Melissa Leo - Famous Actor

Melissa Leo Net Worth

$9,000,000

Famous American actress, Melissa Leo has a net worth of $9 million dollars, according to the latest estimates. Acting since the 198s, she has had several roles in movies and TV series since her debut in ‘All My Children’. Winning an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in ‘The Fighter’ was one of her career highlights.

Key facts:

Here are key facts about Melissa Leo mentioned in the provided text:
  • Melissa Leo made her acting debut in the soap opera 'All My Children' in 1984.
  • She won a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Ingenue/Woman in a Drama Series for her first part.
  • Leo appeared in 77 episodes over five seasons as Detective Sergeant Kay Howard in 'Homicide: Life on the Street'.
  • She won a Phoenix Film Critics Society award for Best Ensemble Acting for her part alongside Sean Penn and Naomi Watts in '21 Grams'.
  • Leo's role in 'Frozen River' earned her a Best Actress Oscar nomination, and she won her first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for 201's 'The Fighter'.

Basic Information About Melissa Leo

Full NameMelissa Leo
CategoryCelebrities β€Ί Actors
ProfessionsActor
Net worth$9,000,000
Date of birth1960-09-14 (64 years old)
Place of birthManhattan
NationalityUnited States of America
EducationBellows Falls High School, Mountview Theater School, University of New York
FatherArnold Leo
MotherPeggy Chessington Leo
Siblings(One) Erik Leo
Kids(Two) John Matthew Leo and Adam Leo
GenderFemale
Social Mediaβ†—οΈŽ Wikipedia β†—οΈŽ Twitter β†—οΈŽ IMDb

What Movie Awards did Melissa Leo win?


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Melissa Leo awards

Award Name State Movie / Series Name Year
VVFP Award - Best Supporting PerformanceNomineeThirteen2003
CinEuphoria - Best Supporting Actress - International CompetitionNomineePrisoners2014
NBR Award - Best EnsembleWinnerPrisoners2013
Movies for Grownups Award - Best Supporting ActressNomineeThe Fighter2011
Festival Prize - Best Supporting ActressWinnerThe Fighter2010
Capri Actress Award - WinnerThe Fighter2010
COFCA Award - Best EnsembleWinnerThe Fighter2011
NYFCC Award - Best Supporting ActressWinnerThe Fighter2010
Mommie Dearest Worst Screen Mom of the Year Award - WinnerThe Fighter2010
NSFC Award - Best Supporting ActressNomineeAnimal Kingdom2011
Chlotrudis Award - Best Supporting ActressNomineeRed State2012
Fright Meter Award - Best Supporting ActressNomineeRed State2011
Oscar - Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading RoleNomineeFrozen River2009
Actor - Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading RoleNomineeFrozen River2009
Critics Choice Award - Best ActressNomineeFrozen River2009
COFCA Award - Best ActressWinnerFrozen River2009
CFCA Award - Best ActressNomineeFrozen River2008
DFCS Award - Best ActressNomineeFrozen River2008
Independent Spirit Award - Best Female LeadWinnerFrozen River2009
FFCC Award - Best ActressWinnerFrozen River2008
HFCS Award - Best ActressNomineeFrozen River2008
ICP Award - Best Lead PerformanceNomineeFrozen River2008
IOMA - Best Actress (Miglior attrice protagonista)NomineeFrozen River2010
LAFCA Award - Best ActressNomineeFrozen River2008
Best Actress - WinnerFrozen River2008
NSFC Award - Best ActressNomineeFrozen River2009
Virtuoso Award - WinnerFrozen River2009
UFCA Award - Best ActressWinnerFrozen River2008
WFCC Award - Best ActressWinnerFrozen River2008
Capri Actress Award - WinnerConviction2010
Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy SeriesWinnerLouie2013

Melissa Leo roles

Movie / Series Role
Thunder ForceAllie
The Big ShortGeorgia Hale
Olympus Has FallenSecretary of Defense Ruth McMillan
The Equalizer 2Susan Plummer
The EqualizerSusan Plummer
PrisonersHolly Jones
FlightEllen Block
OblivionSally
SnowdenLaura Poitras
The FighterAlice Ward
Body BrokersDr. White
London Has FallenDefence Secretary Ruth Macmillan
Righteous KillCheryl Brooks
21 GramsMarianne Jordan
Red StateSara
The Necessary Death of Charlie CountrymanKate
Hide and SeekLaura
Seven Days in UtopiaLily
Frozen RiverRay Eddy
ConvictionNancy Taylor
The Three Burials of Melquiades EstradaRachel
Everybody's FineColleen
The Angriest Man in BrooklynBette Altmann
The Most Hated Woman in AmericaMadalyn Murray O'Hair
Criminal MindsGeorgia Davis 1 episode, 2007
Made in HollywoodSelf 4 episodes, 2010-2016
Veronica MarsJulia Smith 1 episode, 2004
Law & OrderAlice Sutton / ... 3 episodes, 1993-2008
The L WordWinnie Mann 3 episodes, 2005
I'm Dying Up HereGoldie Herschlag 20 episodes, 2017-2018
Law & Order: Criminal IntentMaureen Curtis 1 episode, 2005
Broad CityLori 1 episode, 2016
Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres ShowSelf - Guest 1 episode, 2011
All My ChildrenLinda Warner 34 episodes, 1984-1988
Wayward PinesNurse Pam 11 episodes, 2015-2016
CSI: Crime Scene InvestigationSybil Perez 1 episode, 2004
BoJack HorsemanDiane's Mother 2 episodes, 2014-2016
The TalkSelf - Guest 1 episode, 2012
Spenser: For HireMary Hamilton 1 episode, 1987
LouieLaurie 1 episode, 2012
Homicide: Life on the StreetKay Howard / ... 77 episodes, 1993-1997
Miami ViceKathleen Gilfords 1 episode, 1988
The Young RidersEmma Shannon 24 episodes, 1989-1990
SharkElizabeth Rourke 1 episode, 2006
The Oprah Winfrey ShowSelf - 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.

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Interesting Facts about Melissa Leo

  1. 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.
  2. In March 1997, ex-boyfriend John Heard was charged with harassing Melissa via telephone misuse and trespassing.
  3. Beat Julia Roberts for the role of Linda Warner on the soap opera All My Children (1970).
  4. Melissa studied at State University of New York, Purchase but did not graduate.
  5. 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.
  6. Was the runner-up for the 2004 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in 21 Grams (2003).
  7. Won the 2008 Utah Film Critics Association Award for Best Lead Performance by an Actress for her work in Frozen River (2008).
  8. Has worked with Kristen Stewart twice. Once in The Cake Eaters (2007) and again in Welcome to the Rileys (2010).
  9. 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.
  10. She is a natural redhead.
  11. 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.
  12. Ulster County, New York [July 2008]
  13. 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.
  14. She has German, English, and distant Scottish, ancestry. Her surname is German and originates with a German immigrant, Gustave Leo.
  15. Member of the jury at the Sarajevo Film Festival in 2014.
  16. Was 26 when she welcomed her first child - son John Matthew "Jack" Heard III - on June 17, 1987. Jack's father was John Heard.
  17. 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).
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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

ZodiacVirgo
Lucky Number3
Lucky StoneSapphire
Lucky ColorGreen
Best Match for MarriageTaurus, Capricorn
Break UpJohn Heard
Eye ColorBlack
Hair ColorBrown
ReligionChristianityΒ 

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