Melissa Leo
Acteur·rice
14 septembre 1960 · 65 years old
Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
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
As an actor
Ron Forever
Hilda
The Rooster Prince
Elaine
The Mannequin
Passenger
2026 · Diana
King Ivory
2025 · Ginger Greene
The Knife
2025 · Detective Carlsen
Guns Up
2025 · Michael Temple
The Clean Up Crew
2024 · Siobhan
Long Gone Heroes
2024 · Olivia
AFTER: Poetry Destroys Silence
2024
The Equalizer 3
2023 · Susan Plummer
Bonnie
2022 · Self
Measure of Revenge
2022 · Lillian
Coast
2022 · Olivia
Alone Together
2022 · Deborah
Jane
2022 · Principal Rhodes
Body Brokers
2021 · Dr. White
Thunder Force
2021 · Allie
Ida Red
2021 · Ida ‘Red’ Walker
I Know This Much Is True
2020 · Concettina Ipolita Tempesta 'Ma' Birdsey
Dolly Parton's Heartstrings
2019 · Amelia Meegers
The Ashram
2018 · Chandra
The Equalizer 2
2018 · Susan Plummer
Unlovable
2018 · Maddie
Furlough
2018 · Joan Anderson
The Parting Glass
2018 · Al
Mabel, Mabel Tiger Trainer
2018 · Narrator
The View from Up Here
2017 · Claire
The Most Hated Woman in America
2017 · Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Novitiate
2017 · Reverend Mother
I'm Dying Up Here
2017 · Goldie
London Has Fallen
2016 · Secretary of Defense Ruth McMillan
Burn Country
2016 · Gloria
Snowden
2016 · Laura Poitras
All the Way
2016 · Lady Bird Johnson
The Ever After
2015 · Penny
She's The Best Thing in It
2015 · Self
The Big Short
2015 · Georgia Hale
Damnation: The Flashback
2015 · Noda Marra
After the Spill
2015 · Narrator
The Butterfly, The Harp, and The Timepiece
2015 · Papillon
Wayward Pines
2015 · Nurse Pam
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
2014 · Bette Altmann
Dwegons and Leprechauns
2014 · Grandma Fitz / Butterfly McDweg / Mrs. Fitzgerald
The Equalizer
2014 · Susan Plummer
Broad City
2014 · Lori
BoJack Horseman
2014 · Ma Nguyen (voice)
Charlie Countryman
2013 · Kate
Oblivion
2013 · Sally
Prisoners
2013 · Holly Jones
Olympus Has Fallen
2013 · Secretary of Defense Ruth McMillan
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
2013 · Robin
Bottled Up
2013 · Fay
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
2013 · Self - Narrator (voice)
The Arsenio Hall Show
2013 · Self
Francine
2012 · Francine
Why Stop Now?
2012 · Penny
Flight
2012 · Ellen Block
Red State
2011 · Sara
The Space Between
2011 · Montine
Seven Days in Utopia
2011 · Lily
The Sea Is All I Know
2011 · Sara
Mildred Pierce
2011 · Lucy Gessler
Welcome to the Rileys
2010 · Lois Riley
Conviction
2010 · Nancy Taylor
The Dry Land
2010 · Martha
The Fighter
2010 · Alice Ward
Queen of the Lot
2010 · Aunt Bee
Treme
2010 · Toni Bernette
Veronika Decides to Die
2009 · Mari
According to Greta
2009 · Karen
Everybody's Fine
2009 · Colleen
Don McKay
2009 · Marie
Dear Lemon Lima
2009 · Mrs. Howard
Stephanie's Image
2009 · Stephanie
True Adolescents
2009 · Sharon Mitchell
Frozen River
2008 · Ray Eddy
Lullaby
2008 · Stephanie
Righteous Kill
2008 · Cheryl
Santa Mesa
2008 · Maggie
The Alphabet Killer
2008 · Kathy Walsh
Black Irish
2007 · Margaret McKay
Racing Daylight
2007 · Sadie / Anna
One Night
2007 · Wendy
Stephanie Daley
2007 · Miri Daley
Midnight Son
2007 · Rita
Hollywood Dreams
2007 · Aunt Bee
The Cake Eaters
2007 · Ceci Kimbrough
I Believe in America
2007 · Soto
Dear Lemon Lima
2007 · Mrs. Howard
Mr. Woodcock
2007 · Sally Jansen
Bomb
2007
The House Is Burning
2006 · Mrs. Miller
The Limbo Room
2006 · KC Collins
Shark
2006 · Elizabeth Rourke
Hide and Seek
2005 · Laura
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
2005 · Rachel
Runaway
2005 · Lisa Adler
American Gun
2005 · Louise
Confess
2005 · Agnes Lessor
Criminal Minds
2005 · Sheriff Georgia Davis
From Other Worlds
2004 · Miriam
Veronica Mars
2004 · Julia Smith
The L Word
2004 · Winnie Mann
21 Grams
2003 · Marianne Jordan
Cold Case
2003 · Tayna Raymes (1994 & 2007)
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001 · Maureen Curtis
Homicide: The Movie
2000 · Kay Howard
Fear of Fiction
2000 · Sigrid Anderssen
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000 · Sybil Perez
The 24 Hour Woman
1999 · Dr. Suzanne Pincus
Code of Ethics
1999 · Jo DeAngelo
Legacy
1998
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
1997 · Self
Last Summer in the Hamptons
1995 · Trish Axelrod
In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice
1995 · Carol Manning
Garden
1995 · Elizabeth
Scarlett
1994 · Suellen O'Hara Benteen
The Ballad of Little Jo
1993 · Beatrice Grey
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993 · Kay Howard
By a Thread
1992 · Helen
Immaculate Conception
1992 · Hannah
Venice/Venice
1992 · Peggy
Carolina Skeletons
1991 · Cassie
The Bride in Black
1990 · Mary Margaret
Law & Order
1990 · Donna Cheponis, Defense Attorney Alice Sutton, Sherri Quinn
Nasty Boys
1989 · Katie Morrissey
The Young Riders
1989 · Emma Shannon
A Time of Destiny
1988 · Josie Larraneta
Deadtime Stories
1986 · Judith 'MaMa' Baer
Streetwalkin'
1985 · Cookie
Always … But Not Forever
1985 · Peggy
Silent Witness
1985 · Patti Mullen
Spenser: For Hire
1985
The Equalizer
1985 · Irina Dzershinsky
I'm Only There...
1984 · Maggie
Miami Vice
1984 · Kathleen Gilfords