From her biography, Leah Remini was born in Brooklyn, in the city of New York. His mother is a schoolteacher called Vicki Marshal and her father is George Remini who is the owner of asbestos removal company. The mother was born as Austrian Jewish while the father is of Sicilian (Italian) descent. She was born with Nicole Remini who was born in 1969 and she has other four half- sisters. When she was 9 years, the mother joined the Church of Scientology and since then, she was raised like Scientologist. The family moved to live in Los Angeles, when she was 13 and this is when she pursued her acting career.

Leah Remini appeared for the first time on Who’s The Boss? TV show where she was Charlie Briscoe. This led to its spin-off series under the name of Living Dolls and she took up the role of Halle Berry. The show started in 1989 and it ran for over 12 episodes before it got cancelled.

Remini was in Saved by the Bell when she played Stacey Carosi. Afterwards she played in the two series of Fired Up and First Time Out. She was on Cheers when she played like a daughter to Nick and Carla Tortelli. In the year 1994, she auditioned to play on Friends for the role of Monica Geller but Courteney Cox was given this role.

In addition of acting, she was also a co-host for The Talk. This is a CBS talk show that started in 2010 and other co-hosts were Sharon Osbourne, Holly Robinson Peete, Sara Gilbert and Julie Chen. This is the show that was modeled after The View. It was meant to address the cotemporary and motherhood issues. She was criticized from the first show and after the first episode, she was not asked to return into the show.

Leah Remini got married to Angelo Pagan in 1996 and they met in Cuban restaurant. Her husband had already 3 sons from the old relationship. In the year 2003, Remini said that she is already engaged and they got married in 2003. They have given birth to a daughter called Sofia in the year 2004. Leah Remini had accused the Church of Scientology sexual misconduct, lies and abuse. She says that she has spent most of her life in the church and she did not want to learn that she had believed in lies all along. Her family had already left the church before, but the Church said that what she says is not the true. Her net worth is believed to be over 20 million dollars.