Tea Leoni
Tea Leoni was born in New York City, New York, United States on February 25th, 1966 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 58, Tea Leoni biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Elizabeth Téa Pantaleoni (born February 25, 1966), better known as Téa Leoni, is an American actress and producer. She appeared in the television sitcoms Flying Blind (1992–93) and The Naked Truth (1995–98).
In the 1995 action comedy film Bad Boys, she made her debut appearance.
Leoni appeared in films including Deep Impact (1998), The Family Man (2000), Jurassic Park III (2001), Spanglish (2004), and Fun with Dick and Jane (2005).
In 2014, she returned to television in the leading role in the CBS political drama series Madam Secretary's Madam Secretary.
Early life and family
Leoni was born in New York City on February 25, 1966. Emily Ann (née Patterson), a dietitian and nutritionist, and her father, Anthony Pantaleoni, was a corporate counsel with Fulbright & Jaworski. Her paternal grandfather was of Italian, English, and Irish descent; he was nephew of Italian economist and politician Maffeo Pantaleoni. Helenka Adamowska Pantaleoni, Leoni's paternal grandmother, was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, to Polish musicians Józef Adamowski and Antonina Szumowska-Adamowska. Leoni's mother is a native of Amarillo, Texas, and her niece is actor Hank Patterson.
Leoni grew up in Englewood, New Jersey, and New York City, and attended two private schools, Brearley School in Vermont, and The Putney School in Vermont. She attended Sarah Lawrence College but did not complete studies.
Susannah Foley, a boy from Vick, Louisiana, and Sumpter James Daniel, whose ancestors came from Ireland in the early 18th century, established a plantation in Fairfax County, seven miles from George Washington, were discovered on a 2017 episode of Finding Your Roots, hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr. Florry Elizabeth (née Roberts) and Virgil Pearson Patterson Patterson, her mother's adoptive parents, were among her adoptive parents.
Personal life
On June 8, 1991, Leoni married Neil Joseph Tardio, Jr., a television commercial producer, at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Hope, New Jersey. They divorced in 1995.
After an eight-week court battle, Leoni married actor David Duchovny on May 13, 1997. They have two children, daughter Madelaine West Duchovny (born April 13, 1999), and son Kyd Miller Duchovny (born June 15, 2002). Leoni and Duchovny were divorced in 2008; Duchovny received anti-sex therapy from August to October. The couple reconciled in 2009 but divorced in June 2011. In June 2014, Duchovny filed for divorce, but the couple had agreed to settlement terms by that time. Leoni, the Duchovny, has migrated to Riverside Drive in New York City's Upper West Side.
Leoni began dating her Madam Secretary co-star Tim Daly, another alumnus of The Putney School, in December 2014.
In 2001, Leoni was appointed a UNICEF goodwill ambassador. Helenka Pantaleoni, her paternal grandmother, was the president of the United States Fund for UNICEF for more than 25 years.
Téaleoni 8299, an Asteroid discovered by Eric Elst at La Silla in 1993, was named after Leoni.
Career
Leoni was cast as one of the actors of Angels 88, a modern interpretation of Charlie's Angels from 1970s. The show never aired due to production delays. Lisa DiNapoli was cast as Lisa DiNapoli in the NBC daytime soap opera Santa Barbara the following year. She made her film debut in 1991 with a small part in A League of Their Own (1992).
Leoni appeared in the Fox sitcom Flying Blind from 1992 to 1993. She appeared on Frasier, a Cheers spinoff, in February 1995 as Sam Malone's fiancée (played by Ted Danson). She landed the lead role in the ABC/NBC sitcom The Naked Truth later this year, playing Nora Wilde, a tabloid news journalist. The show ran from 1998 to 1998. Rachel Green was also on the hit comedy Friends but she later decided not to appear in The Naked Truth. Leoni was the female lead in the 1995 action comedy film Bad Boys, which was a box office hit, grossing over $141 million worldwide.
Leoni had a leading role in Deep Impact (1998), a big-budget disaster film about a comet hurtling toward Earth from television. Critics mixed about the film, but it was a hit at the box office, grossing $349 million worldwide. She appeared in two other big budget films: romantic comedy The Family Man (2000), co-starring Nicolas Cage, and science fiction film Jurassic Park III (2001) as William H. Macy's ex-wife. She appeared as a film studio executive in Hollywood Ending, directed by Woody Allen, and was instrumental in the Box Office bombing story People in Knowles in 2002. She appeared in the financially struggling comedy-drama Spanglish in 2004 as the wife of Adam Sandler's character. Leoni appeared in the comedy film Fun with Dick and Jane in 2005. The movie's grossing at $202 million at the box office world wide.
Leoni appeared in several small films in the late 2000s, including You Kill Me and Smell of Success. In the 2008 supernatural comedy-drama Ghost Town, she co-starred with Ricky Gervais. In 2011, she appeared in Tower Heist's heist comedy film. In 2011, she was also cast as leads in the HBO comedy pilot Spring/Fall; however, the pilot was not picked up. Elizabeth McCord appeared in the CBS political drama Madam Secretary, which ran from September 21, 2014 to December 8, 2019.