Melissa Leo

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
Sep 14, 1960 (64 years old)

Melissa Leo

Known For

Guns Up
1h 32m
Movie 2025

Guns Up

When a job goes horribly wrong, an ex-cop and family man who moonlights as a mob henchman has one night to get his family out of the city.

King Ivory
2h 10m
Movie 2025

King Ivory

Based on extensive research involving law enforcement and gang members, a never-before-seen, authentic look inside the underworld of fentanyl trafficking from gangs inside the Oklahoma State Penitentiary at McAlester a.k.a. "Big Mac."

AFTER: Poetry Destroys Silence
1h 16m
Movie 2024

AFTER: Poetry Destroys Silence

Can poetry bring the dead back to life? Follow contemporary poets as they perform and examine the role of art in responding to the Holocaust and genocide.

Long Gone Heroes
2h 4m
Movie 2024

Long Gone Heroes

Gunner, a special forces soldier who has witnessed the darkest side of country and combat, is forced back into the field of battle to save his niece, who is being held in South America. As the fight intensifies, Gunner and his team discover that her disappearance is part of a corrupt private operation that hits way too close to home.

The Clean Up Crew
1h 35m
Movie 2024

The Clean Up Crew

When a crime scene clean up crew discovers a briefcase full of money, they must out smart a criminal kingpin and corrupt FBI agents who want it back.

The Knife
1h 22m
Movie 2024

The Knife

After the mysterious appearance of a stranger in their home, a young Black family must deal with the fallout of their choices, big and small, as a steadfast detective tries to crack the case over the course of one fateful night.

The Equalizer 3
1h 49m
Movie 2023

The Equalizer 3

Robert McCall finds himself at home in Southern Italy but he discovers his friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends' protector by taking on the mafia.

Bonnie
1h 23m
Movie 2022

Bonnie

A portrait of casting director Bonnie Timmermann.

Jane
1h 24m
Movie 2022

Jane

When Olivia gets deferred from her dream college, she begins to spiral. In an attempt to regain control, she embarks on a social media-fueled rampage against those that stand in the way of her success. But as things escalate, she is forced to confront her darkest impulses in order to get ahead.

Alone Together
1h 41m
Movie 2022

Alone Together

Strangers June and Charlie wind up double-booked in the same upstate New York Airbnb during the start of COVID-19. Exasperating the situation, the lockdown forces them both to stay and confront the unexpected feelings that develop between them.

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).

Acting

2025
Guns Up
2025
King Ivory
2024
AFTER: Poetry Destroys Silence
2024
Long Gone Heroes
2024
The Clean Up Crew
2024
The Knife
2023
The Equalizer 3
2022
Bonnie
2022
Jane
2022
Alone Together
2022
Coast
2022
Measure of Revenge
2021
Ida Red
2021
Thunder Force
2021
Body Brokers
2020
I Know This Much Is True
2018
Unlovable
2018
The Equalizer 2
2018
The Parting Glass
2018
Mabel, Mabel Tiger Trainer
2018
Furlough
2018
The Ashram
2017
Novitiate
2017
The View from Up Here
2017
I'm Dying Up Here
2017
The Most Hated Woman in America
2016
Snowden
2016
All the Way
2016
Burn Country
2016
London Has Fallen
2015
The Big Short
2015
Damnation: The Flashback
2015
After the Spill
2015
The Butterfly, The Harp, and The Timepiece
2015
She's The Best Thing in It
2015
The Ever After
2014
The Equalizer
2014
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
2013
Prisoners
2013
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
2013
Bottled Up
2013
Oblivion
2011
Red State
2011
Mildred Pierce
2010
The Fighter
2010
Welcome to the Rileys
2010
Treme
2009
According to Greta
2009
Dear Lemon Lima
2009
Don McKay
2009
Stephanie's Image
2008
Righteous Kill
2008
Lullaby
2007
Black Irish
2007
Mr. Woodcock
2007
I Believe in America
2007
Dear Lemon Lima
2007
Stephanie Daley
2007
Midnight Son
2007
Bomb
2006
The Limbo Room
1995
Last Summer in the Hamptons
1995
In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice
1994
Scarlett
1993
The Ballad of Little Jo
1992
By a Thread
1992
Immaculate Conception
1992
Venice/Venice
1990
The Bride in Black
1989
Nasty Boys
1986
Deadtime Stories
1985
Silent Witness
1985
Always … But Not Forever

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