EXCLUSIVE: The Fighter Oscar winner Melissa Leo has inked with Gersh for representation.
Leo recently starred in Long Gone Heroes with John Hutcherson and King Ivory, which premiered at the Venice 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-addled brother portrayed by Christian Bale (who also an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for the role). Leo also won a Golden 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 directed and written movie also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay, 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 performance in the FX series, Louie. She has received two other Emmy nominations for her supporting roles in HBO’s Mildred Pierce and All the Way.
Other TV credits include HBO’s Treme, Fox’s M. Night Shyamalan series Wayward Pines, Showtime’s I’m Dying Up Here, and HBO’s Emmy winning Mark Ruffalo series, I Know This Much Is True.
Other feature credits for Leo include The Big Short, Prisoners, Oblivion, The Knife and The Equalizer franchise.