Television
Melissa Leo is set to track down serial killers in her latest project. The “I’m Dying Up Here” alumna has played characters on both sides of the law, including her Oscar-nominated...
Awards
French auteur Agnès Varda, “House of Cards” star and director Robin Wright, and Oscar-winning actress Melissa Leo are all set to receive honors at upcoming fests. Varda and Wright will...
News
Melissa Leo has joined the cast of Showtime’s newly greenlit "I’m Dying Up Here," an upcoming dark comedy about stand-up in the ’70s. Leo will play a...
Writer-director Margaret Betts will make her narrative-feature debut with “Novitiate,” a coming-of-age drama that takes place in a convent during the early ’60s. Starring Margaret Qualley with...
Melissa Leo is coming to Netflix. The Oscar winning actress, who can currently be seen on Fox’s “Wayward Pines,” will play Madalyn Murray O’Hair in the streaming service’s upcoming “The...
Festivals, News
Actress Melissa Leo has already proven her awesomeness in The Fighter, Frozen River, and one very special, very scary episode of Louie. (If you’ve seen it, you definitely know which one I’m...
Oscar nominations close tomorrow (there has been trouble with the on-line voting) and one woman hoping to make the cut is Ann Dowd who has already received accolades for her performance in the creepy...
I find Melissa Leo to be one of the most interesting actors around. Two years ago she got a lot of shit for creating her own “For Your Consideration” ads for her role in The Fighter when she...
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