Background
King was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Queens.
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Education
King attending LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts at Lincoln Center in New York, and later studied acting at The Actors Centre in London.
Career
She of West Indian/Guyanese descent. King began her acting career appearing in a number of Office-Broadway productions and played guest starring roles on television series include Law & Order, and Sex and The City. From 2009 to 2010, she was regular cast member in the TNT crime drama series, Saving Grace opposite Holly Hunter, playing Neely Lloyd, the young drug addict.
After Saving Grace, King guest starred on Mad Men, Major Crimes, and NCIS. She voiced Riley Abel in the 2013 video game The Last of Us: Left Behind.
In 2014, she played plantation slave in the Civil War western film, Deliverance Creek produced by Nicholas Sparks. In 2015, she was cast in the recurring role as Ada Eze on the American Broadcasting Company prime time television soap opera, Blood & Oil.
