Melissa Leo

Person · Open Library

Works

2

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Film & TV

Acting · Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Melissa Leo (born September 14, 1960) is an American actress. She made her acting debut in 1985, for which she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Ingenue/Woman in the Drama Series “All My Children”. Her most notable role as was as Det. Sgt. Kay Howard on “Homicide: Life on the Street” for the show's first five seasons from 1993–1997. Following several films, Leo received…

Known for

• Passenger — Diana2026
• King Ivory — Ginger Greene2025
• The Knife — Detective Carlsen2025
• Guns Up — Michael Temple2025
• The Clean Up Crew — Siobhan2024
• Long Gone Heroes — Olivia2024
• AFTER: Poetry Destroys Silence2024
• The Equalizer 3 — Susan Plummer2023
• Bonnie — Self2022
• Measure of Revenge — Lillian2022

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

France

Active from

1916-08-24

Active to

1993-07-14

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

6

Total plays

7

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Random Forests

   · 2001 · cited 116,023x

2. The ERA5 global reanalysis

   · 2020 · cited 24,208x

3. Global cancer statistics

   · 2011 · cited 23,192x

4. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,617x

5. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,787x

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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.”
• “I might have an empathy for the great art of mothering, that understands we can be imperfect and yet be doing our best as a mother. And I'm not afraid to show that, I guess.”
• “Well, I don't think of myself as a feminist at all. As soon as we start labeling and categorizing ourselves and others, that's going to shut down the world.”
• “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.”
• “If you can’t separate yourself and learn from what either worked or didn’t work you probably shouldn’t be acting in the first place, It’s a tool to learn.”
• “It’s a judgment about the character, and no, you can’t come into the character judging them as you’re playing them. That’s the film-maker’s job to choose the tone in which the character is seen.”

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