Kelly Tisdale: Mike Myers’ Wife, TeaNY Founder and Life Away from the Spotlight

Most people first hear the name Kelly Tisdale in the same breath as her husband, Mike Myers, the Canadian comedian behind Austin Powers, Wayne’s World and Shrek. Yet the woman behind that name had a life of her own long before the cameras ever turned her way, and she has kept building it quietly ever since. Among the many celebrity stories that begin with a famous husband, hers is different, because the most interesting part is not the wedding. It is the working life she built on either side of it, in television art departments and in a small tea cafe on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

Kelly Tisdale is an American scenic artist and entrepreneur, best known to the public as the wife of Mike Myers and as the co-founder of TeaNY, a tea cafe and vegan restaurant in New York City that she opened with the musician Moby. The two married in a private ceremony in 2010, after four years of dating, and they have three children together. While Myers went on being one of the most recognisable comedy stars in the world, Kelly Tisdale stayed mostly out of sight, running a business, raising a family, and keeping her private life private.

This article looks at what is actually known about Kelly Tisdale, from her Massachusetts childhood to her degree at Suffolk University, her work behind the scenes in television, the TeaNY years, her relationship with Myers, and the quiet family life they have built in New York. Where the sources disagree, and they disagree often, the disagreement is noted, because a careful account should say so rather than pick a side without proof.

Kelly Tisdale Quick Facts

• Full name: Kelly Tisdale
• Born: 27 March 1977, as widely reported (exact date not publicly confirmed — see Common Confusions)
• Birthplace: Templeton, Massachusetts, United States
• Nationality: American
• Parents: Daniel Tisdale and Jennifer Spielmann, as reported
• Known for: Scenic artist; co-founder of TeaNY; wife of comedian Mike Myers
• Education: Suffolk University, Boston — degree in Government and International Affairs, graduated 1999 as reported
• Early career: Art department work in television, including Erotic Confessions (1994–1997); reported work at Human Rights Watch
• Business: Co-founder of TeaNY (Teany), a tea cafe and vegan restaurant at 90 Rivington Street, New York (opened 2002, closed 2015)
• Marriage: Mike Myers (married in a private ceremony in New York City, autumn 2010)
• Children: Spike Alan Myers (born 2011), Sunday Molly Myers (born 2014), Paulina Kathleen Myers (born 2015)
• Current residence: New York City, as reported
• Public profile: Very private; no verified public social media presence

Who Is Kelly Tisdale?

Kelly Tisdale is an American scenic artist and businesswoman whose name entered entertainment coverage through her marriage to Mike Myers. She is not an actress, and she has never tried to be one. Her work has always been behind the scenes: painting sets and building the visual world of television, and later running a cafe where the visual world mattered just as much.

That timing matters, because it means Kelly Tisdale was already building a career before she met Myers, and she kept working after they married. She studied government and international affairs at university, worked in the art department of a television series in the 1990s, took a job at a human rights organisation after moving to New York, and then opened a business of her own. The marriage brought her name into the public eye, but it did not create the life she was already living.

What makes her worth writing about is the contrast between her husband’s public life and her own. Myers built a career on being seen: the characters, the voices, the red carpets, the premieres. His wife has built her adult life on the opposite instinct. She gives almost no interviews, keeps no public social media, and has never tried to turn the connection into a public brand. The daughter of a small Massachusetts town who became a New York businesswoman is the story, and the famous husband is only part of it.

Early Life in Templeton, Massachusetts

Kelly Tisdale was born on 27 March 1977 in Templeton, Massachusetts, according to most of the profiles that cover her. Templeton is a small town in Worcester County, between Fitchburg and Orange, and it is a long way from the New York world she would later move into. Almost nothing reliable has been published about her parents, her siblings, or her childhood home. The biography sites that name her parents, Daniel Tisdale and Jennifer Spielmann, offer little else that can be checked, and the honest position is that her early family life is not part of the public record.

What is reported with more consistency is her schooling. Kelly Tisdale went to Suffolk University in Boston, where she studied government and international affairs, and she is reported to have graduated in 1999. That degree says something about the direction she was heading at the time. She was not studying acting, or film, or anything that pointed towards the entertainment industry. She was studying how governments work and how countries deal with each other, and the job she took after university fitted that interest.

