Acting
Leah Marie Remini (born June 15, 1970, height 5' 3" (1,60 m)) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Carrie Heffernan on the CBS hit sitcom The King of Queens from 1998 to 2007. Prior to The King of Queens, she was known for her six episode stint as Stacey Carosi in 1991 on the NBC sitcom Saved by the Bell. She was also one of the co-hosts on the CBS network daytime talk show/series The Talk, before being fired in 2011. Leah Remini was born in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York City to private-school teacher Vicki Marshall and George Remini, who owned an asbestos-removal company. Her mother is of Austrian Jewish background and her father was Sicilian. Remini has an older sister, Nicole Remini (born 1969), who was her assistant on The King of Queens. She also has four half-sisters, including Christina (born 1969). Remini moved to Los Angeles, California, at age 13 with her mother to pursue an acting career. Remini met Puerto Rican salsa musician Angelo Pagán in 1996 at a Cuban restaurant. Pagan has three sons from previous relationships. In January 2003, Remini announced their engagement; they were married on July 19, 2003. On June 16, 2004, the day after her 34th birthday, Remini gave birth to daughter Sofia Bella, who weighed 6 lb/7.4 oz.
Friends
1994 · TV
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009 · TV
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003 · TV
Dancing with the Stars
2005 · TV
The View
1997 · TV
Diagnosis: Murder
1993 · TV
Cheers
1982 · TV
RuPaul's Drag Race
2009 · TV
The King of Queens
1998 · TV
Hollywood Squares
1998 · TV
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003 · TV
Renegade
1992 · TV
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015 · TV
Tamron Hall
2019 · TV
The Masked Singer
2019 · TV
Who's the Boss?
1984 · TV
So You Think You Can Dance
2005 · TV
The Talk
2010 · TV
Intimate Portrait
1993 · TV
Blossom
1990 · TV
The Reichen Show
2005 · TV
Milo Murphy's Law
2016 · TV
The Commish
1991 · TV
Chelsea
2016 · TV
Match Game
2016 · TV
Saved by the Bell
1989 · TV
The Wendy Williams Show
2008 · TV
The Exes
2011 · TV
Flight Risk
2025 · Movie
Old School
2003 · Movie
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
1999 · TV
Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side
2011 · TV
Fired Up
1997 · TV
Kevin Can Wait
2016 · TV
Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath
2016 · TV
Fat Actress
2005 · TV
Family Tools
2013 · TV
Second Act
2018 · Movie
Mad Families
2017 · Movie
RuPaul
2019 · TV
Living Dolls
1989 · TV
The Clapper
2018 · Movie
MADtv
1995 · TV
Handsome: A Netflix Mystery Movie
2017 · Movie
First Time Out
1995 · TV
E! True Hollywood Story
1996 · TV
People Puzzler
2021 · TV
Glory Daze
1995 · Movie
Normal Life
1990 · TV
Follow Your Heart
1999 · Movie
Getting Up and Going Home
1992 · Movie
Phantom 2040: The Ghost Who Walks
1994 · Movie
The Mother, the Menacer, and Me
2025 · Movie
