Tea Leoni's Birthday

The Captivating Tea Leoni

An accomplished actress, a loving mother and a devoted wife; this is Tea Leoni. Her name is pronounced as “TAY-uh” and means goddess in Greek. She lives her namesake with much aplomb and character. Tea Leoni even has her own asteroid, the 8299 Tealeoni named after her. Without a doubt, this woman has surely captivated millions with her beauty in the inside as well as outside.

The Goddess:

Tea Leoni was born Elizabeth Tea Pantaleoni on February 25, 1966 in New York City to proud parents Anthony Pantaleoni and Emily Patterson. She has a brother named Thomas Pantaleoni, whom she fondly calls Tom. Her paternal grandmother, Helenka Tradusa Adamowska was a stage and silent film actress deeply devoted to helping the unfortunate ones in the world. Indeed, Helenka was the co-founder of what was to become the US Fund for UNICEF in 1947 and was its President for more than 20 years. Deeply inspired by her grandmother, Tea herself serves as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF since 2001. She is also the grand-niece of Hank Patterson, another esteemed actor from the 1930’s to the 1970’s.

Tea Leoni is currently married to David Duchovny since May 6, 1997 and has two children named Madelaine West and Kyd Miller Duchovny. West was born on April 24, 1999 and Miller was born on June 15, 2002. She calls her children by their second names because of the tradition in her family to use the second names as their first names.

Tea’s Rise to Stardom:

Tea Leoni is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and planned on majoring in Anthropology and Psychology. Her real love however is the film industry and she went on to pursue her acting career. Beautiful beyond doubt, this captivating woman first got into the limelight when she auditioned for a Charlie’s Angels remake in the year 1976. Unfortunately, the writers of the series had a strike and the series never aired. This was enough to gain her publicity though.

Tea went on to star in dozens of TV series and movies. Her first break was her role in the soap opera Santa Barbara in 1989, where she starred as Lisa DiNapoli. The role propelled her to star in a 1993 sitcom called Flying Blind from Fox Network. In 1995, she starred in another TV sitcom called The Naked Truth.

She then moved to making movies and had her first break in 1995, when she starred alongside Martin Lawrence and Will Smith in the film Bad Boys. She also landed a role in the hugely commercialized movie called Deep Impact, where her character announces that a comet is going to hit the earth. She also starred in Spanglish, a movie with Adam Sandler, Paz Vega and Cloris Leachman.

Tea’s career is truly on the rise. She is also a model for DiMODOLO Jewelry and donates her fee to the US Fund of UNICEF. She even designs UNICEF pendants for the company.