On February 28, 1966, in New York City, Tea Leoni was born to Anthony and Emily Ann Pantaleoni. Her mother is a nutritionist and dietician, and her father practices law. Tea Leoni has a brother, Thomas, thus she is not an only kid.
Leoni hails from a mixed-heritage family of intellectuals; her grandmother is Polish, while her grandfather is of Italian, English, and Irish ancestry. She was educated at Vermont’s Putney School after attending Brearley Schools in New York and Englewood, New Jersey, respectively, as a child. She attended Sarah Lawrence College to complete her education after high school, but she left after her first year to pursue an acting career.
Tea Leoni’s showbiz career began in 1988 when he auditioned for a television show. The Angels put up 88 points. After an audition, she was cast as the show’s lead, but the show never aired owing to production delays. The next year, she was cast as Lisa DiNapoli on the NBC soap opera Santa Barbara, where she starred in six episodes.
She made her cinematic debut in 1991, playing a supporting role. next, she starred in the sports comedy film “A League of Their Own” the next year. Her big break came in 1995 when she played in the comic action picture Bad Boys alongside Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. The film was a major blockbuster, and it catapulted Tea Leoni into a new phase of her acting career, establishing her as a rising star in the business.
Leoni is not married at the moment, but she has been dating Hollywood actor and producer James Timothy Daly, better known as Tim Daly, since 2014. Daly also appears beside his secretary.
