Melissa Leo
Birthday: 1960-09-14
Place of Birth: Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
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).
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21 Grams
Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upp...
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Frozen River
After her husband deserts her, working-class mother Ray Eddy is in great need of money to find a hom...
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Hide and Seek
David Callaway tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife's suicide and has been left ...
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Homicide: The Movie
Retired police lieutenant Al Giardello is running for mayor when he is suddenly shot at a press conf...
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Welcome to the Rileys
Years after their teenage daughter’s death, Lois and Doug Riley, an upstanding Indiana couple, are f...
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The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
When brash Texas border officer Mike Norton wrongfully kills and buries the friend and ranch hand of...
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Lullaby
An American mother receives word that her drug addled son has been kidnapped by a drug lord operatin...
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Measure of Revenge
Theater actress Lillian Cooper's son dies mysteriously. When the investigating officer rules the cau...
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The House Is Burning
One day. One night. A group of teenagers struggles to find their way in a world that offers them few...
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Veronika Decides to Die
After a frantic suicide attempt, Veronika awakens inside a mysterious mental asylum. Under the super...
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According to Greta
Dumped on her grandparents for the summer by her indifferent mother, acerbic and self-destructive te...
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Everybody's Fine
Eight months after the death of his wife, Frank Goode looks forward to a reunion with his four adult...
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Black Irish
In South Boston, where Irish roots run deep and Catholic tradition reigns, two brothers face similar...
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Righteous Kill
Two veteran New York City detectives work to identify the possible connection between a recent murde...
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Coast
Desperate to escape the trappings of her small coastal farming town, 16-year-old Abby falls for the ...
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Don McKay
Everything appears off-kilter when a man returns to his hometown after 25 years to visit his former ...
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Runaway
Michael Adler has run away from his suburban home with his little brother Dylan. Hiding out in a qui...
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Charlie Countryman
A young American falls hard for a Romanian cellist whose father has recently died -- and whose viole...
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American Gun
Seemingly disparate portraits of people -- among them a single mother, a high school principal, and ...
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Conviction
When Betty Anne Waters' older brother Kenny is arrested for murder and sentenced to life in 1983, Be...
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The Dry Land
A U.S. soldier returning home from war struggles to reconcile his experiences abroad with the life a...
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The Fighter
Boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise ...
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Deadtime Stories
A babysitting uncle tells his charges three horror stories: about a killer witch; Little Red Riding ...
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Confess
A young ex-hacker, disgruntled with his life, lashes back at those deemed responsible, uploading unf...
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Queen of the Lot
An electronic ankle bracelet and being under house arrest aren't about to stop up-and-coming actress...
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Red State
Set in Middle America, a group of teens receive an online invitation for sex, though they soon encou...
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Dear Lemon Lima
After being dumped by Philip, her one true love, the infatuated Nessa enrolls at his private school ...
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Racing Daylight
RACING DAYLIGHT is a spooky murder mystery as well as a supernatural love story that transcends time...
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The Space Between
Montine McLeod, a world-weary flight attendant, and Omar Hassan, a prematurely wise 10-year-old Paka...
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Seven Days in Utopia
Talent can only get you so far. For golfer Luke Chisholm, that turns out to be Utopia, Texas -- wher...
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The Ballad of Little Jo
After being thrown out of her home, a young woman decides to disguise herself as a man to survive th...
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Oblivion
Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation t...
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Streetwalkin'
Cookie is a teen runaway who escapes her abusive stepfather and heads for the Big Apple with her you...
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The Sea Is All I Know
When an estranged couple come to the aid of their dying daughter, the experience sends them spiralin...
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Francine
Francine is released from prison and settles down in a small town. She is unable to regain a foothol...
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From Other Worlds
FROM OTHER WORLDS is a sci-fi comedy about a depressed Brooklyn housewife who sleepwalks through her...
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Fear of Fiction
This road movie explores the nature of the bond between twins by focusing on a love affair between a...
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The 24 Hour Woman
Grace tries to be the perfect mother and TV producer but finds trouble in juggling both....
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Always … But Not Forever
A middle-aged couple, on the verge of proceeding with a divorce, find themselves questioning their d...
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The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
After learning that a brain aneurysm will kill him in about 90 minutes, a perpetually unhappy man st...
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Prisoners
Keller Dover is facing every parent’s worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, ...
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Carolina Skeletons
After a long time in the army, an Afro-American soldier returns to his hometown, where, years ago, h...
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King Ivory
Based on extensive research involving law enforcement and gang members, a never-before-seen, authent...
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Olympus Has Fallen
When the White House (Secret Service Code: "Olympus") is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the ...
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Santa Mesa
Following his mother's death, Hector arrives in Manila to live with his grandmother. Unable to speak...
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Why Stop Now?
When a college piano prodigy tries to check his mother into rehab, he is taken hostage by her drug d...
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The Limbo Room
When an on stage rape scene sparks an offstage affair, the line between reality and fiction becomes ...
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Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales de...
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I'm Only There...
Rare short film starring Oscar winner Melissa Leo in her first screen role, written and directed by ...
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Last Summer in the Hamptons
Helena Mora, the head of an eccentric theatrical family, has decided to sell her large estate in the...
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Bottled Up
A solitary woman (Melissa Leo) earning her living by delivering mail and body piercing, makes every ...
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The View from Up Here
Claire and Lila are neighbours. They both live in the same building, they see each other every day b...
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The Equalizer 3
Robert McCall finds himself at home in Southern Italy but he discovers his friends are under the con...
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Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
Revisits President John F. Kennedy's presidential legacy through 21 of the more than 800,000 condole...
