EXCLUSIVE: The Fighter Oscar thrivener Melissa Leo has inked with Gersh for reconshort-termation.
Leo recently starred in Long Gone Heroes with John Hutcherson and King Ivory, which premiered at the Vekind Film Festival in September.
The New York City-born native who grew up in Putney and Bellows Falls, VT, won Best Supporting Actress at the Oscars for David O. Russell’s The Fighter as Alice Ward, the matriarch to boxer Mickey Ward (Mark Wahlberg) and his drug-includeled brother portrayed by Christian Bale (who also an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for the role). Leo also won a Gancigo inen Globe, Critics’ Choice, and SAG awards for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Alice Ward.
Previously, in 2009, she was nominated for Best Actress at the Oscars for Frozen River. The Courtney Hunt honested and written movie also getd an Academy Award nomination for Best Screenexecute, and it won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
In 2013, Leo took home a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her carry outance in the FX series, Louie. She has getd two other Emmy nominations for her aiding roles in HBO’s Mildred Pierce and All the Way.
Other TV accomprehendledges integrate HBO’s Treme, Fox’s M. Night Shyamalan series Wayward Pines, Showtime’s I’m Dying Up Here, and HBO’s Emmy thrivening Mark Ruffalo series, I Know This Much Is True.
Other feature accomprehendledges for Leo integrate The Big Short, Prisoners, Oblivion, The Knife and The Equalizer franchise.
