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Tea Leoni

Tea Leoni
Tea Leoni (or Elizabeth Téa Pantaleoni) was born on the 25th February 1966 in New York City in New York.
Tea' first appearance was in Angels 89, an updated version of the 1970s hit show - Charlie's Angels and as "Lisa DiNapoli" in the TV series Santa Barbara.
She has also appeared in Switch as Connie alongside Ellen Barkin, Bruce Payne, Jimmy Smits, JoBeth Williams and Lorraine Bracco, A League Of Their Own as Racine with Tom Hanks, Geena Davis and Madonna, Wyatt Earp as Sally opposite Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid and Gene Hackman and in Counterfeit Contessa as Gina Leonarda Nardino with D.W. Moffett.
Tea has had roles including Bad Boys as Julie Mott alongside Martin Lawrence and Will Smith, Flirting With Disaster as Tina Kalb opposite Ben Stiller and Patricia Arquette, There's No Fish Food in Heaven as Landeene with Patrick Dempsey, Noah Taylor and Fairuza Balk and in Deep Impact as Jenny Lerner with Robert Duvall and Vanessa Redgrave.
Another role of Tea's was in The Family Man as Kate Reynolds alongside Nicolas Cage and Don Cheadle, and also appearing in Jurassic Park 3 as Amanda Kirby with Sam Neill, William H. Macy, Laura Dern and Alessandro Nivola.
She has also starred in People I Know as Jilli Hopper with Ryan O'Neal, Al Pacino and Kim Basinger.
Other roles include Hollywood Ending as Ellie with Woody Allen, George Hamilton and Debra Messing, Spanglish as Deborah Clasky alongside Adam Sandler and Paz Vega and in Fun With Dick And Jane as Jane Harper opposite Jim Carrey, Alec Baldwin and Gloria Garayua.
Tea has also appeared in House of D as Mrs. Warshaw opposite David Duchovny,
Anton Yelchin and Robin Williams, You Kill Me as Laurel Pearson with Dennis Farina and Ben Kingsley and Ghost Town as Gwen alongside Ricky Gervais and Greg Kinnear.
Another role is in Manure as Rosemary Rose with Billy Bob Thornton, Ed Helms and Kyle MacLachlan and she also appeared in The Naked Truth also known as Wilde Again as Nora Wilde alongside George Segal, Mary Tyler Moore, Tom Verica and Darryl Sivad.
Tea has also been in Frasier as Sheila in the episode called The Show Where Sam Shows Up opposite Kelsey Grammer, Jane Leeves and David Hyde Pierce and in Flying Blind as Alicia with Corey Parker, Robert Bauer, Clea Lewis, Marcus Giamatti and Michael Tucci.













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Tea Leoni - what members say


  • The Family Man
  • The Family Man review by A customer from Manchester
    Rated - 4.0 stars Enjoyable Film 6 April 2004
    ...personally wouldn't class it as a comedy. Has a good moral base to it. Cage & Tea Leoni excellently cast, certainly worth watching ...   Read customer review
  • Jurassic Park 3
  • Jurassic Park 3 review by williamsgwynfa from gwaenysgor in flintshire
    Rated - 5.0 stars superb.................. 4 June 2007
    ...this film is superb. it stars Sam Neill, Tea Leoni and William H. Macy, in this last Jurassic Park film in the trilogy set. Paleontologist Alan Grant has sworn never to...   Read customer review
  • Flirting With Disaster
  • Flirting With Disaster review by from Totteridge, England
    Rated - 3.0 stars Comedy Without A Comedy 23 May 2004
    ... a plenty. Along for the ride come wife Rosanna Arquette and (near)psychologist Tea Leoni, as the bumbling comedy relief, while Stiller engages us with his usual borderl...   Read customer review

