Melissa Leo: Summary
- Recent Role:
- Donna Cheponis on Law & Order
- Birthday:
- 9-14-1960
- Birthplace:
- New York, New York
- Birth Name:
A chameleon-like character actress who, by her own admission, enjoys burying herself totally into roles and not being a recognizable face Melissa Leo has turned in some great performances on television and in film. Leo was born in New York City in 1960 and graduated from SUNY Purchase before entering television. Her first break came in 1985 when she was cast as Linda Warner on the ABC soap...
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- Mellisa played a dual role, as Kay Howard's sister Carrie, at Meldrick Lewis's wedding in "The Wedding" episode of Homicide. This was speculated on at great length and later confirmed by a fellow cast member.(edit)
- One of the reasons Melissa left the ABC show The Young Riders was over a prop. According to Miss Leo, an episode dealt with her character, Emma, and a stolen pocket watch that had been her father's and was the only thing from her former life that Emma had taken west with her. Josh Brolin's character recovers it for her. The next week she asked the producers if she could wear the pocket watch and was informed that it had already been sent back to the rental house, In her own words, "That was really painful and lost me the job eventually."(edit)
- Miss Leo won the role of Linda Warner on the ABC soap All My Children for the 1984-'85 season, beating out, among other actresses, Julia Roberts.
(edit) - Melissa was a member of the cast of Tommy Lee Jones's The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, which won the Western Heritage Award Outstanding Theatrical Motion Picture in 2006.(edit)
- Her personal and legal problems with ex-lover John Heard were suspected by many in the industry as one of the reasons she did not return to Homicide: Life on the Street after the cast shakeup before the 1997 season.(edit)
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