Téa Leoni’s Husband: Who Tim Daly Is

Tea Leoni’s career and public profile

Téa Leoni, born Elizabeth Téa Pantaleoni, is an American actress and film producer. She has also worked as a model and served as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. She is of English descent and attended The Putney School, Brearley School and Sarah Lawrence College. Her early television work included Flying Blind and The Naked Truth.

Leoni’s breakthrough role came in Bad Boys in 1995. She subsequently led Deep Impact, The Family Man, Jurassic Park III, Spanglish and Fun with Dick and Jane. From 2014 to 2019, she played Elizabeth McCord in the CBS drama Madam Secretary. The role brought her together with co-star Tim Daly.

Tim Daly’s identity and background

Tim Daly is an American actor born on 1 March 1956 in Manhattan. He is known for playing Joe Hackett in the NBC sitcom Wings and for a recurring role as a recovering alcoholic screenwriter in The Sopranos. He also starred as Toby Amberville in the CBS television miniseries I’ll Take Manhattan.

Daly is the younger brother of actress Tyne Daly and the youngest of four children of actor James Daly and actress Mary Hope Daly. He was born at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan and was his parents’ only son. A photograph from the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival records him with his sister Tyne Daly.

Daly studied acting at The Putney School and continued his professional training at Bennington College, where he studied Theatre and Literature, acted in summer stock and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree. He made his stage debut at seven in Jenny Kissed Me, appearing with his parents and two sisters. His first television appearance came at ten in an American Playhouse adaptation of An Enemy of the People.

Leoni and Daly’s relationship

Leoni and Daly began dating in December 2014 while appearing together in Madam Secretary, with Daly serving as her co-star. They later made a public red-carpet appearance at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner as a couple, which the Huffington Post covered on 27 April 2015. Their relationship continued after that public appearance.

Leoni and Daly married on 12 July 2025 in New York. The wedding was described as an intimate family ceremony. Their marriage established Daly as Leoni’s husband from 2025 onwards, while the relationship had begun more than a decade earlier when they worked together on the television drama.

Tea Leoni’s wider family

Tea Leoni was previously married to Neil Tardio Jr. from 1991 to 1995. She was also married to David Duchovny from 1997 to 2014. Tim Daly is her current husband, having married her in 2025. Daly’s marriage to Leoni followed both of those earlier marriages.

Anthony Pantaleoni is Leoni’s father. The family record lists West Duchovny and Kyd Miller Duchovny as her two children, both of whom are children of Leoni and David Duchovny. Their family connections also connect Leoni with Duchovny through their shared years as a married couple from 1997 to 2014.

Tim Daly’s work outside his marriage

Daly’s occupation is actor, with work across television, stage and film. His best-known television role is Joe Hackett in Wings, while The Sopranos brought him a recurring role as a recovering alcoholic screenwriter. The role of Toby Amberville in I’ll Take Manhattan was another television credit.

His professional acting career began with the 1978 stage adaptation of Equus. Earlier, he had appeared as a child actor in Jenny Kissed Me and in the American Playhouse production of An Enemy of the People. His acting career therefore predates his work with Leoni and his marriage to her by many years.

Details that have not been publicly reported

The circumstances surrounding Leoni and Daly’s first meeting have not been published beyond their connection as co-stars on Madam Secretary. No account of their earliest conversations or how their relationship developed away from the television set has appeared in print. They also have not publicly described when they first discussed becoming married.

No separate engagement announcement for Leoni and Daly has been published. The specific wedding venue within New York, the guest list and details of the reception have not been made public. No joint statement about their plans for working and living together after the wedding has appeared.