'Remington Steele' Cast: Then And Now

The Remington Steele cast had us watching NBC religiously from 1982 until 1987 - five seasons with a total of 94 episodes were made and every episode thrilled the audience. The series evolves around the private detective "Laura," played by Stephanie Zimbalist, who does not think she can make it as a female private eye. So she decides to invent her own detective agency!

The role of "Laura Holt" was the big breakthrough for Stephanie Zimbalist! She was 26 years old when she took on the lead role in Remington Steele. See the next picture to find out what is doing these days.

Today, Stephanie still works as an actress. Since Remington Steele, Zimbalist has taken leading roles in several television movies such as The Man in the Brown Suit (1988), the Emmy Award winning Caroline? (1990), The Great Elephant Escape (1995), and some guest roles in television series such as Touched by an Angel and Diagnosis Murder.

The handsome Pierce Brosnan was cast as the ominous "Remington Steele" and the role made him quite famous. He had only started is acting career two years earlier. Today, he is known by most people as the MI6 agent "007"...

The handsome Pierce Brosnan was cast as the ominous "Remington Steele" and the role made him quite famous. He had only started is acting career two years earlier. Today, he is known by most people as the MI6 agent "007"...

Doris Roberts' acting career had started 32 years before she got the role of the witty secretary "Mildred Krebs." She appeared in a number of great roles in the years after Remington Steele.

In 1996, Doris was cast as "Marie Barone" in Everybody Loves Raymond. She played that role for nine years and was nominated for countless awards. She won four Emmy Awards overall as Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2005. Doris Roberts died on April 17th 2016 at the age of 90.

In the final season of Remington Steele, Jack Scalia came on the show in the supporting role of "Tony Roselli." When the show ended after that season, he played the role of "Nicholas Pearce" in Dallas for 29 episodes. Go to the next picture to see what he is doing today...

After playing a part in Dallas, his roles in films like Pointman (1995) and Red Eye (2005) made him famous, as well as his role on the popular daily soap All My Children, in which he played "Chris Stamp" for two years. In 2017, Scalia featured in the film Veterans Day. Jack Scalia has two children with his ex-wife Karen Baldwin.

James Read, who we all know and love from the amazing mini-series North & South, played the detective "Murphy Michaels" in Remington Steele. To this day, he regularly appears in big productions...

Aside from many other films, James Read appeared in both Legally Blonde movies (2001 & 2003), the TV shows Charmed and Wildfire. From 2014 to 2018, he played the part of "Clyde Weston" in Days Of Our Lives, which is still one of the longest-running television shows ever. It has been on the air since 1975! Read has two children with his wife Wendy Kilbourne.