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Melissa Leo

English
Filmography

Prisoners

2013
as Holly Jones

The Equalizer

2014
as Susan Plummer

The Equalizer 2

2018
as Susan Plummer

Wayward Pines

2015
as Nurse Pam

The Big Short

2015
as Georgia Hale

Thunder Force

2021
as Allie

Oblivion

2013
as Sally

I Know This Much Is True

2020
as Concettina Ipolita Tempesta Birdsey

Snowden

2016
as Laura Poitras

Flight

2012
as Ellen Block

Olympus Has Fallen

2013
as Secretary of Defense Ruth McMillan

London Has Fallen

2016
as Secretary of Defense Ruth McMillan

The Fighter

2010
as Alice Eklund-Ward

I'm Dying Up Here

2017
as Goldie

Righteous Kill

2008
as Cheryl

Hide and Seek

2005
as Laura

Dolly Parton's Heartstrings

2019
as Amelia Meegers

21 Grams

2003
as Marianne Jordan

Mildred Pierce

2011
as Lucy Gessler

Treme

2010
as Toni Bernette

The Space Between

2011
as Montine

Scarlett

1994
as Suellen O'Hara Benteen

Jane

2022
as Principal Rhodes

True Adolescents

2009
as Sharon

Runaway

2005
as Lisa Adler

After the Spill

2015
as Narrator

Charlie Countryman

2013
as Kate

Burn Country

2016
as Gloria

Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy

2013
as Narrator (voice)

Mabel, Mabel Tiger Trainer

2018
as Narrator

Dwegons and Leprechauns

2014
as Grandma Fitz / Butterfly McDweg / Mrs. Fitzgerald

She's The Best Thing in It

2015
as Herself

The Cake Eaters

2007
as Ceci Kimbrough

Welcome to the Rileys

2010
as Lois Riley

Carolina Skeletons

1991
as Cassie

Unlovable

2018
as Maddie

The Sea Is All I Know

2011
as Sara

All the Way

2016
as Lady Bird Johnson

The Most Hated Woman in America

2017
as Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Frozen River

2008
as Ray Eddy

Last Summer in the Hamptons

1995
as Trish Axelrod

The Ballad of Little Jo

1993
as Beatrice Grey

Deadtime Stories

1986
as Judith 'MaMa' Baer

Venice/Venice

1992
as Peggy

The Parting Glass

2018

Black Irish

2007
as Margaret McKay

Code of Ethics

1998
as Jo DeAngelo

Silent Witness

1985
as Patti Mullen

The View from Up Here

2017
as Claire

Novitiate

2017
as Reverend Mother

Hollywood Dreams

2007
as Aunt Bee

Nasty Boys

1989
as Katie Morrissey

Call Me Crazy: A Five Film

2013
as Robin

Don McKay

2009
as Marie

The Angriest Man in Brooklyn

2014
as Bette Altmann

Red State

2011
as Sara

The Clean Up Crew

2024
as Siobhan

Seven Days in Utopia

2011
as Lily

Damnation: The Flashback

2015
as Noda Marra

Furlough

2018
as Joan Anderson

The Ashram

2018
as Chandra

American Gun

2005
as Louise

Homicide: Life on the Street

1993
as Kay Howard

The House Is Burning

2006
as Mrs. Miller

The Ever After

2015
as Penny

Everybody's Fine

2009
as Colleen

Measure of Revenge

2022
as Lillian

Body Brokers

2021
as Dr. White

Dear Lemon Lima

2009
as Mrs. Howard

Racing Daylight

2007
as Sadie / Anna

Francine

2012
as Francine

According to Greta

2009
as Karen

In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice

1995
as Carol Manning

Bottled Up

2013
as Fay

The Dry Land

2010
as Martha

Veronika Decides to Die

2009
as Mari

The Young Riders

1989
as Emma Shannon

Homicide: The Movie

2000
as Kay Howard

Dear Governor Cuomo

2012
as Melissa Leo

Confess

2005
as Agnes Lessor

One Night

2007
as Wendy

Why Stop Now?

2012
as Penny

Long Gone Heroes

2024
as Olivia

Stephanie's Image

2009
as Stephanie

Stephanie Daley

2006
as Miri Daley

The Bride in Black

1990
as Mary Margaret

Streetwalkin'

1985
as Cookie

Fear of Fiction

2000
as Sigrid Anderssen

Conviction

2010
as Nancy Taylor

Immaculate Conception

1992
as Hannah / Alistair's partner

A Time of Destiny

1988
as Josie Larraneta

Ida Red

2021
as Ida ‘Red’ Walker

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

2005
as Rachel

The Only Real Game

2013
as Narrator

Producer

Movie Furlough 2018
Movie Bottled Up 2013

Guest Star

Episode Broad City
Co-Op 		2016
Episode Law & Order
Sweeps 		1993
Episode Law & Order
Personae Non Grata 		2008
Episode Homicide: Life on the Street
The Wedding 		1996
Episode Miami Vice
Bad Timing 		1988
Episode Law & Order
Who Let the Dogs Out? 		2001
Episode Veronica Mars
Meet John Smith 		2004
Episode Legacy
Emma 		1998
Episode Shark
Pilot 		2006
Episode The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Anthony Hopkins 		2011
Episode Legacy
The Search Party 		1998
Episode The Equalizer
The Defector 		1985
Episode CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Harvest 		2004
Episode The L Word
Loyal 		2005
Episode Criminal Minds
No Way Out (1) 		2007
Episode Law & Order: Criminal Intent
The Good Child 		2005
Episode Cold Case
Thrill Kill 		2007
Episode Spenser: For Hire
Mary Hamilton 		1987
Episode Dolly Parton's Heartstrings
Two Doors Down 		2019
Episode Louie (2010)
Telling Jokes / Set-Up 		2012