Actor
Melissa Leo
Known for Acting
Born 1960-09-14 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Age 65
Mostly Horror, Thriller
1Films in catalog
113Credits
1984 to 2026Years active
68Trailers on Reactr
Biography
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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The Knife
2025 · Trailer
as Detective Carlsen
Guns Up
2025 · Trailer
as Michael Temple
King Ivory
2025 · Trailer
as Ginger Greene
AFTER: Poetry Destroys Silence
2024
Long Gone Heroes
2024 · Trailer
as Olivia
The Clean Up Crew
2024 · Trailer
as Siobhan
The Equalizer 3
2023 · Trailer
as Susan Plummer
Bonnie
2022
as Self
Jane
2022 · Trailer
as Principal Rhodes
Alone Together
2022 · Trailer
as Deborah
Coast
2022 · Trailer
as Olivia
Measure of Revenge
2022 · Trailer
as Lillian
Ida Red
2021 · Trailer
as Ida ‘Red’ Walker
Thunder Force
2021 · Trailer
as Allie
Body Brokers
2021 · Trailer
as Dr. White
Unlovable
2018 · Trailer
as Maddie
The Equalizer 2
2018 · Trailer
as Susan Plummer
The Parting Glass
2018 · Trailer
as Al
Mabel, Mabel Tiger Trainer
2018
as Narrator
Furlough
2018 · Trailer
as Joan Anderson
The Ashram
2018 · Trailer
as Chandra
Novitiate
2017 · Trailer
as Reverend Mother
The View from Up Here
2017
as Claire
The Most Hated Woman in America
2017 · Trailer
as Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Snowden
2016 · Trailer
as Laura Poitras
All the Way
2016 · Trailer
as Lady Bird Johnson
Burn Country
2016 · Trailer
as Gloria
London Has Fallen
2016 · Trailer
as Secretary of Defense Ruth McMillan
The Big Short
2015 · Trailer
as Georgia Hale
Damnation: The Flashback
2015
as Noda Marra
After the Spill
2015
as Narrator
The Butterfly, The Harp, and The Timepiece
2015
as Papillon
She's The Best Thing in It
2015
as Self
The Ever After
2015
as Penny
The Equalizer
2014 · Trailer
as Susan Plummer
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
2014 · Trailer
as Bette Altmann
Dwegons and Leprechauns
2014
as Grandma Fitz / Butterfly McDweg / Mrs. Fitzgerald
Prisoners
2013 · Trailer
as Holly Jones
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
2013 · Trailer
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
2013 · Trailer
as Robin
Bottled Up
2013 · Trailer
as Fay
Oblivion
2013 · Trailer
as Sally
Olympus Has Fallen
2013 · Trailer
as Secretary of Defense Ruth McMillan
Charlie Countryman
2013 · Trailer
as Kate
Francine
2012 · Trailer
as Francine
Why Stop Now?
2012 · Trailer
as Penny
Flight
2012 · Trailer
as Ellen Block
The Space Between
2011
as Montine
Seven Days in Utopia
2011 · Trailer
as Lily
Red State
2011 · Trailer
as Sara
The Sea Is All I Know
2011
as Sara
The Fighter
2010 · Trailer
as Alice Ward
Queen of the Lot
2010 · Trailer
as Aunt Bee
Welcome to the Rileys
2010 · Trailer
as Lois Riley
Conviction
2010 · Trailer
as Nancy Taylor
The Dry Land
2010
as Martha
Everybody's Fine
2009 · Trailer
as Colleen
According to Greta
2009 · Trailer
as Karen
Dear Lemon Lima
2009 · Trailer
as Mrs. Howard
Veronika Decides to Die
2009 · Trailer
as Mari
Don McKay
2009
as Marie
True Adolescents
2009 · Trailer
as Sharon Mitchell
Stephanie's Image
2009
as Stephanie
The Alphabet Killer
2008 · Trailer
as Kathy Walsh
Righteous Kill
2008 · Trailer
as Cheryl
Frozen River
2008 · Trailer
as Ray Eddy
Santa Mesa
2008
as Maggie
Lullaby
2008
as Stephanie
Black Irish
2007
as Margaret McKay
Mr. Woodcock
2007 · Trailer
as Sally Jansen
Racing Daylight
2007
as Sadie / Anna
I Believe in America
2007
as Soto
Hollywood Dreams
2007 · Trailer
as Aunt Bee
The Cake Eaters
2007 · Trailer
as Ceci Kimbrough
Dear Lemon Lima
2007
as Mrs. Howard
Stephanie Daley
2007 · Trailer
as Miri Daley
Midnight Son
2007
as Rita
Bomb
2007
One Night
2007
as Wendy
The House Is Burning
2006
as Mrs. Miller
The Limbo Room
2006
as KC Collins
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
2005 · Trailer
as Rachel
Confess
2005 · Trailer
as Agnes Lessor
American Gun
2005 · Trailer
as Louise
Runaway
2005
as Lisa Adler
Hide and Seek
2005 · Trailer
as Laura
From Other Worlds
2004
as Miriam
21 Grams
2003 · Trailer
as Marianne Jordan
Fear of Fiction
2000
as Sigrid Anderssen
Homicide: The Movie
2000
as Kay Howard
Code of Ethics
1999
as Jo DeAngelo
The 24 Hour Woman
1999
as Dr. Suzanne Pincus
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
1997
as Self
Last Summer in the Hamptons
1995
as Trish Axelrod
In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice
1995
as Carol Manning
Garden
1995
as Elizabeth
The Ballad of Little Jo
1993
as Beatrice Grey
By a Thread
1992
as Helen
Immaculate Conception
1992 · Trailer
as Hannah
Venice/Venice
1992 · Trailer
as Peggy
Carolina Skeletons
1991 · Trailer
as Cassie
The Bride in Black
1990 · Trailer
as Mary Margaret
Nasty Boys
1989
as Katie Morrissey
A Time of Destiny
1988
as Josie Larraneta
Deadtime Stories
1986 · Trailer
as Judith 'MaMa' Baer
Silent Witness
1985 · Trailer
as Patti Mullen
Always … But Not Forever
1985
as Peggy
Streetwalkin'
1985 · Trailer
as Cookie
I'm Only There...
1984
as Maggie
The Rooster Prince
Release date to be announced
as Elaine
The Mannequin
Release date to be announced
Ron Forever
Release date to be announced
as Hilda
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