Melissa Chessington Leo was born on September 14, 1960, and 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 a detective and later sergeant Kay Howard on the television series Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–1997).
In 2013, she won a Primetime Emmy Award for her guest role on the television series Louie. She starred in the 2015 Fox event series Wayward Pines as Nurse Pam. She then starred in the 2017 Netflix film The Most Hated Woman in America as American Atheists founder Madalyn Murray O’Hair.
Melissa Leo’s children: Does Melissa Leo have children?
Melissa Leo is single, though, in 1986, she had an affair with John Heard, an American actor with whom she had a son, John Matthew Leo, in 1987.
The couple split after a three-year relationship; the parting was bitter with a court battle for the son’s custody, which was ultimately given to Melissa in 1994.
She adopted another child, Adam Leo. She now lives in Stone Ridge, New York with both her sons.
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