Alison King

Infobox actor
name = Alison King


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birthdate = birth date and age|1973|03|03|df=y
location = Leicester, England
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notable role = Carla Connor on "Coronation Street"

Alison King (born 03 March 1973 in Leicester) is an English actress best known for her role as Lynda Block in the Sky One television series "Dream Team" and currently as Carla Connor in "Coronation Street".

Acting

She has also made appearances in a series of well known recurring television adverts for Daz. During her break from working on "Dream Team", she worked on several projects abroad including a role as an extra in the US hit film "Shanghai Knights" working alongside stars such as Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson, supporting major roles such as BBC comedy-drama "Help", video film "Submerged" and theatrical film "Final Contract: Death on Delivery".

She made a guest appearance in the final episode of "Mile High" playing Nigel Croker's wife, and was featured in "Coupling" in the Series 2 episode "The Man with Two Legs", as Chrissy, an attractive woman with whom Jeff Murdock becomes infatuated on his morning train ride. [ [http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0549668/ Internet Movie Database] ]

She also appeared in "Emmerdale" briefly in 1993, 1994 and 1997 where her character was also called Carla. This Carla was one of Frank Tate's nannies who worked at home farm and also appeared at Frank's funeral.

She played one of the prominent roles for two independent films, "Save Angel Hope" and "Back in Business" which are due to release in cinemas late 2006. She was cast as Carla Connor on the popular serial UK drama "Coronation Street" and made her first appearance in this role on 1 December 2006. She has also appeared in another role in "Coronation Street" in 2004 when she apparently bedded her builder Jason Grimshaw,actor Ryan Thomas.

In 2006 King got engaged to fellow actor Jim Alexander who co-starred in several series of Dream Team with her, as well as TV adverts for Daz detergent; however the pair split up in early 2007. She is now dating a "Coronation Street" sound technician called Adam Huckett. They are now expecting their first child in February and are said to be over the moon. [http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/a121158/corrie-star-king-expecting-first-child.html]

Trivia

*Appeared in many Daz ads as Pandora in the 'Cleaner Close' series.
*Her first acting work was two episodes of "Brookside".
*She did the voice overs for the U.S. show "The L Word".
*She dated Simon Gregson.
*She was once was engaged to former Corrie star Philip Middlemiss (Des Barnes). They were together for 5 years.

References

External links

* [http://www.whatsontv.co.uk/soaps/coronation_street/whos_who/carla_connor Alison King's "Coronation Street" profile] at What's on TV
* [http://www.tellyzone.com/coronationstreet/2008/08/007-lesbians-like-alison-king.html Alison King tops lesbian poll]