

Legacy
TV · as Emma Bradford · 2 eps

Who Is Henry Jaglom?
Movie · as Self

Last Summer in the Hamptons
Movie · as Trish Axelrod

In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice
Movie · as Carol Manning
Garden
Movie · as Elizabeth

Scarlett
TV · as Suellen O'Hara Benteen · 2 eps

The Ballad of Little Jo
Movie · as Beatrice Grey

Homicide: Life on the Street
TV · as Kay Howard · 77 eps

By a Thread
Movie · as Helen

Immaculate Conception
Movie · as Hannah

Venice/Venice
Movie · as Peggy

Carolina Skeletons
Movie · as Cassie

The Bride in Black
Movie · as Mary Margaret

Law & Order
TV · as Donna Cheponis, Defense Attorney Alice Sutton, Sherri Quinn · 1 ep

Nasty Boys
Movie · as Katie Morrissey

The Young Riders
TV · as Emma Shannon · 24 eps

A Time of Destiny
Movie · as Josie Larraneta

Deadtime Stories
Movie · as Judith 'MaMa' Baer

Streetwalkin'
Movie · as Cookie

Always … But Not Forever
Movie · as Peggy

Silent Witness
Movie · as Patti Mullen

Spenser: For Hire
TV · 1 ep

The Equalizer
TV · as Irina Dzershinsky · 1 ep

I'm Only There...
Movie · as Maggie

Miami Vice
TV · as Kathleen Gilfords · 1 ep



