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