David Duchovny moped to
Movieline magazine, "I feel
isolated and lonely. I'm not
happy." Little did he know 
that that was going to 
change completely. Under
a veil of virtual secrecy,
Duchovny vowed aternal love
to Tea Leoni, lanky star of
NBC's The Naked Truth. 
"I couldn't be happier,"
the native New Yorker, 36,
told PEOPLE afterward, still
in a somewhat giddy mood. 
"I'm married. I'm in my 
hometown. And," he added,
referring to the NBA playoff 
series between his beloved
New York Knicks and the 
Miami Heat, "the Knicks
in six!"

Their four-month relationship,
furtive as an X-Files conspiracy,
scarcely surfaced publicly. And
even X-Files co-star 
Gillian Anderson was in the
dark about the wedding.
"David and Tea just wanted
to keep this quiet," says a friend,
"without the helicopters."

The plot went something like this:
Duchovny, having just finished
shooting the season finale of his
hit Fox series in Vancouver,
hopped on a plane last Saturday
and flew to New York to join
Leoni, 31, a fellow Manhattanite
whose series had already wrapped
in L.A.

Monday morning-with him wearing
a phony nustache that failed
to fool much of anyone-they 
popped into City Hall for their
marriege license. The following
evening, with the groom dressed
in a beige Armani suit and the
bride decked out in a pale pink
floral gown by Lily et Cie, the
couple exchanged self-penned vows
during a 20-minute ceremony in the 
garden of the Grace Church School.
(Duchovny attended the school
 through eighth grade, and his
 mother, Margaret, works as an
 administrator there.) "This was
a place that had meaning to them."
says school admissions director
Zelda Warner. "It was pretty and 
private."