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Melissa Chessington Leo (born September 14, 1960) is an American actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and two Critics' Choice Awards. After appearing on several television shows and films in the 1980s, Leo became a regular on the television shows All My Children, for which she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award, and The Young Riders. Her breakthrough role came in 1993 as detective and later sergeant Kay Howard on the television series Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–1997). In 2008, Leo received critical acclaim for her performance as Ray Eddy in the crime drama film Frozen River, earning her several nominations and awards, including a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 2010, Leo earned widespread acclaim and won several awards for her performance as Alice Eklund-Ward in the biographical sports drama film The Fighter, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 2013, she won a Primetime Emmy Award for her guest role on the television series Louie. She starred in the 2015 Fox event series Wayward Pines as Nurse Pam. She then starred in the 2017 Netflix film The Most Hated Woman in America as American Atheists founder Madalyn Murray O'Hair.

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“Television can be a very frustrating job for almost anybody working in television, because you’re shooting episodically, and you don’t know one scene from the next, and maybe they change around.”
— Melissa speak about working on television in 2010.
“I just want a straight-up truth,.I don’t need a lot of compliments on what’s working, I probably know that it’s working.”
— Melissa speak on trust in 2013.
“It’s a difficult thing for a woman to say, because I would really like more working women in all kinds of jobs, being a working woman myself.”
— Melisa speak on working with a female director in 2017.
“It doesn’t happen to me. I don’t even get asked out on dates. I’m a single woman and not by choice. It’s not the first interview I’ve mentioned it in. The dog might help.”
— Melissa speak on sexual harassment in 2017.
“I think I made a huge mistake, the mistake was that I began to expect," said Leo. "The mistake I made was to expect all those big, important fellas to call me up.”
— Melissa speak about her mistake in 2018.
“I understand the value of humor and I do believe laughter is a good medicine.”
— Melissa speak on humor in 2019.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Overview

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Notable quotes

“Television can be a very frustrating job for almost anybody working in television, because you’re shooting episodically, and you don’t know one scene from the next, and maybe they change around.”
— Melissa speak about working on television in 2010.
“I just want a straight-up truth,.I don’t need a lot of compliments on what’s working, I probably know that it’s working.”
— Melissa speak on trust in 2013.
“It’s a difficult thing for a woman to say, because I would really like more working women in all kinds of jobs, being a working woman myself.”
— Melisa speak on working with a female director in 2017.
“It doesn’t happen to me. I don’t even get asked out on dates. I’m a single woman and not by choice. It’s not the first interview I’ve mentioned it in. The dog might help.”
— Melissa speak on sexual harassment in 2017.
“I think I made a huge mistake, the mistake was that I began to expect," said Leo. "The mistake I made was to expect all those big, important fellas to call me up.”
— Melissa speak about her mistake in 2018.
“I understand the value of humor and I do believe laughter is a good medicine.”
— Melissa speak on humor in 2019.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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🎬 Filmography

Melissa Leo across IJR