Melissa Leo’s Birth Date:
September 14, 1960
Place of Birth:
New York City, New York
Net Worth:
Melissa Leo is an American actress who has a net worth of $9 million dollars according to Celebrity Net Worth. Born in New York City in 1960, Melissa Leo grew up in Manhattan and made her acting debut in soap opera “All My Children” in 1984.
Award-Worthy Performances:
Melissa Leo’s earned two Academy Award nominations as of 2011. In 2009, she was nominated for her lead role in Frozen River. In 2011, Leo earned a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for playing the tough as nails mother of boxers Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg) and Dicky Eklund (Christian Bale) in David O. Russell’s The Fighter. In addition, Leo won a Golden Globe in 2011 for The Fighter. She also earned Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations for her work in The Fighter and Frozen River.
Notable Movie Credits:
Always (1985)
A Time of Destiny (1988)
The Ballad of Little Jo (1993)
Las Summer in the Hamptons (1995)
21 Grams (2003)
Hide and Seek (2005)
Runaway (2005)
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)
American Gun (2005)
Stephanie Daley (2006)
Black Irish (2007)
The Cake Eaters (2007)
Racing Daylight (2007)
One Night (2007)
Frozen River (2008)
The Alphabet Killer (2008)
Santa Mesa (2008)
Righteous Kill (2008)
Stephanie’s Image (2009)
Don McKay (2009)
Veronika Decides to Die (2009)
Everybody’s Fine (2009)
Welcome to the Rileys (2010)
The Dry Land (2010)
Conviction (2010)
The Fighter (2010)
Red State (2011)
Personal Facts:
Leo studied drama at both the Mount View Theatre School in London, England and with the SUNY Purchase Acting Program. Leo has a son named John Matthew Heard, born in 1987, by her then boyfriend, actor John Heard.
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