Melissa Chessington Leo 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).
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In 1987, she had a son, John Matthew “Jack” Heard, with her former boyfriend, actor John Heard. She considers director Adam Davenport a “son of sorts. Leo publicly rejected the label of feminist in statements made during a 2012 interview with Salon, “I don’t think of myself as a feminist at all. As soon as we start labeling and categorizing ourselves and others, that’s going to shut down the world. I would never say that.
