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 seve...
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As Marianne Jordan
Frozen River
As Ray Eddy
Hide and Seek
As Laura
Bonnie
As Self
Homicide: The Movie
As Kay Howard
Welcome to the Rileys
As Lois Riley
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
As Rachel
Lullaby
As Stephanie
Measure of Revenge
As Lillian
The House Is Burning
As Mrs. Miller
Veronika Decides to Die
As Mari
According to Greta
As Karen
Everybody's Fine
As Colleen
Black Irish
As Margaret McKay
Righteous Kill
As Cheryl
Coast
As Olivia
Don McKay
As Marie
Runaway
As Lisa Adler
Charlie Countryman
As Kate
American Gun
As Louise
Returns
Conviction
As Nancy Taylor
The Dry Land
As Martha
The Fighter
As Alice Ward
Deadtime Stories
As Judith 'MaMa' Baer
Confess
As Agnes Lessor
Queen of the Lot
As Aunt Bee
Red State
As Sara
Dear Lemon Lima
As Mrs. Howard
Racing Daylight
As Sadie / Anna
The Space Between
As Montine
Seven Days in Utopia
As Lily
The Ballad of Little Jo
As Beatrice Grey
Oblivion
As Sally
Streetwalkin'
As Cookie
The Sea Is All I Know
As Sara
Francine
As Francine
From Other Worlds
As Miriam
Fear of Fiction
As Sigrid Anderssen
The 24 Hour Woman
As Dr. Suzanne Pincus
Always … But Not Forever
As Peggy
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
As Bette Altmann
Prisoners
As Holly Jones
Carolina Skeletons
As Cassie
King Ivory
As Ginger Greene
Olympus Has Fallen
As Secretary of Defense Ruth McMillan
Santa Mesa
As Maggie
Why Stop Now?
As Penny
The Limbo Room
As KC Collins
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
As Robin
I'm Only There...
As Maggie
Last Summer in the Hamptons
As Trish Axelrod
Bottled Up
As Fay
The View from Up Here
The Equalizer 3
As Susan Plummer
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
As Narrator (voice)
A Time of Destiny
As Josie Larraneta
Dwegons and Leprechauns
As Grandma Fitz / Butterfly McDweg / Mrs. Fitzgerald
One Night
As Wendy
Stephanie's Image
As Stephanie
Flight
As Ellen Block
Stephanie Daley
As Miri Daley
The Equalizer
As Susan Plummer
The Clean Up Crew
As Siobhan
London Has Fallen
As Secretary of Defense Ruth McMillan
In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice
As Carol Manning
Midnight Son
As Rita
The Ever After
As Penny
She's The Best Thing in It
As Self
Nasty Boys
As Katie Morrissey
Burn Country
As Gloria
Hollywood Dreams
As Aunt Bee
Snowden
As Laura Poitras
The Big Short
As Georgia Hale
Code of Ethics
As Jo DeAngelo
All the Way
As Lady Bird Johnson
Damnation: The Flashback
As Noda Marra
The Cake Eaters
As Ceci Kimbrough
The Knife
As Detective Carlsen
Long Gone Heroes
As Olivia
By a Thread
As Helen
The Most Hated Woman in America
As Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Novitiate
As Reverend Mother
I Believe in America
As Soto
The Bride in Black
As Mary Margaret
True Adolescents
As Sharon Mitchell
Immaculate Conception
As Hannah
Venice/Venice
As Peggy
The Ashram
As Chandra
The Equalizer 2
As Susan Plummer
Dear Lemon Lima
As Mrs. Howard
Unlovable
As Maddie
Furlough
As Joan Anderson
After the Spill
As Narrator
The Parting Glass
As Al
Mabel, Mabel Tiger Trainer
As Narrator
Silent Witness
As Patti Mullen
Mr. Woodcock
As Sally Jansen
Body Brokers
As Dr. White
The Alphabet Killer
As Kathy Walsh
The Butterfly, The Harp, and The Timepiece
As Papillon
Bomb
Thunder Force
As Allie
Ida Red
As Ida ‘Red’ Walker
Alone Together
As Deborah
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
As Self
Jane
As Principal Rhodes
AFTER: Poetry Destroys Silence
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
As Sybil Perez
Spenser: For Hire
Veronica Mars
As Julia Smith
Shark
The Young Riders
As Emma Shannon
Miami Vice
Cold Case
As Tayna Raymes (1994 & 2007)
The L Word
As Winnie Mann
Criminal Minds
As Sheriff Georgia Davis
The Equalizer
As Irina Dzershinsky
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
As Maureen Curtis
Legacy
Scarlett
Nasty Boys
As Katie Morrissey
Treme
Law & Order
As Donna Cheponis
Mildred Pierce
As Lucy Gessler
Homicide: Life on the Street
As Kay Howard
I'm Dying Up Here
As Goldie
Broad City
As Lori
The Arsenio Hall Show
As Self
I Know This Much Is True
As Concettina Ipolita Tempesta 'Ma' Birdsey
BoJack Horseman
As Ma Nguyen (voice)
Dolly Parton's Heartstrings
As Amelia Meegers
Wayward Pines
As Nurse Pam
