Leah Remini

American actress

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role in “The King of Queens”

  • Jerry Stiller
    In Jerry Stiller: Stage, film, and television career

    …comedy starring Kevin James and Leah Remini as a working-class couple. Stiller played Remini’s father, Arthur Spooner, a somewhat more low-key version of his Seinfeld character. He continued to appear in roles on other shows and in films, including his son’s satirical Zoolander movies (2001 and 2016), the Will Ferrell…

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  • Kevin James
    In Kevin James: Nailing the everyman character: The King of Queens

    …with his wife, Carrie (Leah Remini), and his father-in-law, Arthur Spooner (Jerry Stiller). Valentine, James’s real-life brother, portrayed Doug’s cousin, Danny Heffernan. James’s portrayal of Doug as a sports-watching, junk food-eating everyman resonated with audiences. Of the show’s appeal, he told The New York Times in 1999, “I think…

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