Who is Elizabeth Téa Pantaleoni? The entertainment and acting world knows Tea Leoni as an American actress. She has starred in a wide range of films including
Jurassic Park III,
The Family Man,
Deep Impact,
Fun with Dick and Jane,
Spanglish,
Bad Boys and
Ghost Town.
Early life
Leoni was born February 25, 1966 in New York City, the daughter of Emily Ann (née Patterson), a dietician and nutritionist, and Anthony Pantaleoni, a corporate lawyer of the firm
Fulbright & Jaworski.
[1][2] Leoni’s mother is a native of Texas, and her father is of Italian, English and Polish descent.
[3][4][5] Leoni attended two private schools,
Brearley School and
The Putney School. She attended but did not complete studies at
Sarah Lawrence College.
Leoni’s paternal grandmother,
Helenka Adamowska Pantaleoni (1900–87), was a film and stage actress who was a daughter of musicians Józef Adamowski and Antonina Szumowska-Adamowska, who, with Józef's brother
Tymoteusz Adamowski, were the Adamowski Trio.
[5][6] Leoni's paternal great-grandfather was the brother of Italian economist and politician
Maffeo Pantaleoni.
[5]
Career
In 1988, Leoni was cast as one of the stars of
Angels 88, an updated version of the 1970s show
Charlie's Angels. In May 1988,
Life magazine ran a story on the casting of this new series.
After production delays, the show never aired. The following year, Leoni starred as "Lisa DiNapoli" in the TV daytime drama
Santa Barbara.
Leoni went on to appear in the women's baseball film
A League of Their Own in 1992. Later in the year, she starred with
Corey Parker in the single-season
Fox sitcom
Flying Blind, playing a beautiful, eccentric, downtown-
Manhattan libertine who falls in love with an ordinary
Long Island college graduate. In February 1995, she appeared in the sitcom
Frasier as the fiance of
Sam Malone, portrayed by guest star
Ted Danson, in a crossover from
Cheers.
Leoni also landed the lead role in the sitcom
The Naked Truth, playing Nora Wilde, a
tabloid news journalist. The show ran through 1998. In the 2000 episode of the
The X-Files "
Hollywood A.D." (season 7, episode 19), Leoni played an actress portraying
Dana Scully in a movie under her own name.
Leoni's film work includes a lead role in
Deep Impact, a big-budget disaster film about a comet menacing Earth; and
Jurassic Park III,
The Family Man,
Bad Boys and
You Kill Me. She starred as a film studio executive in
Hollywood Ending for director
Woody Allen, portraying his ex-wife, and in
Spanglish as the emotionally unstable wife of
Adam Sandler.
Leoni ranked #79 on the
FHM "100 Sexiest Women of 2000" list.
[7]
Personal life
Leoni stated in the October 27, 2006 issue of
Life magazine that she became a Goodwill ambassador for
UNICEF partially because her paternal grandmother was the president of the
U.S. Fund for UNICEF for 25 years.
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Leoni married her first husband, Neil Joseph Tardio, Jr., a television commercial producer, on June 8, 1991, at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in
Hope, New Jersey.
[8]
Leoni 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. Their second child, a son, Kyd Miller Duchovny, was born on June 15, 2002 in Los Angeles
.
On October 15, 2008, Leoni and Duchovny confirmed that they had been separated "for several months." The media attributed the separation to Duchovny's much publicized sexual addiction.
[9] The couple have since publicly reconciled and are seen frequently together as a family.
[10]
Filmography
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Who is Amber Rose? The entertainment and modeling world knows Amber Rose as an American model. She is best known for her high-profile relationships with rappers Kanye West and Wiz Khalifa. Rose posed for a Louis Vuitton print advertisement featuring Lamon Coleman's new line of sneakers.[1] On July 11, 2009 it was announced that Rose had signed with Ford Models.
Rose was born October 21, 1982. Amber Rose is of Italian and Cape Verdian descent, and is known for her distinctive appearance, which includes nearly-shaved, dyed blonde hair on her head, which she claims is the only area where she does not remove her body hair completely. In September 2009, Rose announced plans to launch her own line of eyewear. She walked the runway at New York Fashion Week for "Celestino", and she was unveiled as the new face of "Boadicea the Victorious" perfume. She has said that being with Wiz Khalifa was the best decision she made after going through a rough relationship with ex-boyfriend Kanye West.
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