After graduating, Kelly Tisdale moved to New York City and, according to the older profiles, took a job at Human Rights Watch, the worldwide human rights organisation. That detail comes from the earlier accounts of her life rather than from a recent interview, so it is given here as reported rather than settled. What it fits is the shape of a young woman who had studied international affairs and wanted to work in a field connected to it, before her life took a different turn towards art and business.

Scenic Art and Erotic Confessions

The first clearly documented work in the career of Kelly Tisdale came in television, behind the camera. According to IMDb, she worked in the art department on Erotic Confessions, a television series that aired between 1994 and 1997, contributing to 17 episodes. Scenic art is the work of painting and finishing the sets that actors perform in front of, and it is the kind of skilled, invisible craft that television depends on and audiences never notice.

The dates need a note of caution. If Kelly Tisdale was born in March 1977, she would have been 17 when the series began in 1994, which is young for art department work, and the record as it stands does not explain how the credit fits with her university years. Some profiles place the start of her art department career in 1997 instead. This article gives the IMDb credit as it stands, with the dates as reported, and flags the tension rather than smoothing it over.

What is clear is that scenic art was her trade before she became a business owner, and it stayed part of how she is described long after she left television. It is the part of her working life that most directly connects her to her husband’s world, though on the other side of the camera. He performed on sets. She helped build them.

TeaNY: The Cafe with Moby

The clearest picture of Kelly Tisdale’s working life comes from TeaNY, sometimes written TeaNY or teany, the tea cafe and vegan restaurant she co-founded with the musician Moby. The cafe opened in May 2002 on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, at 90 Rivington Street, and it became a small fixture of the neighbourhood for more than a decade.

TeaNY was a tea house first and a restaurant second. It served a wide range of teas alongside vegetarian and vegan food, and it also sold its own line of bottled drinks. The decor, most of which was designed by Moby himself, gave the place a distinct look, and the cafe became known as a calm, plant-based alternative to the ordinary coffee shop. Over time, Kelly Tisdale took on a larger role on the business side of TeaNY, with Moby taking a smaller one.

Moby was not only her business partner. He had been her romantic partner before the relationship with Myers became public, and the two had built the cafe together while they were together. That history is part of why the cafe mattered to both of them, and why it outlasted the relationship. A fire in June 2009 caused minimal damage to the tea house, and after a closure it reopened in May 2010, briefly rebranded as Teany-ssimo, before going back to the original name.

TeaNY closed for good in December 2015, thirteen years after it opened. By then Kelly Tisdale had been married to Myers for five years and had three young children, and the cafe belonged to an earlier chapter of her life. What it proves is that by her mid-twenties she had already founded and run a real business in one of the hardest restaurant markets in the world, on the strength of her own work.

Meeting Mike Myers

Kelly Tisdale met Mike Myers in 2006, shortly after he had ended his first marriage to Robin Ruzan, an actress and comedy writer he had married in 1993. The two began dating that year, and the relationship stayed mostly out of the press at first. In 2006, the National Enquirer asked Kelly Tisdale about the relationship, and she confirmed it, which is how the pairing became public knowledge.

Myers was, by then, one of the biggest comedy stars in the world. Born in Scarborough, Ontario, in 1963, he had come to fame on Saturday Night Live, then built a film career on Wayne’s World, Austin Powers and Shrek. Kelly Tisdale was about 14 years younger than him, and she was a New York cafe owner, not a Hollywood figure. The pairing crossed two very different worlds, and the couple seem to have liked it that way.

They kept the relationship quiet for four years. There were no joint interviews, no red carpet routines, and very little public comment from either of them. That privacy was a choice both of them shared, and it has held ever since.

The Secret Wedding of 2010

In the autumn of 2010, Mike Myers and Kelly Tisdale were married in a private ceremony in New York City. Nobody outside their circle knew. The news did not break until five or six months later, when a representative for Myers confirmed the marriage to the New York Post. By then the couple had already been married for months, and the world found out after the fact.

One biography site gives the wedding date as 22 November 2010. That exact day comes from a single source, and the stronger reporting gives only the autumn of 2010, so this article uses the season rather than treating the day as settled. What is consistent across the reporting is the shape of it: a small, private ceremony, no public announcement, and a confirmation months later.

