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Before he played a married couple on the NBC comedy Newlyweds, Leonie is and Tim Daly find love on another TV set.
Leoni and Daly got their own sitcom starting The Naked Truth and Wingsrespectively. Later the two worked together on it Madam Secretary – where they played love interests – and eventually started going off screen
“I was like, ‘That’s a cool girl.’ Like, she’s not a bull***er,” Daly said on the “Really Famous With Kara Mayer Robinson” podcast in 2021. “She’s here to do this acting job, too. She doesn’t think about her situation or anything like that.”
Daly assured fans that the pair’s relationship was “much better” than their on-screen romance.
The couple dated for more than a decade before tying the knot in 2025. Daly later reflected on their strong bond, telling us in 2026, “I mean, she looked at me, and she saw me. She saw right through me, and it scared the hell out of me, really, because all my defenses and walls came down.”
He continued: “And there I was vulnerable and caught on the beam of her tractor. I can’t even understand. I’m crazy about her. It’s wild.”
Read on to rekindle their romance:
Pre-2014
Before working together, Daly and Leoni attended the same Vermont boarding school—years apart.
2014
Daly and Leoni officially met while appearing on CBS’ Madam Secretary. The show introduced Leoni as a CIA analyst summoned to the Secretary of State’s 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 shared a kiss at the season 5 premiere of Madam Secretary in New York City.
Fan-favorite TV couples such as Buck and Eddie from 9-1-1, Sydney The Bear and Carmy and Tracker’s Colter and Reenie – or Billie – are set to finally reunite on screen in 2026. Based on Jeffery Deaver’s novel The Never Game, Tracker tunes in every week to see their favorite fictional character – called Colter. […]
2024
The couple made a rare red carpet appearance at the NYC screening of Accidentally Brave.
2025
Daly and Leoni tied the knot in a private ceremony in New York after more than a decade of dating.
2026
Leoni and Daly returned to TV to play a couple on NBC’s Newlyweds. According to the official show synopsis, Newlyweds follows “a free-spirited woman and a buttoned-up professor who quickly marry after a whirlwind courtship.”
