Leah Remini Signs With WME to Expand Across TV, Film, Podcasting and More
Leah Remini has signed with WME for representation, a move the agency will use to expand her brand across television, film, digital media, podcasting, original content development and additional platforms, Variety reported on 11 August 2026. She continues to be represented by her long-time lawyers at Del Shaw Moonves Tanaka Finkelstein & Lezcano.
The deal brings a performer and producer with one of the more unusual career arcs in American television under one of the industry's largest talent agencies. WME, one of the two dominant agencies in Hollywood, will look to place Remini across scripted and unscripted television, podcasts and digital content — the kind of multi-platform portfolio that streaming has made standard for established on-air talent.
Remini is best known for starring opposite Kevin James in the CBS sitcom The King of Queens, which ran for nine seasons from 1998 to 2007. She and James reunited a decade later on another CBS sitcom, Kevin Can Wait, in 2017. Her earlier television credits include guest and supporting roles on Cheers, Friends, NYPD Blue, Saved by the Bell and Who's the Boss?, plus its spinoff Living Dolls. On the film side, she appeared in Old School and Second Act.
Beyond acting, Remini has built a substantial body of work as a host, producer and investigative documentarian. She created, hosted and executive produced the A&E docuseries Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath with Mike Rinder. The series earned four Emmy nominations during its run and won two. Remini and Rinder went on to co-create and co-host the iHeartRadio podcast Scientology: Fair Game. She also published the memoir Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology.
Her unscripted television credits are broad. She starred in two reality series — Inside Out: Leah Remini on VH1 and Leah Remini: It's All Relative on TLC — and was one of the original co-hosts of the CBS daytime panel show The Talk. She competed on Dancing with the Stars and later returned as a co-host and guest judge. She hosted and executive produced the Game Show Network's People Puzzler, a role that earned her a Daytime Emmy nomination, and served as a judge on Fox's So You Think You Can Dance in the same period. An A&E special she produced examining Jehovah's Witnesses was announced in 2018 to air between seasons of the Scientology docuseries, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Remini had previously been a client of the talent agency Verve, as noted in Variety coverage from 2019. Her move to WME signals an intent to scale up across formats rather than stay in any single lane — a performer who has moved from network sitcoms to investigative documentary to game-show hosting now betting that an agency built for scale can find the next slot for each of those skills.
