Melissa Leo

14 September, 1960

| 1.63 m

Actress

Producer

Biography

Melissa Leo

Melissa Leo is an American actress. She is known for her Academy Award-winning performance in the 2010 film 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 Rzeka ocalenia (2008) and the HBO series Mildred Pierce.

Movies

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.

Set in Middle America, a group of teens receive an online invitation for sex, though they soon encounter fundamentalists with a much more sinister agenda.

A working mother puts herself through law school in an effort to represent her brother, who has been wrongfully convicted of murder and has exhausted his chances to appeal his conviction through public defenders.

A mom looks for another source of income, when her husband leaves with the money meant for the new mobile home. A nearby Indian territory stretches across the border to Canada with a drivable frozen river between. Smuggling?

On a business trip to New Orleans, a damaged man seeks salvation by caring for a wayward young woman.

When a college piano prodigy tries to check his mother into rehab, he is taken hostage by her drug dealer and swept along on a wild adventure.

The life of Madelyn Murray O'Hair, the outspoken activist and founder of American Atheists.

Novitiate

Novitiate (2017)

6.72h 3m

Metascore: 73

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.