'Madam Secretary' Star Tèa Leoni Is Headed Back to Comedy With New Sitcom Alongside Jamie Lee Curtis Megan JohnsonFebruary 15, 2026 at 9:10 PM 0 Photo by LUCY NICHOLSON on Getty Images Tèa Leoni may be most famous for her dramatic roles, but the actress is returning to TV with a new comedy pilot. Leoni, 59, rose to stardom with roles in films like Deep Impact, The Family Man, and Bad Boys. But it was her role in the dramatic series Madam Secretary, in which she played United States Secretary of State Elizabeth McCord, that led her to mainstream success. Now, Leoni is headed back to network TV.
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Megan JohnsonFebruary 15, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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Tèa Leoni may be most famous for her dramatic roles, but the actress is returning to TV with a new comedy pilot.
Leoni, 59, rose to stardom with roles in films like Deep Impact, The Family Man, and Bad Boys. But it was her role in the dramatic series Madam Secretary, in which she played United States Secretary of State Elizabeth McCord, that led her to mainstream success.
Now, Leoni is headed back to network TV. She's set to star in Newlyweds, an NBC pilotco-created by Gail Lerner and Jamie Lee Curtis, Deadline reported. The series is a later-in-life love story about a free-spirited woman named Jeanie, played by Leoni, and a buttoned-up professor who marry impetuously after a whirlwind courtship, according to the synopsis.
While Lerner will pen the series, Curtis is expected to take on a supporting role.
It won't be Leoni's first time tackling a sitcom. Back in the '90s, she starred alongside Holland Taylor in The Naked Truth, which followed the drama of a tabloid news publication.
She Flexed Her Comedy Chops on Only Murders in the Building
Leoni's new comedy gig follows her successful run on season 5 of Hulu's hit series Only Murders in the Building, in which she played Sofia Caccimelio, the wife of the missing "Dry Cleaning King of Brooklyn," Nicky Caccimelio. After years of dramatic roles, it was great to see Leoni inject a little humor into things!
Leoni is a Newlywed
Leoni, who was previously married to David Duchovny, married actor Tim Daly, known for roles on Wings, Private Practice, and Madam Secretary, in 2025. The duo first met on Secretary in 2014, and played husband and wife Elizabeth and Henry McCord in the series, which ran for six seasons.
When asked when he fell in love with Leoni, Daly spoke candidly with PEOPLE: "God, about four minutes after I met her at the office of Madam Secretary,"
While the duo doesn't appear on social media together all that often, occasionally they pull a good one out of the archive, like Daly's throwback photo of Leoni and himself with Madeleine Albright.
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