Madam Secretary Co-stars Tea Leoni & Tim Daly’s New York Wedding Explained

Interested to know more about the relationship between Téa Leoni and Tim Daly following their work on Madam Secretary? The pair, who portrayed a married couple in the popular CBS show, have been rather secretive about their personal life for years. However, after almost a decade as a couple, they’ve recently gotten married in a private family ceremony held in New York.

Here’s how their relationship began on set and quietly evolved into marriage.

Tea Leoni and Tim Daly are married

Téa Leoni and Tim Daly are married.

On a peaceful Saturday, the 12th of July, 2025, the couple officially got married in a close-knit family gathering held in New York. A spokesperson for Leoni verified this information to People, mentioning that only close relatives attended the nuptials.

59-year-old Leoni and 69-year-old Daly initially crossed paths on the set of the CBS political drama Madam Secretary back in 2014. The series spanned six seasons, airing from September 2014 to December 2019. During this time, Leoni and Daly played Elizabeth and Henry McCord, a couple on-screen. It was during the initial season of filming that their off-screen romance blossomed.

It was reported by December 2014 that the pair had been secretly dating since the summer. In the same year, Leoni ended her 17-year marriage to actor David Duchovny in August through divorce. Additionally, she was spotted attending Daly’s play, Red, over the Fourth of July weekend in Vermont.

At the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, D.C., back in April 2015, Leoni and Daly first appeared as a couple in public. They shared a table with journalist Bob Schieffer and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. During the event, Daly jokingly told Bloomberg TV, “We’re going to be quite the lively conversation.

Later on, it was confirmed by Geoffrey Arend, their co-star in Madam Secretary, that the cast was taken aback by the romantic relationship. He shared with People magazine, “It wasn’t common knowledge. You wouldn’t want to approach your boss and ask, ‘By the way, who are you dating?'” Arend also noted, “Tim is simply wonderful. They make a great pair.

Despite both Daly and Leoni having gone to the same exclusive high school, it wasn’t until they collaborated on Madam Secretary that they finally crossed paths.

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2025-07-15 09:10