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A Time of Destiny
World War II provides the setting for a melodramatic tale of love and revenge....
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Dwegons and Leprechauns
Family inherits an old house and to their surprise, finds the home filled with wonderful colorful cr...
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One Night
Fifteen New Yorkers go into a Friday night unaware of the fact that their lives are about to change....
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Stephanie's Image
A documentary filmmaker investigates the murder of a former model and finds that everything she's be...
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Flight
Commercial airline pilot Whip Whitaker has a problem with drugs and alcohol, though so far he's mana...
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Stephanie Daley
Stephanie collapses in a pool of blood while on a school skiing trip. A doctor discovers that the bl...
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The Equalizer
McCall believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, ...
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The Clean Up Crew
When a crime scene clean up crew discovers a briefcase full of money, they must out smart a criminal...
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London Has Fallen
In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the att...
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In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice
When a state trooper is gunned down on a New Jersey highway, his friend and colleague sets out to tr...
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Midnight Son
Mild-mannered professor Edward leaves his wife, Rita, one night to meet a stranger from an Internet ...
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The Ever After
Ava and Thomas live--to outside eyes--the good life, complete with a child and a lovely home in Los ...
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She's The Best Thing in It
Mary Louise Wilson is the most accomplished character actor you've never heard of. While teaching sk...
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Nasty Boys
When a narcotics team sent to bust some drug dealers are massacred. The police department form a spe...
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Burn Country
A former war journalist now writing for a paper in Northern California is drawn into conflict at hom...
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Hollywood Dreams
The tale of a young girl fresh off the bus from Iowa, who falls in love with a sexy and promising yo...
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Snowden
CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press....
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Code of Ethics
The administrator of a medical company is forced to match wits with a serial killer, who targets peo...
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All the Way
Lyndon B. Johnson's amazing 11-month journey from taking office after JFK's assassination, through t...
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Damnation: The Flashback
In the swinging Appalachian town of Damnation, when the local mortician dies in the arms of 'the oth...
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The Cake Eaters
The death of the Kimbrough family matriarch affects the three male survivors of the clan. Widower Ea...
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The Knife
All Chris wants is to build a promising future for his wife, Alex, and their two daughters—a young f...
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Long Gone Heroes
Gunner, a special forces soldier who has witnessed the darkest side of country and combat, is forced...
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By a Thread
Television journalist Quentin Springer has two obsessions: first, he wants to help his schizophrenic...
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The Most Hated Woman in America
The true story of Madalyn Murray O'Hair -- iconoclast, opportunist, and outspoken atheist -- from he...
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Novitiate
In the early 1960s, during the Vatican II era, a young woman training to become a nun struggles with...
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I Believe in America
Three generations of one family, all involved at different levels with the Puerto Rican underground ...
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The Bride in Black
A Brooklyn widow (Susan Lucci) traces the past of her boxer/sculptor husband (David Soul), gunned do...
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True Adolescents
At 34, struggling Seattle musician Sam finds himself broke, jobless and losing touch with the person...
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Immaculate Conception
Alistair, a British representative for a wildlife conservation agency based in Karachi and his Jewis...
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Venice/Venice
Dean is a maverick American film director surprised that his most recent film has been chosen as the...
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The Ashram
After receiving a cryptic message, American skeptic Jamie travels to the Indian Himalayas to pick up...
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The Equalizer 2
Robert McCall, who serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed, embarks on a relen...
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Dear Lemon Lima
A lonely girl with a vivid imagination struggles to plant seeds of love after her narcissistic sweet...
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Unlovable
A sex and love addicted woman learns what real intimacy is when she starts making music with a reclu...
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Furlough
In between caring for her mother, a young woman works part time at a prison. The rookie guard gets a...
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After the Spill
Ten years ago Hurricane Katrina devastated the coast of Louisiana. Five years later the Deepwater Ho...
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The Parting Glass
A family dealing with their sister's death travel across country to collect her belongings and piece...
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Mabel, Mabel Tiger Trainer
A story of the world's first female tiger trainer who claimed her love for her tigers was so great s...
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Silent Witness
The marriage of a young working-class woman is jeopardized when she witnesses her brother-in-law's p...
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Mr. Woodcock
Taken aback by his mother's wedding announcement, a young man returns home in an effort to stop her ...
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Body Brokers
Utah and his girlfriend Opal, are drug addicts living on the streets in rural Ohio. After getting re...
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The Alphabet Killer
Based on the true story of double killings occurring in Rochester, NY during the 80’s and the troubl...
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The Butterfly, The Harp, and The Timepiece
In this magic shop, no matter who you are, you get what you need....
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Bomb
What starts as an innocent flirtation between teenagers on the edge of an old bombing range turns as...
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Thunder Force
In a world where supervillains are commonplace, two estranged childhood best friends reunite after o...
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Ida Red
Ida Red may not survive her 20-year prison sentence for armed robbery. She turns to her son, Wyatt, ...
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Alone Together
Strangers June and Charlie wind up double-booked in the same upstate New York Airbnb during the star...
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Who Is Henry Jaglom?
Hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and a true maverick of American cinema, dismi...
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Jane
When Olivia gets deferred from her dream college, she begins to spiral. In an attempt to regain cont...
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AFTER: Poetry Destroys Silence
Can poetry bring the dead back to life? Follow contemporary poets as they perform and examine the ro...
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Passenger
A few weeks into their van-life adventure, a young couple witnesses a horrific accident that leaves ...
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Guns Up
When a job goes horribly wrong, an ex-cop and family man who moonlights as a mob henchman has one ni...
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Ron Forever
One arrest away from foster care, a ten-year-old with mental superpowers must choose to repeat her m...
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