Post your questions for Melissa Liu | film

It’s been a remarkable career for Melissa Leo, who has earned an enviable reputation for portraying complex, tough, and often unconventional women across more than 100 on-screen roles. We count her most recent work, playing a detective in the psychological drama The Knife, as her 102nd.

In the past, Liu successfully played the role of Linda Warner in the American series All My Children in 1984, receiving an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Younger Actress. Since then, she’s starred in numerous TV shows, from Miami Vice to Law & Order, The L Word, the HBO drama Treme, and the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce with Kate Winslet and Guy Pearce. She even won an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her guest spot on Louie.

Her appearances on the big screen led to her receiving two Academy Awards. She was nominated for Best Actress for her standalone role as a desperate human trafficker in the 2008 crime drama Frozen River, then won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her portrayal of Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg’s domineering mother in 2010’s The Fighter. Other notable films include the 2003 crime thriller 21 Grams with Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, and Benicio del Toro; the 2013 thriller Prisoners with Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal; 2014’s The Equalizer with Denzel Washington and Chloë Grace Moretz; and as the Secretary of Defense hostage in the 2013 action-thriller Olympus Has Fallen and 2016’s London Has Fallen. Most recently, she starred in the 2024 crime comedy The Clean Up Crew with Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Antonio Banderas and the 2024 action-thriller Long Gone Heroes with Frank Grillo and Andy Garcia.

So please think of your favorite Melissa Leo moment to ask her about. And she sure has a lot of favorite Melissa Leo moments to answer for. Please submit your questions by 6pm on Tuesday 13 January, and we will print your answers in Film & Music magazine on 16 January.