Melissa Leo

Melissa Leo

Filmography

As Cast

Passenger (2026)
as Diana Larson
King Ivory (2025)
as Ginger Greene
The Knife (2025)
as Detective Carlsen
Guns Up (2025)
as Michael Temple
The Clean Up Crew (2024)
as Siobhan
Long Gone Heroes (2024)
as Olivia
AFTER: Poetry Destroys Silence (2024)
The Equalizer 3 (2023)
as Susan Plummer
Bonnie (2022)
as Self
Measure of Revenge (2022)
as Lillian
Coast (2022)
as Olivia
Alone Together (2022)
as Deborah
Jane (2022)
as Principal Rhodes
Body Brokers (2021)
as Dr. White
Thunder Force (2021)
as Allie
Ida Red (2021)
as Ida ‘Red’ Walker
I Know This Much Is True (2020)
as Concettina Ipolita Tempesta 'Ma' Birdsey
Dolly Parton's Heartstrings (2019)
as Amelia Meegers
The Ashram (2018)
as Chandra
The Equalizer 2 (2018)
as Susan Plummer
Unlovable (2018)
as Maddie
Furlough (2018)
as Joan Anderson
The Parting Glass (2018)
as Al
Mabel, Mabel Tiger Trainer (2018)
as Narrator
The View from Up Here (2017)
as Claire
The Most Hated Woman in America (2017)
as Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Novitiate (2017)
as Reverend Mother
I'm Dying Up Here (2017)
as Goldie
London Has Fallen (2016)
as Secretary of Defense Ruth McMillan
Burn Country (2016)
as Gloria
Snowden (2016)
as Laura Poitras
All the Way (2016)
as Lady Bird Johnson
The Ever After (2015)
as Penny
She's The Best Thing in It (2015)
as Self
The Big Short (2015)
as Georgia Hale
Damnation: The Flashback (2015)
as Noda Marra
After the Spill (2015)
as Narrator
The Butterfly, The Harp, and The Timepiece (2015)
as Papillon
Wayward Pines (2015)
as Nurse Pam
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn (2014)
as Bette Altmann
Dwegons and Leprechauns (2014)
as Grandma Fitz / Butterfly McDweg / Mrs. Fitzgerald
The Equalizer (2014)
as Susan Plummer
Broad City (2014)
as Lori
BoJack Horseman (2014)
as Ma Nguyen (voice)
Charlie Countryman (2013)
as Kate
Oblivion (2013)
as Sally
Prisoners (2013)
as Holly Jones
Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
as Secretary of Defense Ruth McMillan
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013)
as Robin
Bottled Up (2013)
as Fay
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy (2013)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Arsenio Hall Show (2013)
as Self
Francine (2012)
as Francine
Why Stop Now? (2012)
as Penny
Flight (2012)
as Ellen Block
Red State (2011)
as Sara
The Space Between (2011)
as Montine
Seven Days in Utopia (2011)
as Lily
The Sea Is All I Know (2011)
as Sara
Mildred Pierce (2011)
as Lucy Gessler
Welcome to the Rileys (2010)
as Lois Riley
Conviction (2010)
as Nancy Taylor
The Dry Land (2010)
as Martha
The Fighter (2010)
as Alice Ward
Queen of the Lot (2010)
as Aunt Bee
Treme (2010)
as Toni Bernette
Veronika Decides to Die (2009)
as Mari
According to Greta (2009)
as Karen
Everybody's Fine (2009)
as Colleen
Don McKay (2009)
as Marie
Dear Lemon Lima (2009)
as Mrs. Howard
Stephanie's Image (2009)
as Stephanie
True Adolescents (2009)
as Sharon Mitchell
Frozen River (2008)
as Ray Eddy
Lullaby (2008)
as Stephanie
Righteous Kill (2008)
as Cheryl
Santa Mesa (2008)
as Maggie
The Alphabet Killer (2008)
as Kathy Walsh
Black Irish (2007)
as Margaret McKay
Racing Daylight (2007)
as Sadie / Anna
One Night (2007)
as Wendy
Stephanie Daley (2007)
as Miri Daley
Midnight Son (2007)
as Rita
Hollywood Dreams (2007)
as Aunt Bee
The Cake Eaters (2007)
as Ceci Kimbrough
I Believe in America (2007)
as Soto
Dear Lemon Lima (2007)
as Mrs. Howard
Mr. Woodcock (2007)
as Sally Jansen
Bomb (2007)
The House Is Burning (2006)
as Mrs. Miller
The Limbo Room (2006)
as KC Collins
Shark (2006)
as Elizabeth Rourke
Hide and Seek (2005)
as Laura
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)
as Rachel
Runaway (2005)
as Lisa Adler
American Gun (2005)
as Louise
Confess (2005)
as Agnes Lessor
Criminal Minds (2005)
as Sheriff Georgia Davis
From Other Worlds (2004)
as Miriam
Veronica Mars (2004)
as Julia Smith
The L Word (2004)
as Winnie Mann
21 Grams (2003)
as Marianne Jordan
Cold Case (2003)
as Tayna Raymes (1994 & 2007)
Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001)
as Maureen Curtis
Homicide: The Movie (2000)
as Kay Howard
Fear of Fiction (2000)
as Sigrid Anderssen
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000)
as Sybil Perez
The 24 Hour Woman (1999)
as Dr. Suzanne Pincus
Code of Ethics (1999)
as Jo DeAngelo
Legacy (1998)
as Emma Bradford
Who Is Henry Jaglom? (1997)
as Self
Last Summer in the Hamptons (1995)
as Trish Axelrod
In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice (1995)
as Carol Manning
Garden (1995)
as Elizabeth
Scarlett (1994)
as Suellen O'Hara Benteen
The Ballad of Little Jo (1993)
as Beatrice Grey
Homicide: Life on the Street (1993)
as Kay Howard
By a Thread (1992)
as Helen
Immaculate Conception (1992)
as Hannah
Venice/Venice (1992)
as Peggy
Carolina Skeletons (1991)
as Cassie
The Bride in Black (1990)
as Mary Margaret
Law & Order (1990)
as Donna Cheponis
Law & Order (1990)
as Defense Attorney Alice Sutton
Law & Order (1990)
as Sherri Quinn
Nasty Boys (1989)
as Katie Morrissey
The Young Riders (1989)
as Emma Shannon
A Time of Destiny (1988)
as Josie Larraneta
Deadtime Stories (1986)
as Judith 'MaMa' Baer
Streetwalkin' (1985)
as Cookie
Always … But Not Forever (1985)
as Peggy
Silent Witness (1985)
as Patti Mullen
Spenser: For Hire (1985)
The Equalizer (1985)
as Irina Dzershinsky
I'm Only There... (1984)
as Maggie
Miami Vice (1984)
as Kathleen Gilfords
Ron Forever
as Hilda
The Rooster Prince
as Elaine
The Mannequin
Supermax

As Crew

Furlough (2018)
Producer
Bottled Up (2013)
Producer
The Mannequin
Executive Producer