Melissa Leo

Actor, Producer

Birthdate: Sep 14, 1960

Birthplace: New York City, New York, USA

Melissa Leo is an American actress. She is known for her Academy Award-winning performance in the 2010 film The Fighter (2010). She was born on September 14, 1960, in New York City. Leo starred as the mother of boxer Micky Ward in the 2010 film The Fighter, also starring Mark Wahlberg. The role garnered her both Golden Globe (Best Supporting Actress) and Oscar awards. Other accolades include award nominations for the film Frozen River (2008) and the HBO series Mildred Pierce.

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Movies

Known For

The Fighter

(2010)

Prisoners

(2013)

Frozen River

(2008)

Conviction

(2010)

Melissa Leo Movies

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2026 |
Passenger
Passenger
2026
Horror
A few weeks into their van life adventure, a young couple witnesses a horrific accident that leaves the driver dead. Soon they're being pursued by a demonic stalker who's impossible to outrun and follows them wherever they go.

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2025 |
King Ivory
King Ivory
2025
R
2h 10m
Crime, Drama, Thriller
6.2
Based upon extensive research with law enforcement, gangs, inmates, migrants, and addicts, an exposé on fentanyl trafficking, and its effect on all walks of life.
asGinger Greene
2025 |
Guns Up
Guns Up
2025
R
1h 32m
Action, Comedy
5.3
On the brink of leaving "The Family," a mob henchman's final job goes off the rails. With the clock ticking, the ex-cop has one night to get his unsuspecting family out of the city before he gets snuffed out.
asMichael Temple
2024 |
King Ivory
2024 |
The Knife
2022 |
Bonnie
2022 |
Jane
Jane
2022
R
1h 23m
Thriller
4.9
Olivia is a young woman who gets deferred from her dream college and experiences frightening panic attacks. In an attempt to regain some sense of control, she embarks on a social media-fueled rampage against those that stand in her way.
asPrincipal Rhodes
2022 |
Alone Together
Alone Together
2022
R
1h 38m
Drama, Romance
5.4
Two strangers embroiled in bad relationships wind up in the same upstate-New York Airbnb.
asDeborah
2022 |
Measure of Revenge
Measure of Revenge
2022
1h 32m
Thriller
3.9
The story follows theater actress Lillian Cooper (Leo) whose son (Weary) dies mysteriously. When the investigating officer rules the cause of death an accidental overdose, Lillian conducts her own investigation which leads her to an unlikely alliance with her son's former drug de... Read all
asLillian
2021 |
Body Brokers
2021 |
Coast
2021 |
The Space Between
The Space Between
2021
R
1h 38m
Drama
Micky Adams, an eccentric has-been rock musician, loses his grip on reality all while his record label is looking to drop him. A young Charlie Porter is tasked with traveling to the musician's bizarre home and forcing Micky Adams out of his contract.
2021 |
Thunder Force
Thunder Force
2021
PG-13
1h 45m
Action, Adventure, Comedy
In a world where supervillains are commonplace, two estranged childhood best friends reunite after one devises a treatment that gives them powers to protect their city.
2018 |
Mabel, Mabel, Tiger Trainer
2018 |
The Ashram
2018 |
The Parting Glass
2018 |
Unlovable
2018 |
The Equalizer 2
The Equalizer 2
2018
R
2h 1m
Action, Crime, Thriller
6.7
Robert McCall serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed, but how far will he go when that is someone he loves?
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2018 |
Furlough
2017 |
The Most Hated Woman in America
2017 |
Novitiate
Novitiate
2017
R
2h 3m
Drama
6.7
Set in the early 1960s and during the era of Vatican II, a young woman in training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, the changing church and sexuality.
asReverend Mother
2016 |
Burn Country
2016 |
Snowden
Snowden
2016
R
2h 14m
Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
7.3
The NSA's illegal surveillance techniques are leaked to the public by one of the agency's employees, Edward Snowden, in the form of thousands of classified documents distributed to the press.
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2016 |
All the Way
All the Way
2016
TV-14
2h 12m
Biography, Drama, History
7.2
Lyndon B. Johnson becomes the President of the United States in the chaotic aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination, and spends his first year in office fighting to pass the Civil Rights Act.
asLady Bird Johnson
2015 |
After the Spill
2015 |
She's the Best Thing in It
2014 |
Dwegons and Leprechauns
2014 |
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
2014 |
The Ever After
2014 |
The Equalizer
The Equalizer
2014
2h 12m
Action, Crime, Thriller
7.3
A man who believes he has put his mysterious past behind him cannot stand idly by when he meets a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters.
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2013 |
The Only Real Game
2013 |
Bottled Up
2013 |
Charlie Countryman
2013 |
Prisoners
Prisoners
2013
R
2h 33m
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
8.2
Keller Dover is facing every parent's worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her friend, Joy, and as minutes turn to hours, panic sets in. The only lead is an RV that had been parked on their street.
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2013 |
Oblivion
Oblivion
2013
PG-13
2h 4m
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
7
Jack Harper, a drone repairman stationed on Earth that has been ravaged by war with extraterrestrials, questions his identity after rescuing the woman who keeps appearing in his dreams.
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asSally
2013 |
Olympus Has Fallen
Olympus Has Fallen
2013
TV-14
1h 59m
Action, Thriller
6.5
When North Korean terrorists launch a coordinated assault on the White House and take the President hostage, disgraced Secret Service agent Mike Banning uses his inside knowledge of the building to fight back. Trapped inside the besieged compound, he must save the President and prevent a broader attack, turning a desperate situation into a daring mission against overwhelming odds.
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asSecretary of Defense Ruth McMillan
2012 |
Dear Governor Cuomo
2012 |
Francine
2011 |
Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best
2012 |
Why Stop Now?
2008 |
Santa Mesa
2011 |
Seven Days in Utopia
2011 |
Red State
2010 |
Conviction
2010 |
The Fighter
2010 |
Welcome to the Rileys
2010 |
The Dry Land
2009 |
Don McKay
2009 |
According to Greta
2009 |
Stephanie's Image
2009 |
True Adolescents
2009 |
Veronika Decides to Die
2009 |
Everybody's Fine
2008 |
Frozen River
2007 |
I Believe in America
2007 |
Racing Daylight
2007 |
The Cake Eaters
2007 |
Black Irish
2006 |
Hollywood Dreams
2006 |
Stephanie Daley
2006 |
The House Is Burning
2006 |
The Limbo Room
2005 |
Confess
2005 |
Runaway
2005 |
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
2005 |
Hide and Seek
2000 |
Fear of Fiction
1999 |
The 24 Hour Woman
1998 |
Code of Ethics
1996 |
Under the Bridge
1995 |
Last Summer in the Hamptons
1993 |
The Ballad of Little Jo
1992 |
Immaculate Conception
1992 |
Venice/Venice
1990 |
By a Thread
1988 |
A Time of Destiny
1986 |
Deadtime Stories
1985 |
Always
1985 |
Streetwalkin'