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Melissa Leo Signs With Gersh
'The Fighter' Oscar winner Melissa Leo Signs With Gersh
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). 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.
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