Téa Leoni (born February 25, 1966) is an American actress. Leoni was born Elizabeth Téa Pantaleoni 'teːɑ lɛ'oːniː in New York City to Anthony Pantaleoni, a corporate lawyer, and Emily (Patterson), a dietician. Leoni's mother is a native of Texas and her father is of Italian and Polish descent. Leoni's paternal grandmother, Helen "Helenka" Tradusa Adamowska (1901 - 1987), was a film and stage actress who was a member of a family of prominent musicians known as the Adamowski Trio.Leoni states in the October 27, 2006 Life magazine that she became a UNICEF goodwill ambassador for UNICEF partially because her paternal grandmother was the president of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF for 25 years.
She married her first husband, Neil Joseph Tardio, Jr., a television producer, on June 8, 1991, at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Hope, New Jersey. The couple divorced in 1995. She married her second husband, actor David Duchovny on May 6, 1997, after a nine week courtship. Their first child, daughter Madelaine West Duchovny, was born on April 24, 1999 in Southern California, and their second, son Kyd Miller Duchovny, was born on June 15, 2002 in Los Angeles, California. During a June 14, 2007 interview on The Tonight Show, she commented on her 10 year anniversary and how 10 years in Hollywood is like "fifty years in the real world". She also revealed that she and David got tattoos on their ring fingers to celebrate their tenth anniversary. Like her husband David Duchovny, she is a vegetarian. The family lives in Malibu, California.
An asteroid, 8299 Téaleoni, has been named after her.
