Personal life

She was born in 1962 and American by birth. She spent most of her childhood in Missouri and her full name is Harriet Cleo King.  She is the youngest in her family and led a happy life with her six siblings. She doesn’t want to disturb her family members and she never revealed her family details. In the initial days of her acting career, she had faced several struggles and even her die-hard fans also don’t know the hurdles she had faced.

Personality

She is just five feet two inches tall and is shorter than the average height of a woman in America. She changes her figure based on the character of the role she is currently playing. She is a bit obese in the initial days of her career but because of continuous and hectic work schedule, she is not looking that much obese these days. She had proved that even with chubby figure, one can get immense fan following and there is no need to wear bikinis and flaunt assets to get popular.

Career journey

Her acting career started when she was first appeared on TV for The Cosby Show. From then onwards, she has been acting in movies and TV serials and entertaining the people. She is known for portraying the police officer roles in several films. In the films like The Hangover, Pineapple Express her acting is quite impressive and her comic timing is perfect. She had acted in more than fifty Hollywood films and still continuing her journey on the bigger screen.

She plays the character of Aunt Lou in the popular TV serial is Deadwood. Her character as Carl's grandmother in Mike and Molly was also well received by audience. In fact, she is just seven years elder than Reno Wilson (Carl) in real life. Her comic role as Neela in Sons of Anarchy which was telecasted in the year 2009 is also quite impressive. Even after crossing fifty years of age also, she is entertaining audience.

She is not very active on the social networking platforms. She never made headlines for wrong reasons and never dated anyone. She is very dedicated to her work and all the wealth she had accumulated till now through movies and TV shows is because of her hard working nature only. Her net worth is approximately five million dollars. She is very kind at heart and whenever she is free; she takes care of destitute children. Recently, she revealed that she had plans to adopt children who missed their loved ones. Her biography is an inspiration for young actresses who want to act without exposing their body.