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).
110 movies · 24 shows
Passenger
2026·7.3
The Knife
2025·7.2
Guns Up
2025·6.5
King Ivory
2025·6.8
AFTER: Poetry Destroys Silence
2024·0.0
The Clean Up Crew
2024·5.5
Long Gone Heroes
2024·5.4
The Equalizer 3
2023·7.3
Bonnie
2022·5.3
Jane
2022·5.4
Alone Together
2022·5.1
Coast
2022·4.6
Measure of Revenge
2022·4.7
Ida Red
2021·5.7
Thunder Force
2021·5.5
Body Brokers
2021·6.2
Unlovable
2018·5.6
The Equalizer 2
2018·6.8
The Parting Glass
2018·5.4
Mabel, Mabel Tiger Trainer
2018·0.0
Furlough
2018·5.7
The Ashram
2018·5.4
The View from Up Here
2017·6.0
Novitiate
2017·6.5
The Most Hated Woman in America
2017·6.2
Snowden
2016·7.1
All the Way
2016·6.6
Burn Country
2016·5.0
London Has Fallen
2016·6.2
The Big Short
2015·7.4
Damnation: The Flashback
2015·1.0
After the Spill
2015·7.0
The Butterfly, The Harp, and The Timepiece
2015·0.0
She's The Best Thing in It
2015·1.0
The Ever After
2015·5.7
The Equalizer
2014·7.3
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
2014·5.6
Dwegons and Leprechauns
2014·1.4
Prisoners
2013·8.1
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
2013·6.6
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
2013·7.0
Bottled Up
2013·5.7
Oblivion
2013·6.7
Olympus Has Fallen
2013·6.4
Charlie Countryman
2013·6.4
Francine
2012·3.4
Why Stop Now?
2012·5.4
Flight
2012·6.9
The Space Between
2011·6.6
Seven Days in Utopia
2011·5.7
Red State
2011·6.0
The Sea Is All I Know
2011·0.0
The Fighter
2010·7.4
Queen of the Lot
2010·2.6
Welcome to the Rileys
2010·6.6
Conviction
2010·7.1
The Dry Land
2010·4.5
Everybody's Fine
2009·6.8
According to Greta
2009·6.0
Dear Lemon Lima
2009·5.5
Veronika Decides to Die
2009·5.9
Don McKay
2009·4.9
True Adolescents
2009·5.7
Stephanie's Image
2009·8.0
The Alphabet Killer
2008·5.1
Righteous Kill
2008·5.9
Frozen River
2008·6.6
Santa Mesa
2008·5.0
Lullaby
2008·10.0
Black Irish
2007·6.5
Mr. Woodcock
2007·5.1
Racing Daylight
2007·3.3
I Believe in America
2007·10.0
Hollywood Dreams
2007·3.1
The Cake Eaters
2007·5.5
Dear Lemon Lima
2007·0.0
Stephanie Daley
2007·5.8
Midnight Son
2007·1.0
Bomb
2007·0.0
One Night
2007·6.4
The House Is Burning
2006·6.5
The Limbo Room
2006·0.0
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
2005·7.0
Confess
2005·4.3
American Gun
2005·5.7
Runaway
2005·6.5
Hide and Seek
2005·6.4
From Other Worlds
2004·3.9
21 Grams
2003·7.3
Fear of Fiction
2000·8.0
Homicide: The Movie
2000·6.9
Code of Ethics
1999·7.0
The 24 Hour Woman
1999·5.8
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
1997·6.8
Last Summer in the Hamptons
1995·5.8
In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice
1995·4.8
Garden
1995·0.0
The Ballad of Little Jo
1993·6.0
By a Thread
1992·10.0
Immaculate Conception
1992·5.4
Venice/Venice
1992·7.0
Carolina Skeletons
1991·7.2
The Bride in Black
1990·8.0
Nasty Boys
1989·7.3
A Time of Destiny
1988·5.4
Deadtime Stories
1986·4.9
Silent Witness
1985·4.7
Always … But Not Forever
1985·4.4
Streetwalkin'
1985·4.9
I'm Only There...
1984·0.0