Melissa Leo

Birthday: 1960-09-14
Birthplace: New York City, New York, USA
Gender: Female
Drafted: 626
Drafted By: Zac E. Chan
Owned By: Zac E. Chan
Owned Wins: 0
Owned Noms: 0
Win Bonus: 3
Nom Bonus: 0
Total Points: 0

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).

Career Statisics

	Season	Age	Movie	Role	Result	Points
	2009	49	Frozen River (2008)	Leading Actress	Nom	0
	2011	51	The Fighter (2010)	Supporting Actress	Win	0
	Career					0

Transaction History

Date	Location	Team	Receives	Team	Receives	Team	Receives

Credits

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