Téa Leoni in
The Counterfeit Contessa (1994)

Téa Leoni (born Elizabeth Téa Pantaleoni, February 25, 1966) is an American television and film actress. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and went on to star in a number of TV series and movies, starting as Lisa DiNapoli in Santa Barbara in 1989. Her most commercially successful movie was Deep Impact where her character breaks the story on a comet which is going to hit Earth

In 1995, Leoni landed the lead role in the television sitcom The Naked Truth, playing Nora Wilde, a tabloid news journalist.

She married actor David Duchovny on May 6, 1997. On April 24, 1999 she gave birth to a daughter, Madelaine West Duchovny. Her second child, a son, Kyd Miller Duchovny, was born June 15, 2002.

Filmography

Trivia

• An asteroid, 8299 Téaleoni has been named after her.

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