From People Magazine, May 3,
1999
Transcribed by alfornos
X-panded Family
Actors David Duchovny and Téa Leoni proudly welcome a baby daughter.
[color photo of smiling DD&TL holding hands on the red carpet at this
year's Golden Globes. Caption: Last year, Duchovny (with Leoni at L.A.'s
Golden Globes in January) called married life "very sexy." ]
David Duchovny has an obsession. One day after the X-Files star wed actress
Téa Leoni in Manhattan two years ago, he said, "I couldn't be happier" -
then predicted the New York Knicks would reach the NBA finals. (They didn't.)
On April 26, two days after Leoni, 33, gave birth in L.A. to their first
child, reportedly named Madelaine West Duchovny, the actor had this to say:
"Tea and I are very ecstactic. We're going to be raising her as a Knicks
fan."
The future fan was a week late, says X-Files co-star Mitch Pileggi. "It was
nerve-racking" for Duchovny, he says. "[But] I heard he handled the birth
very well."
The couple, both native New Yorkers, took no baby steps en route to the altar.
They married four months after their mutual agent set them up on a dinner
date in Jan. '97. Duchovny, 38, then helped persuade the X-Files producers
to relocate the show from Vancouver to L.A., where Leoni's now-defunct NBC
sitcom, The Naked Truth, was taping. Last year the couple bought a $3 million,
four-bedroom home near Malibu. After starring in '98's Deep Impact, Leoni
told a friend that all she wanted to do was "take some time off."
Not Dad, not for a while. Duchovny, whose TV commitment to The X-Files runs
for another year, begins filming a romantic drama with Minnie Driver in Chicago
this week. Says Pileggi: "To be changing a diaper, to be doing the show and
going off to do a movie, that's a lot to deal with." Not to mention all those
Knicks games to watch with his daughter.
