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Cleo King
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King at the 2014 Seventh Annual Bel Air Film Festival at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills
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| Born | August 21, 1962 |
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| Years active | 1988–present |
Cleo King is an American actress born on August 21, 1962. She is well-known for her roles on television. Many people know her from the TV show Mike & Molly, where she played a main character from 2010 to 2016.
Cleo King's Early Life and Acting Start
Cleo King was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She was the youngest of seven children in her family. Cleo went to the University of Missouri. After finishing college, she moved to New York City. Her goal was to become an actress. She started her acting career by performing in plays on stage.
Cleo King's Journey to Becoming a Star
In the mid-1990s, Cleo King moved to Los Angeles, California. This is where she started appearing on many TV shows. Some of her early TV roles were in shows like The Wayans Bros., Living Single, and Friends, where she played a nurse.
Cleo has also acted in many movies. She often played smaller, but memorable, parts. Some of these movies include Magnolia (1999), Dude, Where's My Car? (2000), Dreamgirls (2006), and The Hangover (2009). She even appeared in Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014). Cleo has been a guest star on over 50 different TV shows! These include popular series like NYPD Blue, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and NCIS.
From 2001 to 2002, Cleo King had a recurring role. She played Helene Parks in the TV drama Boston Public. Later, in 2006, she played Aunt Lou in the HBO drama series Deadwood. In 2009, she was Neeta, the nanny, in the FX drama Sons of Anarchy.
A big role for Cleo King came in 2010. She was cast as Rosetta "Nana" McMillan in the CBS comedy show Mike & Molly. She played a grandmother on the show for many years.
In 2017, Cleo appeared in the Netflix series A Series of Unfortunate Events. She played the character Eleanora Poe. That same year, she was in the movie The Bye Bye Man. More recently, in 2021, she made a special appearance on the show 9-1-1: Lone Star. She played Cynthia Strickland, the mother of a character named Paul Strickland.
Cleo King has had a long and successful career. She has brought many different characters to life on both the big screen and television.
