Melissa Leo
Melissa Leo
Melissa Chessington Leois an American actress. After appearing on several television shows and films in the 1980s, her breakthrough role came in 1993 as Det. Sgt. Kay Howard on the television series Homicide: Life on the Street for the show's first five seasons. She had also previously been a regular on the television shows All My Children and The Young Riders...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth14 September 1960
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.
The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.
I think this notion of acting and glamour is getting in everybody's way.
I was really not familiar at all with Edward Snowden. I like to get that right out of the way and really learned most of what I know from Oliver's [Stones] script.
I think the funny thing about acting for me - and I hold it in a very holy, spiritual way - not to be overly fundamentalist about it, but it's that important to me - is that it is an ancient healing art.
Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.
That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it.
I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.
I do get a fair amount of scripts; I got 'Frozen River' kinda just that way. I have a hard time turning my back on anybody who says they have something for me.