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
Spenser: For Hire
6.7
Shark
6.75
Veronica Mars
7.8
The Young Riders
7.286
Miami Vice
7.451
Cold Case
7.774
The L Word
7.622
Criminal Minds
8.309
The Equalizer
7.2
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
7.565
Legacy
8
Scarlett
6.6
Nasty Boys
5.5
Treme
7.614
Treme
7.614
Law & Order
7.4
Mildred Pierce
7
Homicide: Life on the Street
8.1
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
7.576
BoJack Horseman
8.545
Dolly Parton's Heartstrings
6.8
Wayward Pines
6.872
Movies
21 Grams
7.326
Frozen River
6.634
Hide and Seek
6.325
Bonnie
5
Homicide: The Movie
6.81
Welcome to the Rileys
6.58
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
7.027
Measure of Revenge
4.7
Lullaby
10
The House Is Burning
6.6
Veronika Decides to Die
5.914
According to Greta
6.1
Everybody's Fine
6.827
Black Irish
6.5
Righteous Kill
5.89
Coast
4.6
Don McKay
4.852
Runaway
6.3
Charlie Countryman
6.394
American Gun
5.676
Conviction
7.067
The Dry Land
5
The Fighter
7.382
Deadtime Stories
4.9
Confess
4.091
Queen of the Lot
2.98
Red State
6.039
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
6.655
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
5.664
Prisoners
8.098
Carolina Skeletons
6.8
King Ivory
4
Olympus Has Fallen
6.4
Santa Mesa
5
Why Stop Now?
5.352
The Limbo Room
0
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
6.976
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
7.308
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
6.845
Stephanie Daley
5.9
The Equalizer
7.28
The Clean Up Crew
5.4
London Has Fallen
6.214
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
7.356
Code of Ethics
0
All the Way
6.7
Damnation: The Flashback
1
The Cake Eaters
5.496
The Knife
8
Long Gone Heroes
5.786
By a Thread
0
The Most Hated Woman in America
6.151
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
6.772
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
4.1
Mr. Woodcock
5.047
Body Brokers
6.2
The Alphabet Killer
5.1
The Butterfly, The Harp, and The Timepiece
0
Bomb
0
Thunder Force
5.493
Ida Red
5.8
Alone Together
5.1
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
6.6
Jane
5.864
AFTER: Poetry Destroys Silence
0
Passenger
0
Guns Up
5.333
Ron Forever
0