Melissa Leo
Known for: Acting
Born: September 14, 1960
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 nom…
Known for
Frozen River
2008
Lullaby
2008
Measure of Revenge
2022
Coast
2022
Racing Daylight
2007
The Space Between
2011
Streetwalkin'
1985
The Sea Is All I Know
2011
Francine
2012
Fear of Fiction
2000
The Limbo Room
2006
Bottled Up
2013
Dwegons and Leprechauns
2014
Stephanie's Image
2009
One Night
2007
Midnight Son
2007
Damnation: The Flashback
2015
The Most Hated Woman in America
2017
Furlough
2018
After the Spill
2015
Mabel, Mabel Tiger Trainer
2018
The Butterfly, The Harp, and The Timepiece
2015
AFTER: Poetry Destroys Silence
2024
The Mannequin
The House Is Burning
2006
Why Stop Now?
2012
I'm Only There...
1984
The View from Up Here
2017
Burn Country
2016
The Knife
2025
Novitiate
2017
I Believe in America
2007
Immaculate Conception
1992
The Ashram
2018
Garden
1995
Welcome to the Rileys
2010
Don McKay
2009
Confess
2005
Red State
2011
Seven Days in Utopia
2011
Carolina Skeletons
1991
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
2013
A Time of Destiny
1988
In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice
1995
She's The Best Thing in It
2015
Snowden
2016
Code of Ethics
1999
All the Way
2016
Long Gone Heroes
2024
Venice/Venice
1992
Unlovable
2018
Silent Witness
1985
Bomb
2007
Ida Red
2021
Passenger
2026
Ron Forever
The Rooster Prince
Black Irish
2007
Runaway
2005
Conviction
2010
The Fighter
2010
Dear Lemon Lima
2009
The 24 Hour Woman
1999
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
2014
The Clean Up Crew
2024
The Ever After
2015
By a Thread
1992
True Adolescents
2009
The Parting Glass
2018
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
2005
Veronika Decides to Die
2009
Everybody's Fine
2009
The Dry Land
2010
Deadtime Stories
1986
Always … But Not Forever
1985
London Has Fallen
2016
Hollywood Dreams
2007
The Bride in Black
1990
Dear Lemon Lima
2007
Guns Up
2025
21 Grams
2003
According to Greta
2009
Oblivion
2013
Prisoners
2013
King Ivory
2025
Nasty Boys
1989
The Big Short
2015
The Equalizer 2
2018
Thunder Force
2021
Alone Together
2022
Hide and Seek
2005
The Equalizer
2014
Mr. Woodcock
2007
Jane
2022
Last Summer in the Hamptons
1995
Bonnie
2022
Charlie Countryman
2013
The Ballad of Little Jo
1993
The Cake Eaters
2007
The Alphabet Killer
2008
Olympus Has Fallen
2013
Santa Mesa
2008
Body Brokers
2021
Queen of the Lot
2010
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
2013
Flight
2012
Homicide: The Movie
2000
Righteous Kill
2008
American Gun
2005
From Other Worlds
2004
Stephanie Daley
2007
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
1997
The Equalizer 3
2023
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
Veronica Mars
2004
Spenser: For Hire
1985
Shark
2006
The Young Riders
1989
Miami Vice
1984
Cold Case
2003
The L Word
2004
Criminal Minds
2005
The Equalizer
1985
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
Legacy
1998
Treme
2010
Law & Order
1990
Mildred Pierce
2011
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993
I'm Dying Up Here
2017
Broad City
2014
The Arsenio Hall Show
2013
I Know This Much Is True
2020
BoJack Horseman
2014
Dolly Parton's Heartstrings
2019
Wayward Pines
2015
Scarlett
1994