Leah Remini

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Leah Remini in New York City (2018)

Leah Marie Remini (born June 15, 1970 in Brooklyn , New York City ) is an American actress of Austrian - Italian descent. She was best known for her role as Carrie Heffernan on the sitcom King of Queens .

Career

Remini's entry into the film scene began with a commercial for motor oil. She was seen for the first time on television in the series Great Class , which was broadcast on the ProSieben television channel in 1991 . Then followed a role in Who's the Boss? , from which a spin-off under the title Living Dolls was developed, in which she played a leading role. She also starred in Spelling Soap California High School and the sitcom Daddy Can Make Us All . In addition to guest appearances in Diagnosis: Mord , New York Cops - NYPD Blue and Friends , Remini also played Rhea Perlman's rebellious daughter Sarafina in the classic sitcom Cheers . In the cinema, she was in a supporting role in the film Old School - We Don't Let Anything Burn , in the NBC series Being Creative is Everything in the role of Terri Reynolds, Sharon Lawrence 's indestructible business partner.

Remini had her breakthrough with the television series King of Queens . There she played Carrie , the wife of Doug Heffernan ( Kevin James ), who were the two main roles in the series. The sitcom ran from 1998 to 2007 and belonged in Germany the most successful of its kind. Between 2010 and 2011, moderated Remini, along with Julie Chen , Sara Gilbert , Holly Robinson Peete , Sharon Osbourne and Marissa Jaret Winokur , the talk show The Talk on CBS that they left after the first season after her contract was not renewed.

In German , Remini is dubbed by Christine Pappert and Madeleine Stolze .

Private life

Leah Remini's father, George Remini, owned an asbestos removal company ; his ancestors came from Sicily. Her mother Vicki Marshall has Austrian-Jewish roots and ran a school. Her parents divorced in 1977. Remini has one sister and four half-sisters. Leah Remini was initially baptized Catholic, but converted to the Church of Scientology with her mother at the age of nine. Since she was 14, when she left school, contrary to her mother's advice, she had been doing various jobs.

On July 19, 2003, Remini married her fellow actor Angelo Pagan , and a documentary of the wedding was broadcast on the VH1 series (Inside) Out . The couple has a daughter (* 2004). Since July 2014, she has been presenting her private life in the docu-soap Leah Remini: Meine verrückte Familie und I ( Leah Remini: It's All Relative ) on the TV channel TLC , which has also been shown on TLC Germany since December 2014 .

One of her best friends is Jennifer Lopez , who lived with her for three months in 2009 while Lopez's new Los Angeles mansion was being prepared.

Scientology affiliation

Remini was a member of Scientology for 35 years and solicited memberships from its fans. She donated several million US dollars during this period.

Remini's request for the whereabouts of Shelly Miscavige, wife of Scientology chief David Miscavige , in 2006 resulted in years of interrogation, family scrutiny and brainwashing , according to the New York Post . She left the organization in mid-2013: “She distances herself from a regime that she considers corrupt. She thinks that no religion should break a family or abuse someone under the guise of religion. "

In November 2015 she published Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology, a book about her experience with Scientology. Remini is also producing a TV documentary about Scientology Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath , which has been broadcast since November 2016 and now has over 3 seasons.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1988: Great class ( Head of the Class , TV series, episode 3x05)
  • 1989: Who's the boss here? ( Who's the Boss?, TV series, 2 episodes)
  • 1989: Living Dolls (TV series, 12 episodes)
  • 1990: Normal Life (TV series, episode 1x10)
  • 1990: The Hogan Clan ( Valerie , TV series, 6x10)
  • 1991: Paradise - One man, one Colt, four children (TV series, episode 3x01)
  • 1991: The Man in the Family (TV series, 7 episodes)
  • 1991–1992: California High School ( Saved by the Bell , TV series, 6 episodes)
  • 1991, 1993: Cheers (TV series, 2 episodes)
  • 1992: Courage to Love ( Getting Up and Going Home , TV film)
  • 1992: Blossom (TV series, episode 2x20)
  • 1993: Daddy Can Make Us All ( Evening Shade , TV series, 3 episodes)
  • 1993: Harlan & Merleen (TV movie)
  • 1994: The Police Chief - Ice in the Blood ( The Commish , TV series, episode 3x21)
  • 1994: Renegade - Merciless Hunt (TV series, episode 3x04)
  • 1995: The Mysterious Death of Grace Kelly ( Star Witness , Movie made for TV)
  • 1995: Diagnosis: Murder ( Diagnosis Murder , TV series, episode 2x19)
  • 1995: Friends (TV series, episode 1x23)
  • 1995: First Time Out (TV series, 12 episodes)
  • 1995: Glory Daze - Long live the university! (Glory Daze)
  • 1996: New York Cops - NYPD Blue ( NYPD Blue , TV series, episode 3x21)
  • 1997: Critics and Other Freaks
  • 1997–1998: Being creative is everything ( Fired Up , TV series, 28 episodes)
  • 1998: Love and Other Misunderstandings (Follow Your Heart)
  • 1998–2007: King of Queens ( The King of Queens , TV series, 206 episodes)
  • 2003: Old School - We don't let anything go wrong (Old School)
  • 2005: Fat Actress (TV series, episode 1x04)
  • 2007–2008: In the Motherhood (web series, 8 episodes)
  • 2010–2011: The Talk (talk show)
  • 2013: Family Tools (TV series, 10 episodes)
  • 2014: Leah Remini: My Crazy Family and I ( Leah Remini: It's All Relative , TV show, 9 episodes)
  • 2014–2015: The Exes (TV series, 15 episodes)
  • 2017: Mad Families
  • 2017: The Clapper
  • 2017-2018: Kevin Can Wait (TV series, 26 episodes)
  • 2018: Manhattan Queen (Second Act)
  • 2020: The Masked Singer (TV show, guest judge episode 3x03)

Books

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leah Rimini TV and film actress | Parade.com. (No longer available online.) March 23, 2010, archived from the original ; accessed on May 22, 2020 .
  2. ^ CNN.com - Career - Leah Remini: Working hard as a queen among kings - April 20, 2001. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
  3. ^ The King of Queens Star Leah Remini: Leaving Scientology. Retrieved May 22, 2020 (English).
  4. ↑ Entry at filmreference.com
  5. ↑ contactmusic.com: [1]
  6. ↑ Leah Remini on Scientology "You lose touch with reality". Spiegel, October 26, 2015
  7. ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Celebrities and their way to Scientology. Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 21, 2008
  8. ↑ Exclusive: Actress Leah Remini quits Scientology after years of 'interrogations' nypost.com, July 11, 2013 , accessed July 12, 2013
  9. ↑ Leah Remini was interrogated by Scientology. , Web.de Magazin, July 13, 2013 ( Memento from July 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 13, 2013
  10. ↑ Leah Remini's TV documentary about Scientology abuse, beatings, isolation. Spiegel, November 30, 2016
  11. ↑ Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath
personal data
SURNAME Remini, Leah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Remini, Leah Marie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City , New York , United States