Melissa Leo

Actor

Born: September 14, 1960 (age 65)
From: Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

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…

Filmography (113)

Passenger (2026)
Diana
The Knife (2025)
Detective Carlsen
Guns Up (2025)
Michael Temple
King Ivory (2025)
Ginger Greene
AFTER: Poetry Destroys Silence (2024)
The Clean Up Crew (2024)
Siobhan
Long Gone Heroes (2024)
Olivia
The Equalizer 3 (2023)
Susan Plummer
Bonnie (2022)
Self
Jane (2022)
Principal Rhodes
Alone Together (2022)
Deborah
Coast (2022)
Olivia
Measure of Revenge (2022)
Lillian
Ida Red (2021)
Ida ‘Red’ Walker
Thunder Force (2021)
Allie
Body Brokers (2021)
Dr. White
Unlovable (2018)
Maddie
The Equalizer 2 (2018)
Susan Plummer
The Parting Glass (2018)
Al
Mabel, Mabel Tiger Trainer (2018)
Narrator
Furlough (2018)
Joan Anderson
The Ashram (2018)
Chandra
The View from Up Here (2017)
Claire
Novitiate (2017)
Reverend Mother
The Most Hated Woman in America (2017)
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Snowden (2016)
Laura Poitras
All the Way (2016)
Lady Bird Johnson
Burn Country (2016)
Gloria
London Has Fallen (2016)
Secretary of Defense Ruth McMillan
The Big Short (2015)
Georgia Hale