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Elizabeth Téa Pantaleoni born February 25, 1966, better known by her stage name Téa Leoni, is 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. Leoni was born in New York City. Her mother, Emily Ann (née Patterson), was a dietician and nutritionist, and her father, Anthony Pantaleoni, was a corporate lawyer of the firm Fulbright & Jaworski. Leoni's paternal grandfather was of Italian and English descent; he was a nephew of Italian economist and politician Maffeo Pantaleoni. Leoni's paternal grandmother, Polish-American Helenka Adamowska Pantaleoni, a relative of Ignacy Jan Paderewski, was a film and stage actress who was a daughter of musicians Józef Adamowski and Antonina Szumowska-Adamowska; with Józef's brother Timothee Adamowski, they were the Adamowski Trio. Leoni's mother is a native of Texas, and was the niece of actor Hank Patterson. Leoni attended two private schools, Brearley School and The Putney School. She attended but did not complete studies at Sarah Lawrence College. During her sophomore year Leoni was in a rock climbing accident in Colorado. She fell down a gorge while climbing with friends. The impact caused her to dislocate and fracture her jaw under the right interior mandible and caused extensive facial lacerations. Following the wiring shut of her jaw and extensive reconstructive surgery, Leoni was able to function and speak somewhat normally. She often credits this accident with the unique jaw shape and facial features she has come to be known for. 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 an 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. Leoni stated in the October 27, 2006 issue of Life magazine that she became a Goodwill ambassador for UNICEF partially because Helenka Pantaleoni, her paternal grandmother, was the president of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF for 25 years. 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. Leoni married her second husband, actor David Duchovny, on May 6, 1997, after a nine-week courtship.[citation needed] They have a daughter born in 1999[11] and son born in 2002. 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. The couple have since publicly reconciled and are seen frequently together as a family. On June 29, 2011, CNN reported that Leoni and Duchovny had once again split. EVEN in Hollywood, where mendacity springs eternal, a talent for lying is not something usually found on one's résumé. But Téa Leoni says that lying in one form or another has been responsible for all she has accomplished as an actress and has elevated her now to the enviable position of starring with Woody Allen in his latest comedy, "Hollywood Ending." "I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child," Ms. Leoni says, remembering a privileged youth spent on Park Avenue in New York that led indirectly to a life in show business. "They were seamless, seamless lies. Not harmful but colorful. And I continued to lie all through high school and really polished that craft. And then a healthy dose of psychotherapy told me why I was doing it but couldn't tell me what to do with this talent." The why remains private, but the what is now part of the public record, containing Ms. Leoni's memorable performances in the films "Flirting With Disaster," "Family Man," "Bad Boys" and "Deep Impact." "I'm sure there are actors who might slam me off of their respect chart because they believe in this grand idea that, `No, it's the opposite — it's the truth, by God,' blah, blah, blah. Well, this is my approach, and it works just fine." Ms. Leoni's saucy, irreverent personality, combined with her piercing blue eyes and athletic build, have made her a siren to be reckoned with — not necessarily a favored type in Hollywood. She remembers when she first went on auditions here ("hundreds of them"), she was told she was "too edgy, too tough, too tomboy, too strong, very New York." And proud of it. Even after 14 years in Los Angeles, she says, "I'm a New Yorker living in L.A." In "Hollywood Ending," opening on Friday, Ms. Leoni plays a studio executive who, against everyone's better judgment, hires her ex-husband, a famously neurotic and unreliable Oscar-winning auteur (played by Mr. Allen), to direct a big budget gangster picture set in New York. After shooting begins, the director more than lives up to his reputation for dysfunction, and she must choose between protecting him or protecting the studio headed by her profit-hungry fiancée (Treat Williams). "There are several things that happen to you on your way through this business that are like little notches on your bedpost," Ms. Leoni, 36, says over lunch at a small Italian restaurant in Santa Monica. "One of them was getting into the New York Times crossword puzzle, and another is to be able to say that I've been one of Woody Allen's leading ladies."
