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Melissa Leo

1960 - Today

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Melissa Chessington Leo (born September 14, 1960) is an American actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and two Critics' Choice Awards. After appearing on several television shows and films in the 1980s, Leo became a regular on the television shows All My Children, for which she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award, and The Young Riders. Her breakthrough role came in 1993 as detective and later sergeant Kay Howard on the television series Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–1997). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Melissa Leo is the 1,697th most popular actor (down from 1,549th in 2019), the 3,103rd most popular biography from United States (down from 2,603rd in 2019) and the 825th most popular American Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Melissa Leo ranks 1,697 out of 13,578. Before her are Jack Nance, Aleksander Krupa, Ana de Armas, Dita Parlo, Brigitte Lahaie, and Magali Noël. After her are Elsa Pataky, Annie Potts, Bill Cobbs, Alfre Woodard, Eva Dahlbeck, and Matthew Fox.

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Among people born in 1960, Melissa Leo ranks 105. Before her are Saif al-Adel, Sid Eudy, Mehmet Oz, Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Craig Mello, and Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean. After her are Johnny Briceño, Kevin Carter, Ersin Tatar, Laurent Fignon, Mauro Tassotti, and Carlos Mozer.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Melissa Leo ranks 3,103 out of 20,380. Before her are Cannonball Adderley (1928), Thomas A. Hendricks (1819), SZA (1990), Joseph Kittinger (1928), Toby Keith (1961), and Tim Scott (1965). After her are Joan Didion (1934), Annie Potts (1952), Frank Jack Fletcher (1885), Elizabeth Bolden (1890), Bill Cobbs (1934), and John Kennedy Toole (1937).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Melissa Leo ranks 825. Before her are Bill Duke (1943), Jeffrey Hunter (1926), Liev Schreiber (1967), James Franco (1978), Laurie Holden (1969), and Jack Nance (1943). After her are Annie Potts (1952), Bill Cobbs (1934), Alfre Woodard (1952), Matthew Fox (1966), Mimsy Farmer (1945), and J. T. Walsh (1943).

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