Travelling North Film Festival awarded the Best Actor award to Leo McKern. "Travelling North" grossed $1,464,000 at the box office in Australia, which is equivalent to $2,942,640 in 2009 dollars. Travelling North Travelling North is a 1987 film directed by Carl Schultz and starring Leo McKern, Julia Blake, and Graham Kennedy. Based on an original 1979 play of the same name by David Williamson, it is one of Williamson's favourite movies based on his works. An aged couple decide to move from Melbourne to north Queensland. The David Williamson play "Travelling North" premiered in 1979, the year that Williamson moved from Melbourne
Melissa Leo Leo lives in Stone Ridge, New York. In 1987, she had a son, John Matthew "Jack" Heard, with actor and former boyfriend 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." She reiterated these sentiments in a 2017 interview. Melissa Leo Melissa Chessington Leo (born September 14, 1960) is