Melissa Leo

Melissa Leo is known for acting, with films including Passenger, The Equalizer, Prisoners. Browse the full filmography and find where to stream on sseenn.

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 Equalizer (2014)
• Prisoners (2013)
• The Equalizer 3 (2023)
• The Big Short (2015)
• The Equalizer 2 (2018)
• Oblivion (2013)
• Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
• London Has Fallen (2016)
• Flight (2012)
• Snowden (2016)
• 21 Grams (2003)
• The Fighter (2010)
• Hide and Seek (2005)
• Guns Up (2025)
• Red State (2011)
• Righteous Kill (2008)
• Everybody's Fine (2009)
• Novitiate (2017)
• Mr. Woodcock (2007)
• Thunder Force (2021)
• Welcome to the Rileys (2010)
• Charlie Countryman (2013)
• Conviction (2010)
• Long Gone Heroes (2024)
• Body Brokers (2021)
• The Angriest Man in Brooklyn (2014)
• Veronika Decides to Die (2009)
• According to Greta (2009)
• All the Way (2016)
• The Alphabet Killer (2008)
• The Most Hated Woman in America (2017)
• Frozen River (2008)
• The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)
• The Clean Up Crew (2024)
• The Cake Eaters (2007)
• Ida Red (2021)
• Alone Together (2022)
• Seven Days in Utopia (2011)
• Why Stop Now? (2012)