Melissa Leo

Melissa Leo is best known for her starring role as Detective Kay Howard on the award-winning NBC series Homicide: Life on the Street. She was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for her role as Linda Warner on ABC's All My Children.

Her other television credits include the starring role of Emma on the ABC series The Young Riders. She has guest-starred on numerous television series, including Law & Order, Legacy, The Equalizer, Miami Vice, and Spenser: For Hire. She also starred in the telefilm Carolina Skeletons and the miniseries Scarlett, both for director John Erman.

Among Ms. Leo's feature credits are three movies for Henry Jaglom: Always, Venice/Venice, and Last Summer in the Hamptons. Her other films include Nancy Savoca's The 24-Hour Woman, Maggie Greenwald's The Ballad of Little Jo, Jamil Dehlavi's Immaculate Conception, Gregory Nava's A Time of Destiny, and Joan Freeman's Streetwalkin'. She recently completed filming Barry Strugatz' From Other Worlds.

She performed in the New York City production of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues, as well as with the national tour. Among her many other stage credits are A Touch of the Poet, Out of Gas on Lover's Leap, The Hurdy Gurdy Man at New York Stage & Film at Vassar College, the New York Shakespeare Festival productions of Don Juan and Cinders, and Tongue of the Bird at the Public Theatre. She also created the role of Gloria in the world premiere staging of Tennessee Williams' Will Mr. Meriwether Return from Memphis?

Note: This profile was written in or before 2003.

Melissa Leo Facts

Occupation	Actress
Birthday	September 14, 1960 (63)
Sign	Virgo
Birthplace	New York, New York, USA
Awards	2011 Academy Awards: Best Actress in a Supporting Role (for The Fighter)
	2011 Golden Globe Awards: Best Actress In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture (for The Fighter)
	2011 Screen Actors Guild Awards: Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role (for The Fighter)

Selected Filmography

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