Melissa Leo

Explore Melissa Leo's movie filmography on ReelBot, including film credits, roles, release dates, ratings, and movie details.

Acting

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).

Filmography

• Passenger (2026)
• The Knife (2025)
• Guns Up (2025)
• King Ivory (2025)
• AFTER: Poetry Destroys Silence (2024)
• The Clean Up Crew (2024)
• Long Gone Heroes (2024)
• The Equalizer 3 (2023)
• Bonnie (2022)
• Jane (2022)
• Alone Together (2022)
• Coast (2022)
• Measure of Revenge (2022)
• Ida Red (2021)
• Thunder Force (2021)
• Body Brokers (2021)
• Unlovable (2018)
• The Equalizer 2 (2018)
• The Parting Glass (2018)
• Mabel, Mabel Tiger Trainer (2018)
• Furlough (2018)
• The Ashram (2018)
• The View from Up Here (2017)
• Novitiate (2017)
• The Most Hated Woman in America (2017)
• Snowden (2016)
• All the Way (2016)
• Burn Country (2016)
• London Has Fallen (2016)
• 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 (2015)
• The Equalizer (2014)
• The Angriest Man in Brooklyn (2014)
• Dwegons and Leprechauns (2014)
• Prisoners (2013)
• Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy (2013)
• Call Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013)
• Bottled Up (2013)
• Oblivion (2013)
• Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
• Charlie Countryman (2013)
• Why Stop Now? (2012)
• Flight (2012)
• Francine (2012)
• The Space Between (2011)
• Seven Days in Utopia (2011)
• Red State (2011)
• The Sea Is All I Know (2011)
• The Fighter (2010)
• Queen of the Lot (2010)
• Welcome to the Rileys (2010)
• Conviction (2010)
• The Dry Land (2010)
• Everybody's Fine (2009)
• According to Greta (2009)
• Dear Lemon Lima (2009)
• Veronika Decides to Die (2009)
• Don McKay (2009)
• True Adolescents (2009)
• Stephanie's Image (2009)
• The Alphabet Killer (2008)
• Righteous Kill (2008)
• Frozen River (2008)
• Santa Mesa (2008)
• Lullaby (2008)
• Black Irish (2007)
• Mr. Woodcock (2007)
• Racing Daylight (2007)
• I Believe in America (2007)
• Hollywood Dreams (2007)
• The Cake Eaters (2007)
• Dear Lemon Lima (2007)
• Stephanie Daley (2007)
• Midnight Son (2007)
• Bomb (2007)
• One Night (2007)
• The House Is Burning (2006)
• The Limbo Room (2006)
• The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)
• Confess (2005)
• American Gun (2005)
• Runaway (2005)
• Hide and Seek (2005)
• From Other Worlds (2004)
• 21 Grams (2003)
• Fear of Fiction (2000)
• Homicide: The Movie (2000)
• Code of Ethics (1999)
• The 24 Hour Woman (1999)
• Under the bridge (1998)
• Who Is Henry Jaglom? (1997)
• Last Summer in the Hamptons (1995)
• In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice (1995)
• Garden (1995)
• The Ballad of Little Jo (1993)
• By a Thread (1992)
• Immaculate Conception (1992)
• Venice/Venice (1992)
• Carolina Skeletons (1991)
• The Bride in Black (1990)
• Nasty Boys (1989)
• A Time of Destiny (1988)
• Deadtime Stories (1986)
• Silent Witness (1985)
• Always … But Not Forever (1985)
• Streetwalkin' (1985)
• I'm Only There... (1984)
• The Mannequin
• Supermax
• Ron Forever
• The Rooster Prince