HFPA: Téa Leoni on Madam Secretary 2014

Golden Globe Awards: Hollywood Foreign Press Association Its perhaps inevitable that two figures loom large over Madam Secretary, Tea Leonis new fall series for CBS in which she plays a retired CIA operative, wife and mother of two, pressed into political service when the Secretary of State unexpectedly dies. The actress told the HFPA she is a strong admirer of two actual past Secretaries of State: Madeleine Albright and Hillary Clinton, women that like the character she plays are strong female role mo