20 Actors Who Just Had Awesome Comebacks

5. Téa Leoni

The Naked Gun 2025
A24

Téa Leoni is well known for her performances in films such as Bad Boys, Deep Impact, Jurassic Park III, and Fun with Dick and Jane, as well as leading the hit political drama series Madam Secretary.

But after the show ended in 2019, Leoni wasn't seen again in any screen project until this past year, when she appeared as one of the primary villains in A24's wild horror-comedy Death of a Unicorn.

Leoni is an absolute hoot here as Belinda Leopold, the thoroughly obnoxious, privileged wife of pharma CEO Odell Leopold (Richard E. Grant). 

She clearly understood the assignment and hams it up for the cheap seats as this deeply unpleasant woman who eventually gets her suitably violent end courtesy of one very, very pissed off unicorn.

It's a welcome reminder of what we were missing while she wasn't gracing her screens, and though she's currently appearing in Only Murders in the Building, hopefully we'll also see her in another major movie soon enough.

 
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