Basic Information About Melissa Leo
Full Name | Melissa Leo |
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Category | Celebrities βΊ Actors |
Professions | Actor |
Net worth | $9,000,000 |
Date of birth | 1960-09-14 (64 years old) |
Place of birth | Manhattan |
Nationality | United States of America |
Education | Bellows Falls High School, Mountview Theater School, University of New York |
Father | Arnold Leo |
Mother | Peggy Chessington Leo |
Siblings | (One) Erik Leo |
Kids | (Two) John Matthew Leo and Adam Leo |
Gender | Female |
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What Movie Awards did Melissa Leo win?
Oscar |
Golden Globe |
Golder Raspberry |
BAFTA |
Other |
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 |
Melissa Leo awards
Award Name | State | Movie / Series Name | Year |
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VVFP Award - Best Supporting Performance | Nominee | Thirteen | 2003 |
CinEuphoria - Best Supporting Actress - International Competition | Nominee | Prisoners | 2014 |
NBR Award - Best Ensemble | Winner | Prisoners | 2013 |
Movies for Grownups Award - Best Supporting Actress | Nominee | The Fighter | 2011 |
Festival Prize - Best Supporting Actress | Winner | The Fighter | 2010 |
Capri Actress Award - | Winner | The Fighter | 2010 |
COFCA Award - Best Ensemble | Winner | The Fighter | 2011 |
NYFCC Award - Best Supporting Actress | Winner | The Fighter | 2010 |
Mommie Dearest Worst Screen Mom of the Year Award - | Winner | The Fighter | 2010 |
NSFC Award - Best Supporting Actress | Nominee | Animal Kingdom | 2011 |
Chlotrudis Award - Best Supporting Actress | Nominee | Red State | 2012 |
Fright Meter Award - Best Supporting Actress | Nominee | Red State | 2011 |
Oscar - Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role | Nominee | Frozen River | 2009 |
Actor - Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role | Nominee | Frozen River | 2009 |
Critics Choice Award - Best Actress | Nominee | Frozen River | 2009 |
COFCA Award - Best Actress | Winner | Frozen River | 2009 |
CFCA Award - Best Actress | Nominee | Frozen River | 2008 |
DFCS Award - Best Actress | Nominee | Frozen River | 2008 |
Independent Spirit Award - Best Female Lead | Winner | Frozen River | 2009 |
FFCC Award - Best Actress | Winner | Frozen River | 2008 |
HFCS Award - Best Actress | Nominee | Frozen River | 2008 |
ICP Award - Best Lead Performance | Nominee | Frozen River | 2008 |
IOMA - Best Actress (Miglior attrice protagonista) | Nominee | Frozen River | 2010 |
LAFCA Award - Best Actress | Nominee | Frozen River | 2008 |
Best Actress - | Winner | Frozen River | 2008 |
NSFC Award - Best Actress | Nominee | Frozen River | 2009 |
Virtuoso Award - | Winner | Frozen River | 2009 |
UFCA Award - Best Actress | Winner | Frozen River | 2008 |
WFCC Award - Best Actress | Winner | Frozen River | 2008 |
Capri Actress Award - | Winner | Conviction | 2010 |
Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series | Winner | Louie | 2013 |
Melissa Leo roles
Movie / Series | Role |
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Thunder Force | Allie |
The Big Short | Georgia Hale |
Olympus Has Fallen | Secretary of Defense Ruth McMillan |
The Equalizer 2 | Susan Plummer |
The Equalizer | Susan Plummer |
Prisoners | Holly Jones |
Flight | Ellen Block |
Oblivion | Sally |
Snowden | Laura Poitras |
The Fighter | Alice Ward |
Body Brokers | Dr. White |
London Has Fallen | Defence Secretary Ruth Macmillan |
Righteous Kill | Cheryl Brooks |
21 Grams | Marianne Jordan |
Red State | Sara |
The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman | Kate |
Hide and Seek | Laura |
Seven Days in Utopia | Lily |
Frozen River | Ray Eddy |
Conviction | Nancy Taylor |
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada | Rachel |
Everybody's Fine | Colleen |
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn | Bette Altmann |
The Most Hated Woman in America | Madalyn Murray O'Hair |
Criminal Minds | Georgia Davis 1 episode, 2007 |
Made in Hollywood | Self 4 episodes, 2010-2016 |
Veronica Mars | Julia Smith 1 episode, 2004 |
Law & Order | Alice Sutton / ... 3 episodes, 1993-2008 |
The L Word | Winnie Mann 3 episodes, 2005 |
I'm Dying Up Here | Goldie Herschlag 20 episodes, 2017-2018 |
Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Maureen Curtis 1 episode, 2005 |
Broad City | Lori 1 episode, 2016 |
Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Self - Guest 1 episode, 2011 |
All My Children | Linda Warner 34 episodes, 1984-1988 |
Wayward Pines | Nurse Pam 11 episodes, 2015-2016 |
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Sybil Perez 1 episode, 2004 |
BoJack Horseman | Diane's Mother 2 episodes, 2014-2016 |
The Talk | Self - Guest 1 episode, 2012 |
Spenser: For Hire | Mary Hamilton 1 episode, 1987 |
Louie | Laurie 1 episode, 2012 |
Homicide: Life on the Street | Kay Howard / ... 77 episodes, 1993-1997 |
Miami Vice | Kathleen Gilfords 1 episode, 1988 |
The Young Riders | Emma Shannon 24 episodes, 1989-1990 |
Shark | Elizabeth Rourke 1 episode, 2006 |
The Oprah Winfrey Show | Self - Guest 2 episodes, 2011 |
Melissa Leo's Quotes
- [Excerpt from her 2011 Academy Award acceptance speech] When I watched Kate Winslet two years ago, it looked so fucking easy - Oops!