Tea Leoni - filmography


  • Tower Heist - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Téa Leoni,  Eddie Murphy,  Ben Stiller
    Director: Brett Ratner
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Brett Ratner directs this New York City-set crime caper starring Ben Stiller, Casey Affleck, Matthew Broderick and Eddie Murphy. The staff at a luxury Central Park apartment complex discover that Wall Street billionaire Arthur Shaw (Alan Alda), who lives in the building's penthouse apartment, has ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 3,444 members
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  • Tower Heist on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Téa Leoni,  Eddie Murphy,  Ben Stiller
    Director: Brett Ratner
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    When a group of hard working guys find out they've fallen victim to a wealthy business man's Ponzi scheme, they conspire to rob his high-rise residence.
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 7,650 members
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  • Ghost Town on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Ricky Gervais,  Tea Leoni,  Greg Kinnear
    Director: Zhao Dayong,  David Koepp
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Ricky Gervais stars in "Ghost Town" as Bertram Pincus, a New York City dentist with horrendous people skills. When a routine surgery goes awry, Pincus is pronounced dead, but is miraculously revived seven minutes later. The ill-mannered Manhattanite suffers only one lasting after-effect; the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 64,479 members
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  • You Kill Me (2007)
    Starring: Philip Baker Hall,  Ben Kingsley,  Bill Pullman
    Director: John Dahl
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Comedy starring Ben Kingsley and Tea Leoni. Frank Falenczyk (Kingsley) loves his job. He just happens to be a hit-man for his Polish mob family in Buffalo, New York. But Frank's got a drinking problem and when he messes up a critical assignment that puts the family business in peril, his Uncle (..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 5,761 members
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  • Fun With Dick And Jane on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Jim Carrey,  Alec Baldwin,  Richard Jenkins
    Director: Dean Parisot
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Dick Harper's years of hard work finally pay off when he is promoted to vice president at Globodyne, a worldwide leader in the consolidation of media properties. But, after exactly one day in his new job, Globodyne is destroyed by an Enron-like calamity -- and he is left holding the bag. Dick's ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 34,784 members
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  • Spanglish on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Victoria Luna,  Shelbie Bruce,  Cecilia Suarez
    Director: James L. Brooks
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Comedy from acclaimed multiple Oscar-winning writer/director/producer James L. Brooks. A beautiful native Mexican woman Flor (Paz Vega), the mother of an equally stunning 12-year-old, becomes the housekeeper for an affluent Los Angeles family (Adam Sandler, Tea Leoni and Anne Bancroft). Of all the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 27,752 members
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  • People I Know on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Sophie Dahl,  Al Pacino,  Ryan O'Neal
    Director: Daniel Algrant
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Al Pacino stars as Eli Wurman, a worldly and experienced publicist who has spent a long and successful career smoothing over the public lives of rich, famous and extremely powerful people. When Cary Launer (Ryan O'Neal), a famous actor, calls Eli to ask him to discreetly remove a small problem from ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 2,831 members
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  • Jurassic Park 3 - Blu-ray (2001)
    Starring: Sam Neill,  Tea Leoni,  William H. Macy
    Director: Joe Johnston
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Third instalment in the blockbusting dinosaur series. This time around the adventure begins when paleontologist Dr Alan Grant (Sam Neill) is approached by the Kirbys (William H. Macy and Téa Leoni), a wealthy couple who want a guide to escort them on a flight over Isla Sorna, the forbidden dinosaur-..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 72 members
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  • Jurassic Park 3 on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Sam Neill,  Tea Leoni,  William H. Macy
    Director: Joe Johnston
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Anxious to fund research for his new theory of velociraptor intelligence, renowned paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant is persuaded by wealthy adventurer Paul Kirby and his wife Amanda to accompany them on an aerial tour of Isla Sorna. This infamous island, once InGen's site B, has become both a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 17,353 members
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  • The Family Man on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Jeremy Piven,  Don Cheadle,  Nicolas Cage
    Director: Brett Ratner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Wall Street playboy, Jack Campbell is at the top of his professional game with little time for anything else. Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle drastically changes one snowy Christmas night when he unwittingly stumbles into the middle of a grocery store holdup and in a bold display of self-..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 8,415 members
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  • Deep Impact on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Morgan Freeman,  Robert Duvall
    Director: Mimi Leder
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A year after a comet is discovered by 14-year-old amateur astronomer Leo Biederman (Elijah Wood), it is announced that the object's trajectory is leading it on a collision course with Earth. American President Tom Beck (Morgan Freeman) calls for calm while experienced astronaut Spurgeon Tanner (..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 9,328 members
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  • Deep Impact - Blu-ray (1998)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Morgan Freeman,  Robert Duvall
    Director: Mimi Leder
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A year after a comet is discovered by 14-year-old amateur astronomer Leo Biederman (Elijah Wood), it is announced that the object's trajectory is leading it on a collision course with Earth. American President Tom Beck (Morgan Freeman) calls for calm while experienced astronaut Spurgeon Tanner (..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 892 members
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  • Flirting With Disaster on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Mary Tyler Moore,  Ben Stiller,  Alan Alda
    Director: David O. Russell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    New parent Mel Coplin (Ben Stiller) decides that he cannot name his new son until he discovers the identity of his own parents. To the horror of his adoptive parents (Mary Tyler Moore and George Segal), Mel sets out on a quest of discovery with wife Nancy (Patricia Arquette) and sexy psychology ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 2,010 members
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  • Bad Boys on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Martin Lawrence,  Will Smith,  Tea Leoni
    Director: Michael Bay
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Detectives Lowrey (Will Smith) and Burnett (Martin Lawrence) must catch the thief who stole $100 million worth of confiscated heroin from under their noses, or their department will be closed down by the FBI. Beautiful, sexy, but not altogether trustworthy witness Julie (Téa Leoni) comes forward to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 29,092 members
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  • Bad Boys - Blu-ray (1995)
    Starring: Martin Lawrence,  Will Smith,  Tea Leoni
    Director: Michael Bay
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Detectives Lowrey (Will Smith) and Burnett (Martin Lawrence) must catch the thief who stole $100 million worth of confiscated heroin from under their noses, or their department will be closed down by the FBI. Beautiful, sexy, but not altogether trustworthy witness Julie (Téa Leoni) comes forward to ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 2,440 members
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  • A League Of Their Own on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Janet Jones,  Lori Petty,  Madonna
    Director: Penny Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The All-American Girls' Professional Baseball League was founded in 1943, when most of the men of baseball-playing age were far away in Europe and Asia fighting World War II. The league flourished until after World War II, when, with the men's return, the league was consigned to oblivion. Director ..read more »
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Tea Leoni facts

5 most recent films

Tower Heist - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Tower Heist - 3.5 stars
Ghost Town - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Ghost Town - 3.5 stars
You Kill Me - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Bad Boys - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Bad Boys - 3.5 stars
Jurassic Park 3 - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
A League Of Their Own - 3.5 stars
The Family Man - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

People I Know - 2.0 stars
Flirting With Disaster - 2.5 stars
Spanglish - 3.0 stars
You Kill Me - 3.0 stars
Fun With Dick And Jane - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Ben Stiller - 5 times - show films
Bill Pullman - 3 times - show films
Téa Leoni - 3 times - show films
Richard Jenkins - 3 times - show films
Will Smith - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Joe Johnston - 4 times - show films
Brett Ratner - 4 times - show films
Michael Bay - 3 times - show films
John Dahl - 2 times - show films
Mimi Leder - 2 times - show films