Melissa Leo
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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PHOTOS
TV Series
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
7.636
Veronica Mars
7.816
Spenser: For Hire
6.677
Shark
6.8
The Young Riders
7.273
Miami Vice
7.447
Cold Case
7.8
The L Word
7.645
Criminal Minds
8.302
The Equalizer
7.197
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
7.6
Legacy
8
Scarlett
6.6
Nasty Boys
5.5
Treme
7.608
Treme
7.608
Law & Order
7.4
Mildred Pierce
7.006
Homicide: Life on the Street
8.053
I'm Dying Up Here
6.5
Law & Order
7.4
Broad City
7.1
Law & Order
7.4
The Arsenio Hall Show
5.7
I Know This Much Is True
7.564
BoJack Horseman
8.545
Dolly Parton's Heartstrings
6.8
Wayward Pines
6.866
Movies
21 Grams
7.326
Frozen River
6.6
Hide and Seek
6.329
Bonnie
5
Homicide: The Movie
6.8
Welcome to the Rileys
6.568
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
7.025
Lullaby
10
Measure of Revenge
4.773
The House Is Burning
6.313
Veronika Decides to Die
5.9
According to Greta
6.1
Everybody's Fine
6.831
Black Irish
6.5
Righteous Kill
5.886
Coast
4.6
Don McKay
4.852
Runaway
6.3
Charlie Countryman
6.395
American Gun
5.676
Conviction
7.068
The Dry Land
5
The Fighter
7.381
Deadtime Stories
4.9
Confess
4.091
Queen of the Lot
2.98
Red State
6
Dear Lemon Lima
5.483
Racing Daylight
3.3
The Space Between
6.844
Seven Days in Utopia
5.6
The Ballad of Little Jo
5.9
Oblivion
6.659
Streetwalkin'
4.5
The Sea Is All I Know
0
Francine
3.6
From Other Worlds
3.833
Fear of Fiction
0
The 24 Hour Woman
3
Always … But Not Forever
4.3
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
5.662
Prisoners
8.098
Carolina Skeletons
6.8
King Ivory
4.5
Olympus Has Fallen
6.4
Santa Mesa
5
Why Stop Now?
5.4
The Limbo Room
0
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
7
I'm Only There...
0
Last Summer in the Hamptons
5.5
Bottled Up
5.5
The View from Up Here
6
The Equalizer 3
7.305
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
6.6
A Time of Destiny
4.8
Dwegons and Leprechauns
1.2
One Night
7.3
Stephanie's Image
0
Flight
6.848
Stephanie Daley
5.9
The Equalizer
7.278
The Clean Up Crew
5.484
London Has Fallen
6.2
In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice
4
Midnight Son
1
The Ever After
5.722
She's The Best Thing in It
1
Nasty Boys
6.5
Burn Country
5
Hollywood Dreams
2.571
Snowden
7.105
The Big Short
7.357
Code of Ethics
0
All the Way
6.664
Damnation: The Flashback
1
The Cake Eaters
5.496
The Knife
0
Long Gone Heroes
5.7
By a Thread
0
The Most Hated Woman in America
6.158
Novitiate
6.4
I Believe in America
0
The Bride in Black
6
True Adolescents
5.9
Immaculate Conception
5.2
Venice/Venice
6.5
The Ashram
5.587
The Equalizer 2
6.8
Dear Lemon Lima
0
Unlovable
5.7
Furlough
5.686
After the Spill
7
The Parting Glass
5.412
Mabel, Mabel Tiger Trainer
0
Silent Witness
4.875
Mr. Woodcock
5.053
Body Brokers
6.2
The Alphabet Killer
5.1
The Butterfly, The Harp, and The Timepiece
0
Bomb
0
Thunder Force
5.5
Ida Red
5.8
Alone Together
5.123
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
6.6
Jane
5.9
AFTER: Poetry Destroys Silence
0
Passenger
0
Guns Up
6.8
Ron Forever
0