Carrie Heffernan

Carrie Spooner Heffernan (born Simone Spooner on June 19, 1968) is a fictional character on the American sitcom The King of Queens, played by Leah Remini. Carrie Heffernan is the attractive, smart-mouthed wife of Doug Heffernan (Kevin James). Her father, Arthur Spooner (Jerry Stiller), lives in their basement. Although her wacky father and husband are a handful and behave like children, she shows much love towards them, great patience with them, and is always the responsible and the voice of reason in the house. For these reasons, Carrie is in charge, but sometimes she becomes particularly bossy. For instance, Carrie has been known to order Doug not to go to certain restaurants, kick out all of his friends when visiting, tell him what kinds of foods to eat, forbid him from wearing the kinds of cologne she doesn't like, and also give her father curfews. Because of things like this, Doug often disobeys Carrie and is very dishonest with her. Eventually Carrie finds out and the two end... full article at wikipedia