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Trivia
Birth name: Elizabeth Téa Pantaleoni
Date of birth: 25 February 1966
Place of birth: New York, New York, USA
Nickname: Téa Leoni
Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m)
Spouse: David Duchovny (6 May 1997 - present) 2 children,
Neil Tardio (February 1992 - October 1995) (divorced).
Daughter, Madelaine West Duchovny born [24 April 1999]
Graduated from the Putney School in Putney, VT in 1984.
Her first name is pronounced "TAY-uh."
The name Tea means "goddess"
Auditioned for a "Charlie's Angels" (1976) remake role (as a
dare) and got the part. A writer's strike in Hollywood meant the series
was never made, but the pre-publicity was enough to get Tea noticed.
Her character in Deep Impact (1998) breaks the story on a comet which is
going to hit the Earth and her character on _"Naked Truth,
The" (1995/I)_ works for "The Comet".
Her paternal grandmother was silent film actress Helenka Adamowska.
Leoni means "lions" in Italian; her full name, Pantaleoni, is
quite close to the Italian word for "trousers" (pantaloni).
Gave birth to second child, 7lb. 10-oz. boy, Kyd Miller Duchovny, in Los
Angeles, 15 June 2002.
Her father suffered from skin cancer.
Planned on majoring in anthropology and/or psychology
Attended Sarah Lawrence College
Measurements: 32AA-21-34 (on "Flying Blind" (1992) - 1995)
(Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine).
Daughter of Emily and Anthony Pantaleoni
Has one brother named Thomas 'Tom' Pantaleoni
Was going to be one of the new Charlie's Angels in the proposed
"Angels '88", along with Claire Yarlett, but the series never
got off the ground.
Her grandmother, Helenka Pantaleoni, co-founded what would become the US
Fund for UNICEF in 1947 and served as its President for 25 years. Téa
herself has served as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF since 2001.
Calls her children: West and Miller. It is tradition in their family, to
use the middle names as a first name.
Went to Oahu to help search for her cousin, Tim Pantaleoni, in summer
1995. He mysteriously vanished while hiking and to this day has never
been found.
Her father is of Italian and Polish extraction, while her Southern-born
mother is of Anglo-Saxon ancestry.
She is a vegan.
Grand-niece of Hank Patterson. |
