Tea
Leoni (born February 25, 1966) is an American actress. She is perhaps
best known
for her roles in Jurassic Park III, The Family Man, Deep Impact,
and Fun with Dick and Jane.
Tea Leoni attended Brearley School and The Putney
School. She attended but did not complete studies at Sarah Lawrence
College. In 1988 she
was cast as one of the four new angels in Angels 89, 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 series Santa Barbara.
She went on to appear in the film A League of Their
Own (1992), and later that year 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 played a guest role in an episode
of the sitcom Frasier, playing the fiance of Sam Malone, portrayed
by guest star Ted Danson, in a crossover from Cheers. That same year,
Leoni landed the lead role in the sitcom The Naked Truth, playing
Nora Wilde, a tabloid news journalist. The show ran through 1998.
Her films include Bad Boys (1995), Deep Impact, The Family Man, Jurassic
Park III, Hollywood Ending, and Spanglish.
Leoni ranked #79 on the FHM "100 Sexiest Women of 2000" list.
Tea Leoni states 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. 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. The couple divorced in 1995. She 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, and their
second, son Kyd Miller Duchovny, was born on June 15, 2002, in Los
Angeles, California The family lives in Malibu, California. On Wednesday,
October 15, 2008, Leoni and Duchovny confirmed that they have been
separated for several months.
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Anna Paquin
Actress
It was in New Zealand in 1991 that
Anna Paquin became an actress by chance. Director Jane
Campion was looking for a little girl to play a key role
in The Piano, set to film in New Zealand, and a newspaper
advertisement was run announcing an open audition.
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Claire
Danes Movie Actress
When she is not working, Claire Danes likes
spending time on her school studies, especially the humanities and science.
She tries to keep up her interest in dance, and wants to continue with
her new enthusiasm for surfing while she's living in Los Angeles.
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Cobie
Smulders Television Actress
As a child Cobie Smulders wanted to be either a doctor or a marine biologist
but started to gain an interest in acting in high school, appearing in
several school productions. Discovered by a modelling agency in her teens,
she started to model internationally, including in locations such as Paris,
Japan, Milan, Greece, and Germany.
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Courtney
Thorne Smith TV Actress
Courtney Thorne Smith first appeared as Stacy Hamilton on Fast Times, the
television series spin-off of the successful teen movie Fast Times at Ridgemont
High.
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Jennifer
Aniston Movie and Television Actress
In 2000, after a widely publicized
battle with NBC, Aniston and her fellow cast members negotiated
a salary of $750,000 per episode. The show won its first
Emmy for its 8th season in 2002. That same year, Aniston
received a Best Actress Emmy for her role as Rachel. Jennifer
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Eva Mendes
Model and Actress
Eve Mendes attended California State
University, Northridge and majored in marketing. Her debut
in acting came because she needed a little extra spending
money and appeared as an extra on various films. One day
she caught the eye of an agent who convinced her to pursue
acting more steadily. Eva
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Movie
Actress Keira Knightley
She was born in Teddington, south-west
London. Her name would become Keira as her Hollywood career
took off, the change shamelessly breaking the golden rule
of "I before E except after C" but making the
name more easily pronounceable on a worldwide basis. Keira
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