One. Tea Leoni, widescreen, wallpaper, photo, gallery, Tower Heist, The Smell of Success, Ghost Town, You Kill Me, actress, model, movie, girl, woman, hot, sexy, beautiful, image, picture.
Elizabeth Téa Pantaleoni born February 25, 1966, better known by her stage name Téa Leoni, is 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. Leoni was born in New York City. Her mother, Emily Ann (née Patterson), was a dietician and nutritionist, and her father, Anthony Pantaleoni, was a corporate lawyer of the firm Fulbright & Jaworski. Leoni's paternal grandfather was of Italian and English descent; he was a nephew of Italian economist and politician Maffeo Pantaleoni. Leoni's paternal grandmother, Polish-American Helenka Adamowska Pantaleoni, a relative of Ignacy Jan Paderewski, was a film and stage actress who was a daughter of musicians Józef Adamowski and Antonina Szumowska-Adamowska; with Józef's brother Timothee Adamowski, they were the Adamowski Trio. Leoni's mother is a native of Texas, and was the niece of actor Hank Patterson. Leoni attended two private schools, Brearley School and The Putney School. She attended but did not complete studies at Sarah Lawrence College. During her sophomore year Leoni was in a rock climbing accident in Colorado. She fell down a gorge while climbing with friends. The impact caused her to dislocate and fracture her jaw under the right interior mandible and caused extensive facial lacerations. Following the wiring shut of her jaw and extensive reconstructive surgery, Leoni was able to function and speak somewhat normally. She often credits this accident with the unique jaw shape and facial features she has come to be known for. 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 an 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. Leoni stated in the October 27, 2006 issue of Life magazine that she became a Goodwill ambassador for UNICEF partially because Helenka Pantaleoni, her paternal grandmother, was the president of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF for 25 years. 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. Leoni married her second husband, actor David Duchovny, on May 6, 1997, after a nine-week courtship.[citation needed] They have a daughter born in 1999[11] and son born in 2002. 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. The couple have since publicly reconciled and are seen frequently together as a family. On June 29, 2011, CNN reported that Leoni and Duchovny had once again split. EVEN in Hollywood, where mendacity springs eternal, a talent for lying is not something usually found on one's résumé. But Téa Leoni says that lying in one form or another has been responsible for all she has accomplished as an actress and has elevated her now to the enviable position of starring with Woody Allen in his latest comedy, "Hollywood Ending." "I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child," Ms. Leoni says, remembering a privileged youth spent on Park Avenue in New York that led indirectly to a life in show business. "They were seamless, seamless lies. Not harmful but colorful. And I continued to lie all through high school and really polished that craft. And then a healthy dose of psychotherapy told me why I was doing it but couldn't tell me what to do with this talent." The why remains private, but the what is now part of the public record, containing Ms. Leoni's memorable performances in the films "Flirting With Disaster," "Family Man," "Bad Boys" and "Deep Impact." "I'm sure there are actors who might slam me off of their respect chart because they believe in this grand idea that, `No, it's the opposite — it's the truth, by God,' blah, blah, blah. Well, this is my approach, and it works just fine." Ms. Leoni's saucy, irreverent personality, combined with her piercing blue eyes and athletic build, have made her a siren to be reckoned with — not necessarily a favored type in Hollywood. She remembers when she first went on auditions here ("hundreds of them"), she was told she was "too edgy, too tough, too tomboy, too strong, very New York." And proud of it. Even after 14 years in Los Angeles, she says, "I'm a New Yorker living in L.A." In "Hollywood Ending," opening on Friday, Ms. Leoni plays a studio executive who, against everyone's better judgment, hires her ex-husband, a famously neurotic and unreliable Oscar-winning auteur (played by Mr. Allen), to direct a big budget gangster picture set in New York. After shooting begins, the director more than lives up to his reputation for dysfunction, and she must choose between protecting him or protecting the studio headed by her profit-hungry fiancée (Treat Williams). "There are several things that happen to you on your way through this business that are like little notches on your bedpost," Ms. Leoni, 36, says over lunch at a small Italian restaurant in Santa Monica. "One of them was getting into the New York Times crossword puzzle, and another is to be able to say that I've been one of Woody Allen's leading ladies."
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