Melissa Leo
Acting
1960-09-14 · 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).
Filmography
Passenger
2026 · Movie
The Knife
2025 · Movie
Guns Up
2025 · Movie
King Ivory
2025 · Movie
AFTER: Poetry Destroys Silence
2024 · Movie
Long Gone Heroes
2024 · Movie
The Clean Up Crew
2024 · Movie
The Equalizer 3
2023 · Movie
Bonnie
2022 · Movie
Jane
2022 · Movie
Alone Together
2022 · Movie
Coast
2022 · Movie
Measure of Revenge
2022 · Movie
Ida Red
2021 · Movie
Thunder Force
2021 · Movie
Body Brokers
2021 · Movie
I Know This Much Is True
2020 · Series
Dolly Parton's Heartstrings
2019 · Series
Unlovable
2018 · Movie
The Equalizer 2
2018 · Movie
The Parting Glass
2018 · Movie
Mabel, Mabel Tiger Trainer
2018 · Movie
Furlough
2018 · Movie
The Ashram
2018 · Movie
Novitiate
2017 · Movie
The View from Up Here
2017 · Movie
I'm Dying Up Here
2017 · Series
The Most Hated Woman in America
2017 · Movie
Snowden
2016 · Movie
All the Way
2016 · Movie
Burn Country
2016 · Movie
London Has Fallen
2016 · Movie
The Big Short
2015 · Movie
Damnation: The Flashback
2015 · Movie
After the Spill
2015 · Movie
The Butterfly, The Harp, and The Timepiece
2015 · Movie
Wayward Pines
2015 · Series
She's The Best Thing in It
2015 · Movie
The Ever After
2015 · Movie
The Equalizer
2014 · Movie
BoJack Horseman
2014 · Series
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
2014 · Movie
Dwegons and Leprechauns
2014 · Movie
Broad City
2014 · Series
Prisoners
2013 · Movie
The Arsenio Hall Show
2013 · Series
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
2013 · Movie
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
2013 · Movie
Bottled Up
2013 · Movie
Oblivion
2013 · Movie
Olympus Has Fallen
2013 · Movie
Charlie Countryman
2013 · Movie
Francine
2012 · Movie
Why Stop Now?
2012 · Movie
Flight
2012 · Movie
The Space Between
2011 · Movie
Seven Days in Utopia
2011 · Movie
Red State
2011 · Movie
The Sea Is All I Know
2011 · Movie
Mildred Pierce
2011 · Series
The Fighter
2010 · Movie
Queen of the Lot
2010 · Movie
Welcome to the Rileys
2010 · Movie
Conviction
2010 · Movie
The Dry Land
2010 · Movie
Treme
2010 · Series
Everybody's Fine
2009 · Movie
According to Greta
2009 · Movie
Dear Lemon Lima
2009 · Movie
Veronika Decides to Die
2009 · Movie
Don McKay
2009 · Movie
True Adolescents
2009 · Movie
Stephanie's Image
2009 · Movie
The Alphabet Killer
2008 · Movie
Righteous Kill
2008 · Movie
Frozen River
2008 · Movie
Santa Mesa
2008 · Movie
Lullaby
2008 · Movie
Black Irish
2007 · Movie
Mr. Woodcock
2007 · Movie
Racing Daylight
2007 · Movie
I Believe in America
2007 · Movie
Hollywood Dreams
2007 · Movie
The Cake Eaters
2007 · Movie
Dear Lemon Lima
2007 · Movie
Stephanie Daley
2007 · Movie
Midnight Son
2007 · Movie
Bomb
2007 · Movie
One Night
2007 · Movie
The House Is Burning
2006 · Movie
Shark
2006 · Series
The Limbo Room
2006 · Movie
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
2005 · Movie
Confess
2005 · Movie
Criminal Minds
2005 · Series
American Gun
2005 · Movie
Runaway
2005 · Movie
Hide and Seek
2005 · Movie
From Other Worlds
2004 · Movie
Veronica Mars
2004 · Series
The L Word
2004 · Series
21 Grams
2003 · Movie
Cold Case
2003 · Series
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001 · Series
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000 · Series
Fear of Fiction
2000 · Movie
Homicide: The Movie
2000 · Movie
Code of Ethics
1999 · Movie
The 24 Hour Woman
1999 · Movie
Legacy
1998 · Series
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
1997 · Movie
Last Summer in the Hamptons
1995 · Movie
In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice
1995 · Movie
Garden
1995 · Movie
Scarlett
1994 · Series
The Ballad of Little Jo
1993 · Movie
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993 · Series
By a Thread
1992 · Movie
Immaculate Conception
1992 · Movie
Venice/Venice
1992 · Movie
Carolina Skeletons
1991 · Movie
The Bride in Black
1990 · Movie
Law & Order
1990 · Series
Nasty Boys
1989 · Movie
The Young Riders
1989 · Series
A Time of Destiny
1988 · Movie
Deadtime Stories
1986 · Movie
Silent Witness
1985 · Movie
Always … But Not Forever
1985 · Movie
Spenser: For Hire
1985 · Series
Streetwalkin'
1985 · Movie
The Equalizer
1985 · Series
Miami Vice
1984 · Series
I'm Only There...
1984 · Movie
The Mannequin
Movie
Ron Forever
Movie
The Rooster Prince
Movie