Newlyweds’ Tea Leoni and Tim Daly’s Relationship Timeline

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Before playing a married couple on the NBC comedy Newly-weds, Tea Leoni And Tim Daly I found love on another television set.

Leoni and Daly launch their own personal sitcom Naked truth And Wingsrespectively. The two later worked together Lady Secretary – where they become love interests and eventually start dating off-screen

“I said, ‘That’s a nice girl.’” “She’s also here to do the acting thing,” Daly said on the “Really Famous for Kara Mayer Robinson” podcast in 2021. “He’s not thinking about position or anything like that.”

Daly assured fans that the couple’s real-life relationship is “much better” than their on-screen romance.

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The couple was together for more than a decade before getting married in 2025. “So, he looked at me and he saw me. He saw right through me and it scared the hell out of me because all of my defenses and walls actually came down,” Daly later told Us in 2026.

She continued: “And there I was, defenseless, and I got caught in his tractor beam. I can’t even understand it. I’m crazy about him. It’s so crazy.”

Keep scrolling to relive their romance:

Before 2014

Before working together, Daly and Leoni attended the same Vermont boarding school years apart.

2014

Daly and Leoni officially met while starring on CBS Lady Secretary. The program introduced Leoni as a former CIA analyst who was summoned to the State Department office. Daly played her husband.

2015

The couple made their red carpet debut at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in April 2015.

2018

Daly and Leoni kissed in the season 5 premiere. Lady Secretary in New York.

TV Ships

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2024

The duo made a rare red carpet appearance at the New York screening of Accidentally Brave.

2025

Daly and Leoni married in a private ceremony in New York after more than a decade of dating.

2026

Leoni and Daly return to television to play a couple on NBC Newly-weds. According to the official show synopsis, Newlyweds follows “a free-spirited woman and a buttoned-up professor who hastily marry after a whirlwind courtship.”

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