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Melissa Leo
- Name: Melissa Leo
- Birthday: 1960-09-14
- Also known as: Margaret May,Melissa Chessington Leo,멜리사 레오,ملیسا لیو
- Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
- Popularity: 0.326
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... Read More
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| Title | Release date |
|---|---|
| King Ivory as Ginger Greene | 2025-05-08 |
| AFTER: Poetry Destroys Silence | 2024-11-01 |
| Long Gone Heroes as Olivia | 2024-09-20 |
| The Clean Up Crew as Siobhan | 2024-09-12 |
| The Knife as Detective Carlsen | 2024-06-09 |
| The Equalizer 3 as Susan Plummer | 2023-08-30 |
| Bonnie as Self | 2022-11-12 |
| Jane as Principal Rhodes | 2022-08-26 |
| Alone Together as Deborah | 2022-07-22 |
| Coast as Olivia | 2022-04-08 |
| Measure of Revenge as Lillian | 2022-03-18 |
| Ida Red as Ida ‘Red’ Walker | 2021-11-05 |
| Thunder Force as Allie | 2021-04-09 |
| Body Brokers as Dr. White | 2021-02-19 |
| Unlovable as Maddie | 2018-11-01 |
| The Equalizer 2 as Susan Plummer | 2018-07-19 |
| The Parting Glass as Al | 2018-06-24 |
| Mabel, Mabel Tiger Trainer as Narrator | 2018-04-10 |
| Furlough as Joan Anderson | 2018-03-16 |
| The Ashram as Chandra | 2018-03-02 |
| The View from Up Here | 2017-10-27 |
| Novitiate as Reverend Mother | 2017-10-27 |
| The Most Hated Woman in America as Madalyn Murray O'Hair | 2017-03-24 |
| Snowden as Laura Poitras | 2016-09-15 |
| All the Way as Lady Bird Johnson | 2016-05-23 |
| Burn Country as Gloria | 2016-04-16 |
| London Has Fallen as Secretary of Defense Ruth McMillan | 2016-03-02 |
| The Big Short as Georgia Hale | 2015-12-11 |
| Damnation: The Flashback as Noda Marra | 2015-10-19 |
| After the Spill as Narrator | 2015-10-04 |
| The Butterfly, The Harp, and The Timepiece as Papillon | 2015-09-03 |
| She's The Best Thing in It as Self | 2015-03-16 |
| The Ever After as Penny | 2015-02-13 |
| The Equalizer as Susan Plummer | 2014-09-24 |
| The Angriest Man in Brooklyn as Bette Altmann | 2014-05-23 |
| Dwegons and Leprechauns as Grandma Fitz / Butterfly McDweg / Mrs. Fitzgerald | 2014-01-24 |
| Prisoners as Holly Jones | 2013-09-19 |
| Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy as Narrator (voice) | 2013-06-19 |
| Call Me Crazy: A Five Film as Robin | 2013-04-20 |
| Bottled Up as Fay | 2013-04-19 |
| Oblivion as Sally | 2013-04-10 |
| Olympus Has Fallen as Secretary of Defense Ruth McMillan | 2013-03-20 |
| Charlie Countryman as Kate | 2013-02-09 |
| Flight as Ellen Block | 2012-11-02 |
| Francine as Francine | 2012-09-12 |
| Why Stop Now? as Penny | 2012-08-17 |
| The Space Between as Montine | 2011-09-11 |
| Seven Days in Utopia as Lily | 2011-09-02 |
| Red State as Sara | 2011-08-19 |
| The Sea Is All I Know as Sara | 2011-06-24 |
| The Fighter as Alice Ward | 2010-12-10 |
| Queen of the Lot as Aunt Bee | 2010-11-19 |
| Welcome to the Rileys as Lois Riley | 2010-10-29 |
| Conviction as Nancy Taylor | 2010-10-15 |
| The Dry Land as Martha | 2010-07-30 |
| Everybody's Fine as Colleen | 2009-12-04 |
| According to Greta as Karen | 2009-11-25 |
| Dear Lemon Lima as Mrs. Howard | 2009-10-23 |
| Veronika Decides to Die as Mari | 2009-05-16 |
| Don McKay as Marie | 2009-04-24 |
| True Adolescents as Sharon Mitchell | 2009-03-14 |
| Stephanie's Image as Stephanie | 2009-02-25 |
| The Alphabet Killer as Kathy Walsh | 2008-11-07 |
| Righteous Kill as Cheryl | 2008-09-11 |
| Frozen River as Ray Eddy | 2008-03-26 |
| Santa Mesa as Maggie | 2008-03-15 |
| Lullaby as Stephanie | 2008-02-24 |
| Black Irish as Margaret McKay | 2007-10-26 |
| Mr. Woodcock as Sally Jansen | 2007-09-14 |
| Racing Daylight as Sadie / Anna | 2007-07-31 |
| I Believe in America as Soto | 2007-07-02 |
| Hollywood Dreams as Aunt Bee | 2007-05-25 |
| The Cake Eaters as Ceci Kimbrough | 2007-04-29 |
| Dear Lemon Lima as Mrs. Howard | 2007-04-28 |
| Stephanie Daley as Miri Daley | 2007-04-20 |
| Midnight Son as Rita | 2007-02-02 |
| Bomb | 2007-01-19 |
| One Night as Wendy | 2007-01-01 |
| The House Is Burning as Mrs. Miller | 2006-11-16 |
| The Limbo Room as KC Collins | 2006-01-23 |
| The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada as Rachel | 2005-11-17 |
| American Gun as Louise | 2005-09-15 |
| Runaway as Lisa Adler | 2005-04-26 |
| Hide and Seek as Laura | 2005-01-27 |
| Confess as Agnes Lessor | 2005-01-01 |
| From Other Worlds as Miriam | 2004-10-29 |
| 21 Grams as Marianne Jordan | 2003-09-06 |
| Fear of Fiction as Sigrid Anderssen | 2000-07-13 |
| Homicide: The Movie as Kay Howard | 2000-02-13 |
| Code of Ethics as Jo DeAngelo | 1999-09-07 |
| The 24 Hour Woman as Dr. Suzanne Pincus | 1999-01-29 |
| Who Is Henry Jaglom? as Self | 1997-07-08 |
| Last Summer in the Hamptons as Trish Axelrod | 1995-11-22 |
| In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice as Carol Manning | 1995-10-01 |
| The Ballad of Little Jo as Beatrice Grey | 1993-08-20 |
| By a Thread as Helen | 1992-10-02 |
| Immaculate Conception as Hannah | 1992-09-11 |
| Venice/Venice as Peggy | 1992-04-10 |
| Carolina Skeletons as Cassie | 1991-09-30 |
| The Bride in Black as Mary Margaret | 1990-10-21 |
| Nasty Boys as Katie Morrissey | 1989-09-22 |
| A Time of Destiny as Josie Larraneta | 1988-04-22 |
| Deadtime Stories as Judith 'MaMa' Baer | 1986-04-13 |
| Silent Witness as Patti Mullen | 1985-10-14 |
| Always … But Not Forever as Peggy | 1985-10-04 |
| Streetwalkin' as Cookie | 1985-09-20 |
| I'm Only There... as Maggie | 1984-06-19 |
