Melissa Leo

Full filmography

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