Leah Marie Remini is an American film and television actress and author. She is best known for portraying Carrie Heffernan in the long-running CBS comedy series ‘The King of Queens’. A long-time member of the Church of Scientology, she garnered media attention when she left and publicly denounced the religion in 2013. Since then, she has been one of the most vocal critics of the Church. In 2015, she published ‘Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology’, her memoir about her time in the Church and why she left it. Her parents had initially raised her in the Roman Catholic tradition. When she was nine years old, her mother converted to the Church of Scientology and her children soon joined the Church as well. Remini made her screen debut in 1988 in an episode of the sitcom ‘Head of the Class’ and debuted on the big screen with the 1997 film ‘Critics and Other Freaks’. She portrayed Carrie Heffernan in ‘The King of Queens’ from 1998 to 2007. She also played Lara Campbell in the comedy film ‘Old School’ and co-hosted ‘The Talk’. Since leaving Scientology, she has been hosting the Emmy Award-winning documentary series ‘Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath’. In 2017, Remini reunited with her ‘The King of Queens’ co-star Kevin James for the short-lived sitcom ‘Kevin Can Wait’.