Melissa Leo – American Actress
Melissa Chessington Leo, aka Margaret May II or Margaret May (born September 14, 1960) is an American Academy Award-nominated actress best known for playing the tough-minded shift-Det. Sgt. Kay Howard on the award-winning TV series Homicide: Life on the Street from 1993–1997. She has also been a regular on All My Children and The Young Riders. Feature films she has appeared in include A Time of Destiny, Last Summer in the Hamptons, 21 Grams, Confess, and The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. In 2009, she received an Oscar nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role at the 81st Academy Awards for her role in Frozen River.
Leo was born in Manhattan, New York City, New York, the daughter of Peggy, a teacher, and Arnold Leo, an editor at Grove Press, fisherman, and spokesman for the East Hampton Baymen’s Association. She has a son with actor and former boyfriend John Heard named John Matthew Heard (born 1987).
eo was raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. She is a former resident of Putney, Vermont and now lives in Stone Ridge, New York.
Other Information
- Birth name: Melissa Chessington Leo
- Born : September 14, 1960
- Birth place: Manhattan, New York, New York
Links
- Melissa Leo at the Internet Movie Database
- Profile/Interview with Scott Feinberg About Life, Career, and “Frozen River”
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