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).

Known For: Acting

Born: New York City, New York, USA, 1960-09-14

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1984	I'm Only There...	Maggie	0
2	1985	Streetwalkin'	Cookie	45
3	1985	Always … But Not Forever	Peggy	43
4	1985	Silent Witness	Patti Mullen	49
5	1986	Deadtime Stories	Judith 'MaMa' Baer	49
6	1988	A Time of Destiny	Josie Larraneta	48
7	1989	Nasty Boys	Katie Morrissey	65
8	1990	The Bride in Black	Mary Margaret	60
9	1991	Carolina Skeletons	Cassie	68
10	1992	Venice/Venice	Peggy	65
11	1992	Immaculate Conception	Hannah	52
12	1992	By a Thread	Helen	0
13	1993	The Ballad of Little Jo	Beatrice Grey	59
14	1995	In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice	Carol Manning	40
15	1995	Last Summer in the Hamptons	Trish Axelrod	55
16	1997	Who Is Henry Jaglom?	Self	66
17	1999	The 24 Hour Woman	Dr. Suzanne Pincus	30
18	1999	Code of Ethics	Jo DeAngelo	0
19	2000	Homicide: The Movie	Kay Howard	68
20	2000	Fear of Fiction	Sigrid Anderssen	0
21	2003	21 Grams	Marianne Jordan	73
22	2004	From Other Worlds	Miriam	38
23	2005	Confess	Agnes Lessor	41
24	2005	Hide and Seek	Laura	63
25	2005	Runaway	Lisa Adler	63
26	2005	American Gun	Louise	57
27	2005	The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada	Rachel	70
28	2006	The Limbo Room	KC Collins	0
29	2006	The House Is Burning	Mrs. Miller	63
30	2007	One Night	Wendy	73
31	2007	Bomb		0
32	2007	Midnight Son	Rita	10
33	2007	Stephanie Daley	Miri Daley	59
34	2007	Dear Lemon Lima	Mrs. Howard	0
35	2007	The Cake Eaters	Ceci Kimbrough	55
36	2007	Hollywood Dreams	Aunt Bee	26
37	2007	I Believe in America	Soto	0
38	2007	Racing Daylight	Sadie / Anna	33
39	2007	Mr. Woodcock	Sally Jansen	50
40	2007	Black Irish	Margaret McKay	65
41	2008	Lullaby	Stephanie	100
42	2008	Santa Mesa	Maggie	50
43	2008	Frozen River	Ray Eddy	66
44	2008	Righteous Kill	Cheryl	59
45	2008	The Alphabet Killer	Kathy Walsh	51
46	2009	Stephanie's Image	Stephanie	0
47	2009	True Adolescents	Sharon Mitchell	59
48	2009	Don McKay	Marie	49
49	2009	Veronika Decides to Die	Mari	59
50	2009	Dear Lemon Lima	Mrs. Howard	55
51	2009	According to Greta	Karen	61
52	2009	Everybody's Fine	Colleen	68
53	2010	The Dry Land	Martha	50
54	2010	Conviction	Nancy Taylor	71
55	2010	Welcome to the Rileys	Lois Riley	66
56	2010	Queen of the Lot	Aunt Bee	30
57	2010	The Fighter	Alice Ward	74
58	2011	The Sea Is All I Know	Sara	0
59	2011	Red State	Sara	60
60	2011	Seven Days in Utopia	Lily	56
61	2011	The Space Between	Montine	68
62	2012	Why Stop Now?	Penny	54
63	2012	Francine	Francine	36
64	2012	Flight	Ellen Block	68
65	2013	Charlie Countryman	Kate	64
66	2013	Olympus Has Fallen	Secretary of Defense Ruth McMillan	64
67	2013	Oblivion	Sally	67
68	2013	Bottled Up	Fay	55
69	2013	Call Me Crazy: A Five Film	Robin	70
70	2013	Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy	Narrator (voice)	66
71	2013	Prisoners	Holly Jones	81
72	2014	Dwegons and Leprechauns	Grandma Fitz / Butterfly McDweg / Mrs. Fitzgerald	12
73	2014	The Angriest Man in Brooklyn	Bette Altmann	57
74	2014	The Equalizer	Susan Plummer	73
75	2015	The Ever After	Penny	57
76	2015	She's The Best Thing in It	Self	10
77	2015	The Butterfly, The Harp, and The Timepiece	Papillon	0
78	2015	After the Spill	Narrator	70
79	2015	Damnation: The Flashback	Noda Marra	10
80	2015	The Big Short	Georgia Hale	74
81	2016	London Has Fallen	Secretary of Defense Ruth McMillan	62
82	2016	Burn Country	Gloria	50
83	2016	All the Way	Lady Bird Johnson	67
84	2016	Snowden	Laura Poitras	71
85	2017	The Most Hated Woman in America	Madalyn Murray O'Hair	62
86	2017	The View from Up Here		60
87	2017	Novitiate	Reverend Mother	64
88	2018	The Ashram	Chandra	56
89	2018	Furlough	Joan Anderson	57
90	2018	Mabel, Mabel Tiger Trainer	Narrator	0
91	2018	The Parting Glass	Al	54
92	2018	The Equalizer 2	Susan Plummer	68
93	2018	Unlovable	Maddie	57
94	2021	Body Brokers	Dr. White	62
95	2021	Thunder Force	Allie	55
96	2021	Ida Red	Ida ‘Red’ Walker	58
97	2022	Measure of Revenge	Lillian	48
98	2022	Coast	Olivia	46
99	2022	Alone Together	Deborah	51
100	2022	Jane	Principal Rhodes	59
101	2022	Bonnie	Self	50
102	2023	The Equalizer 3	Susan Plummer	73
103	2024	The Knife	Detective Carlsen	80
104	2024	The Clean Up Crew	Siobhan	54
105	2024	Long Gone Heroes	Olivia	58
106	2024	AFTER: Poetry Destroys Silence		0
107	2025	King Ivory	Ginger Greene	45
108		Passenger		0
109	2025	Guns Up	Michael	64
110		Ron Forever	Hilda	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1984	Miami Vice		75
2	1985	The Equalizer	Irina Dzershinsky	72
3	1985	Spenser: For Hire		67
4	1989	The Young Riders	Emma Shannon	73
5	1989	Nasty Boys	Katie Morrissey	55
6	1990	Law & Order	Donna Cheponis	74
7	1990	Law & Order	Defense Attorney Alice Sutton	74
8	1990	Law & Order	Sherri Quinn	74
9	1993	Homicide: Life on the Street	Kay Howard	80
10	1994	Scarlett		66
11	1998	Legacy		80
12	2000	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Sybil Perez	76
13	2001	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Maureen Curtis	76
14	2003	Cold Case	Tayna Raymes (1994 & 2007)	78
15	2004	The L Word	Winnie Mann	76
16	2004	Veronica Mars	Julia Smith	78
17	2005	Criminal Minds	Sheriff Georgia Davis	83
18	2006	Shark		68
19	2010	Treme		76
20	2010	Treme	Toni Bernette	76
21	2011	Mildred Pierce	Lucy Gessler	70
22	2013	The Arsenio Hall Show	Self	57
23	2014	Broad City	Lori	71
24	2014	BoJack Horseman	Ma Nguyen (voice)	85
25	2015	Wayward Pines	Nurse Pam	69
26	2017	I'm Dying Up Here	Goldie	65
27	2019	Dolly Parton's Heartstrings	Amelia Meegers	68
28	2020	I Know This Much Is True	Concettina Ipolita Tempesta 'Ma' Birdsey	76

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