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Tea Leoni Biography:
First earning fame as a witty, agile comic actress on TV, smart, leggy beauty Téa Leoni was poised for Hollywood movie stardom by the late '90s. Born Elizabeth Téa Pantaleoni and
raised in New York City, Leoni graduated from boarding school in Vermont and headed to Sarah Lawrence College to study psychology. After dropping out to travel for several
months, Leoni intended to finish college at Harvard. Though she had never planned on acting, Leoni auditioned on a dare for a planned TV remake of Charlie's Angels and was cast.
Though the 1988 writer's strike killed the series, Leoni opted to stay in Hollywood. After several years of modeling and TV commercials, Leoni made her film debut as the "Dream Girl"
in Blake Edwards' farce Switch (1991). A small part in A League of Their Own (1992) and starring roles in the short-lived Fox sitcom Flying Blind (1992) and the TV movie The Counterfeit
Contessa (1994) brought Leoni more attention. While she co-starred as the obligatory female-witness-in-peril in the blockbuster actioner Bad Boys (1995), Leoni's gift for acid wit and
goofy physical comedy turned her into a TV star that same year in the sitcom The Naked Truth. Despite a network change, The Naked Truth lasted three seasons; Leoni further
bolstered her comic reputation with her performance as a high-strung psychology student in David O. Russell's excellent screwball comedy Flirting With Disaster (1996). While The
Naked Truth mined TV laughs out of tabloids, Leoni's own personal life became paparazzi fodder when she married X-Files heartthrob David Duchovny in 1997. After taking a turn for
the serious as a reporter in the first 1998 asteroid blockbuster Deep Impact, Leoni took a break from acting to have a daughter with Duchovny in 1999. Leoni returned to movies in
2000 with a charming performance as Nicolas Cage's beloved in the syrupy dramedy The Family Man. Lucia Bozzola,
7/26/09 bikini photos of Tea Leoni, click here.
3/16/2010 Diet
Tea Leoni is a longtime Vegetarian and eats very healthy.
Exercise
Tea enjoys golf, hiking, walks, and is a avid runner. She runs 3 miles a day when she can.
Interview
by Paul Fischer in Los Angeles.
Tea Leoni is golf the only thing you do to stay in shape?I love hiking, and I can still walk out the door and run three miles. But I don’t like to get on a machine and exercise. I’m lucky
because I don’t look like someone who doesn’t work out. Of course, we’d all like a firmer butt or less flabby arms, but for me fitness has to be about fun.
Paul Fischer For Spanglish: How close to the exercise fitness fan are you to Deborah?Tea Leoni: I have always loathed working out. If you can’t make a sport out of it, I don’t want to
be there. I’ve been in a gym probably nine days of my life. I can’t stand that whole thing. I don’t even get it. You’re running, and you don’t go anywhere and there’s like a wall and this
TV, I can’t do that.
Paul Fischer: You don’t go jogging in your neighborhood?Tea Leoni: Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life. I worked out really hard to
do this and I felt that this was really important and I knew that comedically it would pay off. There’s, I wanted the running. It would not work for me if I didn’t look as angry and
desperate and driven as Deborah. You couldn’t see sinewy muscle on me, I wouldn’t buy it. That was very important to me. I can’t stand that in a movie when it’s a movie about an
Olympic athlete and you, please.
Paul Fischer: What about the yoga stuff?Tea Leoni: That yoga pose I worked very hard to find what would be a bizarre pose that’s potentially, maybe looks more difficult than it is but
what I liked about it, that pose, as much about strength, it’s a lot about balance and I thought perfect, because this is the most unbalanced women I’ve ever met so I wanted to try and
make her teeter slightly in this pose. The way that Jim shoots, we do several takes, more than several, and it can go on all day and I knew I would have to hold that thing for 2-3 days
so I really, I was really hot back then, I was really in shape.
First earning fame as a witty, agile comic actress on TV, smart, leggy beauty Téa Leoni was poised for Hollywood movie stardom by the late '90s. Born Elizabeth Téa Pantaleoni and
raised in New York City, Leoni graduated from boarding school in Vermont and headed to Sarah Lawrence College to study psychology. After dropping out to travel for several
months, Leoni intended to finish college at Harvard. Though she had never planned on acting, Leoni auditioned on a dare for a planned TV remake of Charlie's Angels and was cast.
Though the 1988 writer's strike killed the series, Leoni opted to stay in Hollywood. After several years of modeling and TV commercials, Leoni made her film debut as the "Dream Girl"
in Blake Edwards' farce Switch (1991). A small part in A League of Their Own (1992) and starring roles in the short-lived Fox sitcom Flying Blind (1992) and the TV movie The Counterfeit
Contessa (1994) brought Leoni more attention. While she co-starred as the obligatory female-witness-in-peril in the blockbuster actioner Bad Boys (1995), Leoni's gift for acid wit and
goofy physical comedy turned her into a TV star that same year in the sitcom The Naked Truth. Despite a network change, The Naked Truth lasted three seasons; Leoni further
bolstered her comic reputation with her performance as a high-strung psychology student in David O. Russell's excellent screwball comedy Flirting With Disaster (1996). While The
Naked Truth mined TV laughs out of tabloids, Leoni's own personal life became paparazzi fodder when she married X-Files heartthrob David Duchovny in 1997. After taking a turn for
the serious as a reporter in the first 1998 asteroid blockbuster Deep Impact, Leoni took a break from acting to have a daughter with Duchovny in 1999. Leoni returned to movies in
2000 with a charming performance as Nicolas Cage's beloved in the syrupy dramedy The Family Man. Lucia Bozzola,
7/26/09 bikini photos of Tea Leoni, click here.
3/16/2010 Diet
Tea Leoni is a longtime Vegetarian and eats very healthy.
Exercise
Tea enjoys golf, hiking, walks, and is a avid runner. She runs 3 miles a day when she can.
Interview
by Paul Fischer in Los Angeles.
Tea Leoni is golf the only thing you do to stay in shape?I love hiking, and I can still walk out the door and run three miles. But I don’t like to get on a machine and exercise. I’m lucky
because I don’t look like someone who doesn’t work out. Of course, we’d all like a firmer butt or less flabby arms, but for me fitness has to be about fun.
Paul Fischer For Spanglish: How close to the exercise fitness fan are you to Deborah?Tea Leoni: I have always loathed working out. If you can’t make a sport out of it, I don’t want to
be there. I’ve been in a gym probably nine days of my life. I can’t stand that whole thing. I don’t even get it. You’re running, and you don’t go anywhere and there’s like a wall and this
TV, I can’t do that.
Paul Fischer: You don’t go jogging in your neighborhood?Tea Leoni: Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life. I worked out really hard to
do this and I felt that this was really important and I knew that comedically it would pay off. There’s, I wanted the running. It would not work for me if I didn’t look as angry and
desperate and driven as Deborah. You couldn’t see sinewy muscle on me, I wouldn’t buy it. That was very important to me. I can’t stand that in a movie when it’s a movie about an
Olympic athlete and you, please.
Paul Fischer: What about the yoga stuff?Tea Leoni: That yoga pose I worked very hard to find what would be a bizarre pose that’s potentially, maybe looks more difficult than it is but
what I liked about it, that pose, as much about strength, it’s a lot about balance and I thought perfect, because this is the most unbalanced women I’ve ever met so I wanted to try and
make her teeter slightly in this pose. The way that Jim shoots, we do several takes, more than several, and it can go on all day and I knew I would have to hold that thing for 2-3 days
so I really, I was really hot back then, I was really in shape.
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