Melissa Leo (2011)

Melissa Leo on IMDb: Awards, nominations, and wins

Melissa Leo, Actress: The Fighter. Melissa Leo was born on September 14, 1960 in New York City, New York, USA as Melissa Chessington Leo. She is an actress and producer, known for The Fighter (2010), 21 Grams (2003) and Oblivion (2013).

Kirk Douglas presenting Melissa Leo with the Oscar® for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in "The Fighter" at the 83rd Academy Awards® in 2011.

PoptopicTV Min Reports: Melissa Leo becomes the first Academy Award winner to say the F-word in an Oscar acceptance speech for Best Supporting actress (The F...

When actress Melissa Leo was accepting an Academy Award for her role in 'The Fighter,' she got so excited she cursed on live television.

Apparently she wasn't content to let the Paramount and Relativity marketing machine do all the campaign work. So Best Supporting Actress frontrunner Melissa Leo personally paid for Hollywood trade ads (including on Deadline.

Melissa Leo has won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her scrappy role in "The Fighter." It's her first Oscar win. In "The Fighter," she plays Alice Ward, the passive-aggressive mom to half-brother boxers Dicky Eklund (Christian Bale) and up-and -comer "Irish" Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg). "The Fighter" was nominated for seven Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress (for both Leo and Amy Adams). In January, Leo won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. This is not the first time she's been in contention for an Oscar. In 2009 for her role in "Frozen River," Leo snagged a nomination for Best Actress. She lost to Kate Winslet in "The Reader." The character actress is perhaps best known for her role as Det. Sgt. Kay Howard in the TV series "Homicide: Life on the Street" from 1993–97. Leo has also been a cast member of "All My Children" and "The Young Riders." Her film work includes such movies as "21 Grams," "Confess" and "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada." Currently, she is a regular on the acclaimed HBO series "Treme." More Academy Awards coverage • Complete list of winners...

Melissa Leo was born on September 14, 1960 in New York City, New York, USA as Melissa Chessington Leo. She is an actress and producer, known for The ...

Melissa Leo Remembers Her Greatest Hits on the Red Carpet

In her new movie, “Novitiate,” the Oscar winner plays a strict nun. We talked to her about religion, those infamous “Consider” ads and being a gay icon.

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Melissa Chessington Leo (born September 14, 1960) is an American actress. After appearing on several television shows and films in the 1980s, a regular on the television shows All My Children and The Young Riders, in 1985 she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for her perform