The secrecy was not a stunt. It was the same privacy the couple had kept throughout their relationship, carried through to the wedding itself. Myers had spent his career being watched, and his wife had spent hers being mostly unwatched. The wedding was the one moment where those two habits met, and privacy won.

Motherhood: Spike, Sunday and Paulina

Kelly Tisdale and Mike Myers have three children together: a son and two daughters. Their first child, Spike Alan Myers, was born in September 2011, reported as 29 September, a little under a year after the wedding. Their second child, Sunday Molly Myers, was born in April 2014, reported as 11 April. Their third child, Paulina Kathleen Myers, was born in November 2015, reported as 2 November.

The name Sunday has a story behind it, and Myers has told it himself. He said on the David Letterman show that he and Kelly both absolutely hated Sundays, and they named their daughter Sunday because they wanted to change how they felt about that day of the week. It is a small, human detail, and it is one of the few personal anecdotes the couple have shared in public.

The children have been kept almost entirely out of the public eye. Their names and birth years are reported, and the family is known to live in New York City, but there are no public social media accounts for them, no interviews, and no attempts to build a public profile around them. That is the same privacy their parents have kept for themselves, extended to the next generation.

Life in New York Today

As of 2026, Kelly Tisdale lives in New York City with Myers and their three children. She is 49 years old, and she keeps a much lower public profile than her husband. Most profiles place the family in New York, where her business was based and where Myers has long kept a home.

Her current work has not been publicly confirmed in detail. The TeaNY cafe closed in 2015, and no later business has been named in the reporting. Some profiles describe her as an author and entrepreneur, though no book or company is identified in the stronger sources, so those descriptions should be read as reported rather than documented. What is clear is that she has not taken up acting, has not become a public personality, and has not built a brand from the marriage.

The couple do appear together in public from time to time, and the rare appearances are news precisely because they are rare. In April 2026, Myers and Kelly Tisdale attended the Los Angeles premiere of the film Michael together, posing cheek to cheek on the red carpet, in what was described as a rare date night. It was one of the few times in years that the two had been photographed together at a public event, and the coverage treated it as a glimpse of a marriage that is normally kept out of sight.

A Private Life, Kept on Purpose

For all the famous names in her life, the most consistent part of the story of Kelly Tisdale is the privacy. She has given almost no interviews about herself, built no public profile of her own, and kept her children out of the spotlight. The biography sites that track her say she chose a quiet life away from fame, and the absence of any later public record supports that.

That privacy is not an accident, and it is not new. Long before she married Myers, the profiles that mentioned her at all described her in the same terms: a private person who had chosen a life away from the public eye. The marriage did not change that. Her name was in the news when the wedding was confirmed, and again when the children were born, and then she went back to being what she had always been: a New York businesswoman and mother whose husband happens to be famous.

It is worth saying what that choice has cost her in public terms. She is written about far less than most celebrity wives, and almost everything written about her is second-hand, assembled from a handful of profiles that repeat each other. That is frustrating for anyone trying to write about her, and it is also the point. She has never asked to be written about, and she has never helped anyone do it.

Common Confusions About Kelly Tisdale

Because Kelly Tisdale keeps such a low profile, and because so much of what is written about her comes from biography sites that copy each other, several errors and mix-ups keep appearing online. The most common ones are worth clearing up.

Was she born in 1976 or 1977? Most profiles give 27 March 1977, which would make her 49 in 2026. A smaller group of older sites give 1976, which would make her 50. The 1977 date is the one carried by the majority of the longer profiles, and this article uses it, but the disagreement is real and the exact date has never been confirmed by a primary source.

Is she related to Ashley Tisdale? No. Kelly Tisdale is sometimes mistaken for being related to the American actress and singer Ashley Tisdale, who starred in the High School Musical films. There is no evidence of any family connection between them. They share a surname and nothing else, and the mix-up has been flagged by more than one profile.

Did she act in the Hangover films? No. Some low-quality profiles claim Kelly Tisdale was born in Los Angeles in 1982, acted in The Hangover films, co-founded a lifestyle brand called Tisdale and Co, and married an actor named Christopher French. None of that matches the real Kelly Tisdale. Those profiles appear to describe a different person, or to have been invented outright, and they should be ignored.

Where did she study, Suffolk or Boston University? Most profiles say Suffolk University in Boston, where she studied government and international affairs and graduated in 1999. At least one site says Boston University instead. The Suffolk account is the better supported one, because it comes with a graduation year and a degree subject, and this article follows it.

