American actress, Melissa Chessington Leo has an estimated net worth of $7 million. After supporting roles in a handful of small movies and a brief stint on the cleaning soap opera All My Children, New York-born Melissa Leo gained prominence on the critically-acclaimed Barry Levinson-produced tv drama Homicide: Life on the Streets.
Melissa Leo started her profession working in tv and garnered rave opinions for her work on “Homicide: Life on the Street”. She moved into movie work within the early 2000s, and in 2011 she gained the Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in, “The Fighter”.
Born Melissa Chessington Leo on September 14, 1960 in Manhattan, New York, United States.