Melissa Leo

'Melissa Leo', whose birth name is Melissa Chessington Leo, born on September 14, 1960 in Manhattan, New York Click to look into! >> Read More... , USA, is a television and film actress who has predominantly worked in Hollywood. Her mother Margaret was a school teacher while her father Arnold Leo III was a fisherman, Grove Press's editor, and used to be a spokesperson of the Association of East Hampton Baymen.

She also has a sibling named Erik Leo. When she was a child, her parents separated, and her mother shifted to her maternal home in Red Clover Commune, Putney, with both her children with her maternal grandparents namely Frances and James Chessington. Roger Leo, her uncle, is a journalist while her aunt Christine Leo Roussel is an art historian.

Melissa studied at Bellows Falls High School. As a child, she was interested in performing arts and was a regular performer at the Bread and Puppet Theater Company. He has also taken formal education in acting from London's Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and SUNY Purchase. However, she left the institution before graduating and started to give audition for other crucial roles.

In 1984, she made her debut with ‘All My Children’. It was a huge success, and she also won a nomination in the Emmy Awards in the category of the Outstanding Ingenue/Woman in a Drama Series. Since then she has appeared in several TV series and films like Last Summer in the Hamptons, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, Night of the Living Jews, among many others.

She is a very versatile actress who has acted on projects of several genres. She also has several award and trophies in her kitty including the coveted Oscar. However, her self-promoting strategy at the Oscar had gotten her into trouble with her Hollywood studio. While most actresses like to call themselves feminist, Melissa hates the categorization and has denounced the word several times in her interviews.

Her speech at an awards function where she belittled actress Kate Winslet From television appearances to Hollywood’s film cr >> Read More... also created quite a ruckus for her and she had to apologize for the controversy to stop.Currently, she resides in Stone Ridge, New York. In 1987, she and her then-boyfriend John Heard John Heard, born on March 7, 1945, in Washington, >> Read More... , became the parent to a baby son named Jack Matthew Heard.