- [on interpreting the title role in Francine (2012)] To play someone when the character masks their own emotions, doesn't understand their own emotions, has no release for their own emotions, and yet is full of emotion - that is a much harder character to play than someone who has somewhere to put it.
- Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess.
- An actor's life is fairly lonely.
- I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke.
Interesting Facts about Melissa Leo
- Attended the State University of New York, Purchase (SUNY Purchase). Other alumni include actors Parker Posey, Wesley Snipes, Stanley Tucci, Sherry Stringfield, Adam Trese, Edie Falco, Seth Gilliam, Dwight Ewell, and Steven Weber; producers Bob Gosse and Todd Baker; and directors Danny Leiner, Nick Gomez, and Hal Hartley.
- In March 1997, ex-boyfriend John Heard was charged with harassing Melissa via telephone misuse and trespassing.
- Beat Julia Roberts for the role of Linda Warner on the soap opera All My Children (1970).
- Melissa studied at State University of New York, Purchase but did not graduate.
- Mother is Peggy Chessington Leo, a Californian teacher, and father, Arnold Leo, is an editor at Grove Press, and a fisherman spokesman for the East Hampton Baymen's Association.
- Was the runner-up for the 2004 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in 21 Grams (2003).
- Won the 2008 Utah Film Critics Association Award for Best Lead Performance by an Actress for her work in Frozen River (2008).
- Has worked with Kristen Stewart twice. Once in The Cake Eaters (2007) and again in Welcome to the Rileys (2010).
- According to Rob Lowe's biography, "Stories I Only Tell My Friends", he screen-tested with Melissa, who was in serious contention for the part of "Debbie" in About Last Night... (1986). However, the part eventually went to Demi Moore.
- She is a natural redhead.
- Despite appearing and being billed in early trailers for Lee Daniels's The Butler (2013) as Mamie Eisenhower, her part ultimately was cut from the film.
- Ulster County, New York [July 2008]
- Was the 137th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for The Fighter (2010) at The 83rd Annual Academy Awards (2011) on February 27, 2011.
- She has German, English, and distant Scottish, ancestry. Her surname is German and originates with a German immigrant, Gustave Leo.
- Member of the jury at the Sarajevo Film Festival in 2014.
- Was 26 when she welcomed her first child - son John Matthew "Jack" Heard III - on June 17, 1987. Jack's father was John Heard.
- She won an Oscar for playing Alice Eklund-Ward in The Fighter (2010), making her one of 17 actors to win the Award for playing a real person who was still alive at the evening of the Award ceremony (as of 2015). The other sixteen actors and their respective performances are: Spencer Tracy for playing Father Edward Flanagan in Boys Town (1938), Gary Cooper for playing Alvin C. York in Sergeant York (1941), Patty Duke for playing Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker (1962), Jason Robards for playing Ben Bradlee in All the President's Men (1976), Robert De Niro for playing Jake La Motta in Raging Bull (1980), Sissy Spacek for playing Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)_, Jeremy Irons for playing Claus Von Bullow in Reversal of Fortune (1990), Susan Sarandon for playing Sister Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking (1995), Geoffrey Rush for playing David Helfgott in Shine (1996), Julia Roberts for playing Erin Brockovich in Erin Brockovich (2000), Jim Broadbent for playing John Bayley in Iris (2001), Helen Mirren for playing Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006), Sandra Bullock for playing Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side (2009), Christian Bale for playing Dickie Eklund in The Fighter (2010), Meryl Streep for playing Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady (2011) and Eddie Redmayne for playing Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything (2014).
- Is one of 22 Oscar-winning actresses to have been born in the state of New York. The others are Alice Brady, Teresa Wright, Anne Revere, Celeste Holm, Claire Trevor, Judy Holliday, Shirley Booth, Susan Hayward, Patty Duke, Anne Bancroft, Barbra Streisand, Jane Fonda, Lee Grant, Beatrice Straight, Whoopi Goldberg, Mercedes Ruehl, Marisa Tomei, Mira Sorvino, Susan Sarandon, Jennifer Connelly and Anne Hathaway.
- Is one of 3 actresses who have won both the Best Supporting Actress Oscar (hers being for The Fighter (2010)) and the Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series Emmy (hers being for Louie (2010)). The other actresses are Cloris Leachman and Eileen Heckart.
- According to Rob Lowe's biography, "Stories I Only Tell My Friends", he screen tested with Melissa who was in serious contention for the part of "Debbie" in "About Last Night" (1986). However, the part eventually went to Demi Moore.
Additional information of Melissa Leo
Zodiac | Virgo |
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Lucky Number | 3 |
Lucky Stone | Sapphire |
Lucky Color | Green |
Best Match for Marriage | Taurus, Capricorn |
Break Up | John Heard |
Eye Color | Black |
Hair Color | Brown |
Religion | ChristianityΒ |
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