How tall is she? Sources disagree, giving 1.73 metres in one place and 5 feet 8 inches, about 172 centimetres, in another. Those two figures are close enough that the difference is barely worth noting, and no official measurement has been published. This article does not state a height as fact, because the honest answer is that it is not publicly confirmed.

What is her net worth? Figures quoted online range from about $1 million to $5 million in some reports, and up to about $20 million in others, and none of them comes from a credible financial source. Kelly Tisdale has not publicly stated her net worth, and no figure should be quoted as fact.

When exactly did she marry Mike Myers? The wedding took place in the autumn of 2010, in a private ceremony in New York City, and the news broke about five months later. One site gives the date as 22 November 2010, but that exact day comes from a single source and is not confirmed by the stronger reporting, so this article gives the season rather than the day.

When were the children born? The birth years are consistent: Spike in 2011, Sunday in 2014, Paulina in 2015. The exact days, 29 September 2011, 11 April 2014 and 2 November 2015, are reported by some profiles and not confirmed by others. The month and year are the better supported facts, and the days should be read as reported.

Did she work at Human Rights Watch? The older profiles say she moved to New York after university and took a job at Human Rights Watch. That detail comes from the earlier accounts of her life and has not been confirmed by a recent source, so it is given here as reported rather than settled.

Frequently Asked Questions About Kelly Tisdale

Who is Kelly Tisdale?

Kelly Tisdale is an American scenic artist and entrepreneur, best known as the wife of comedian Mike Myers and as the co-founder of TeaNY, a tea cafe and vegan restaurant in New York City. She was born in Templeton, Massachusetts, in 1977, studied at Suffolk University, and worked in television art departments before opening her own business.

How did Kelly Tisdale meet Mike Myers?

The two met in 2006, shortly after Myers had ended his first marriage to Robin Ruzan. Kelly Tisdale confirmed the relationship that year, and the couple dated for four years before marrying in a private ceremony in New York City in the autumn of 2010.

When did Kelly Tisdale marry Mike Myers?

They married in the autumn of 2010, in a private ceremony in New York City. The news did not become public until about five months later, when a representative for Myers confirmed the marriage. Myers had previously been married to Robin Ruzan from 1993 to 2006.

How many children do Kelly Tisdale and Mike Myers have?

They have three children together: a son, Spike Alan Myers, born in September 2011; a daughter, Sunday Molly Myers, born in April 2014; and a daughter, Paulina Kathleen Myers, born in November 2015. The family lives in New York City.

What is TeaNY?

TeaNY, sometimes written teany, was a tea cafe, vegan restaurant and beverage distributor in New York City that Kelly Tisdale co-founded with the musician Moby. It opened in May 2002 at 90 Rivington Street on the Lower East Side and closed in December 2015. The cafe was known for its teas, its plant-based food and its decor, much of which Moby designed himself.

What did Kelly Tisdale do before TeaNY?

Kelly Tisdale worked as a scenic artist in television, with an art department credit on the series Erotic Confessions, which aired from 1994 to 1997. She is also reported to have worked at Human Rights Watch after moving to New York City, following her degree in government and international affairs at Suffolk University.

Is Kelly Tisdale related to Ashley Tisdale?

No. There is no evidence of any family connection between Kelly Tisdale and the actress and singer Ashley Tisdale. They share a surname and nothing else, and the mix-up appears regularly in online profiles.

Conclusion

Kelly Tisdale spent most of her working life outside the spotlight, and that is the point of her story. She started in a small Massachusetts town, studied government and international affairs in Boston, worked behind the scenes in television, and opened a tea cafe in New York with a famous musician. Along the way she met a young Canadian comedian who later became one of the most famous comedy stars in the world, and she married him in a ceremony so private that the world did not hear about it for five months.

The marriage has lasted more than fifteen years, and the family they have built has three children and a home in New York. Kelly Tisdale did not follow her husband into the public eye, did not build a public brand from the marriage, and has not given a public account of her life to match the profiles written about her. She went back to work, kept her private life private, and let the famous name stay in the background. That quieter path is easy to overlook next to a famous husband, and it is the part of her story that deserves to be remembered. For readers who want to check the basic facts about the people and places in her life, a general reference is a good place to start.