Name: Téa Leoni
Birth Name: Elizabeth Téa Pantaleoni
Birthdate: Feb. 25, 1966
Birthplace: New York, N.Y.
1-MINUTE RESUME FOR TÉA LEONI
Despite her privileged and pedigreed upbringing in New York City,
attending Sarah Lawrence College with plans to major in anthropology or
psychology, Leoni is one of those rare women who can swear and swig
scotch yet still come off as classy. Often compared to screwball comic
actresses like Lucille Ball and Carole Lombard, Téa Leoni's distinctive
combination of brains, beauty and talent for slapstick have gotten her
cast in everything from her own TV sitcom (
The Naked Truth) to blockbuster actioners (
Jurassic Park III) to big-budget comedies (
Fun With Dick and Jane).
She's also one-half of arguably Hollywood's smartest couple as the wife
of David Duchovny, who holds degrees from Yale and Princeton.
5 Things:
1. She loves golf.
2. Her beloved grandmother was a silent film actress who later helped found UNICEF.
3. Knowing his wife's dream was to be a singer, David Duchovny
rented a recording studio for Téa and hired 10 musicians for her
birthday in 2001.
4. She's been a UNICEF ambassador since 2001 and is heavily involved in promoting HIV/AIDS awareness.
5. She gave her Family Man director Brett Ratner a parting gift of pornographic books from the 1800s and a Porky's DVD.
Quote:
"Oh, to be funny — it's a high to be it for a moment, and that laughter
is great. There was that wonderful Hollywood heat — when that
particular Hollywood sun finds you for 15 minutes every now and then
throughout your lifetime. And I thought, well, hell … I guess they
don't think I've got a good Meryl Streep going. So I'll do this kooky
stuff."
—
Allure, Nov. 2000
Family:
Husband: David Duchovny, actor; met at an audition for The Tonight Show; married May 6, 1997 to present
Daughter: Madelaine West, born April 24, 1999
Son: Kyd Miller, born June 15, 2002
Husband: Neil Tardio; married Feb. 1992, divorced Oct. 1995
FILMS
You Kill Me - (2007) - Actor
House of D - (2005) - Actor
Fun With Dick and Jane - (2005) - Actor
Spanglish - (2004) - Actor
People I Know - (2003) - Actor
Jurassic Park/Jurassic Park III - (2003) - Actor
Hollywood Ending - (2002) - Actor
Jurassic Park III - (2001) - Actor
The Family Man - (2000) - Actor
Life in the Fast Lane - (1999) - Actor
Deep Impact - (1998) - Actor
Playing by Heart/Flirting With Disaster - (1998) - Actor
Flirting With Disaster - (1996) - Actor
Bad Boys - (1995) - Actor
A League of Their Own - (1992) - Actor
Switch - (1991) - Actor
