Birth Name: Elizabeth Téa Pantaleoni
Date of birth (location): 25 February 1966
Significant Others
Companion: Chris Thompson. executive producer of "The Naked Truth";
born c. 1952; together from August 1995 until early 1996; he was
still married at time of their relationship.
Milestones
1988 Cast in "Charlie's Angels" remake "Angels '88"; pilot never
aired
1991 Feature film debut in "Switch"
1992 TV series debut on Fox sitcom "Flying Blind"
1995 Cast as lead in sitcom "The Naked Truth"
1995 First leading role in features "Bad Boys"
1996 Co-starred with Ben Stiller in "Flirting With Disaster"
1998 Executive produced and acted in the independent film "There's
No Fish Food in Heaven"
1998 Played a TV newsreporter who uncovers the truth about an
impending disaster in "Deep Impact"
2000 Cast opposite Nicolas Cage in the fantasy "The Family
Man"
2001 Appeared in "Jurassic Park 3"
2002 Cast opposite Woody Allen in "Hollywood Ending"
2003 Co-starred in the drama "People I Know"
2004 Starred opposite Adam Sandler in James L. Brooks'
"Spanglish"
2005 Co-starred in "House of D," a film written and directed by her
husband David Duchovny
2005 Co-starred with Jim Carrey in "Fun with Dick and Jane" an
update of the 1977 comedy, where a married couple turn to robbery
to pay the bills
Born and raised in NYC
Dropped out of college to travel
Had recurring role on the NBC soap "Santa Barbara"
First earning fame as a witty, agile comic actress on TV, smart,
leggy beauty Téa Leoni was poised for Hollywood movie stardom by
the late '90s. Born Elizabeth Téa Pantaleoni and raised in New York
City, Leoni graduated from boarding school in Vermont and headed to
Sarah Lawrence College to study psychology. After dropping out to
travel for several months, Leoni intended to finish college at
Harvard. Though she had never planned on acting, Leoni auditioned
on a dare for a planned TV remake of Charlie's Angels and was cast.
Though the 1988 writer's strike killed the series, Leoni opted to
stay in Hollywood. After several years of modeling and TV
commercials, Leoni made her film debut as the "Dream Girl" in Blake
Edwards' farce Switch (1991). A small part in A League of Their Own
(1992) and starring roles in the short-lived Fox sitcom Flying
Blind (1992) and the TV movie The Counterfeit Contessa (1994)
brought Leoni more attention.
While she co-starred as the obligatory female-witness-in-peril in
the blockbuster actioner Bad Boys (1995), Leoni's gift for acid wit
and goofy physical comedy turned her into a TV star that same year
in the sitcom The Naked Truth. Despite a network change, The Naked
Truth lasted three seasons; Leoni further bolstered her comic
reputation with her performance as a high-strung psychology student
in David O. Russell's excellent screwball comedy Flirting With
Disaster (1996). While The Naked Truth mined TV laughs out of
tabloids, Leoni's own personal life became paparazzi fodder when
she married X-Files heartthrob David Duchovny in 1997. After taking
a turn for the serious as a reporter in the first 1998 asteroid
blockbuster Deep Impact, Leoni took a break from acting to have a
daughter with Duchovny in 1999. Leoni returned to movies in 2000
with a charming performance as Nicolas Cage's beloved in the syrupy
dramedy The Family Man.
Téa has a daughter Madelaine West Duchovny born on April 24, 1999
and a son Kyd Miller Duchovny born on June 15, 2002.
Her grandmother was one of the founders of UNICEF and her paternal
grandmother was silent film actress Helenka Adamowska.
Just watched "The Family Man", she look
so gorgeous in the movie. This thread is delicated to her.
http://www.sgforums.com/?action=thread_display&thread_id=180967
