Leah Remini (born June 15, 1970) is an Italian American actress via her father; her mother is Russian Jewish.

She first became known as Charlie, the girl with a chip on her shoulder, on the 1989 sitcom Living Dolls. From there, she played Stacey Carosi for a multi-episode stint on Saved by the Bell. Nowadays, she is best known as Doug Heffernan's (Kevin James) wife, Carrie, on the television series The King of Queens, a role she started playing in 1998.

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