1965年8月24日生于美国伊利诺伊州莫顿格罗夫市（Morton Grove, Illinois,United States），美国女演员。18个月大时她就失去了听觉，她是奥斯卡奖历史上最年轻的最佳女主角奖获得者，也是第一位荣膺此奖项的听障人士，同时成为四位初涉银幕就获得奥斯卡小金人的女演员之一。 玛丽·...
作为一名多才多艺的演员，King出色的演技早已获得好莱坞的赏识，她的电影作品有《Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous》、《Ant Bull》、《Ray》、《Legally Blonde 2》等。从小在洛杉矶长大，King首次登上电视荧幕实是热播的情景喜剧《227》，成功出演了5季后转战大银幕。她事业的转折点是在1997年，她先后出演了《Jerry Maguire》、《How Stella Got Her Groove Back》、《Enemy of the State》等具有里程碑意义的影片。她目前与儿子Lan一起住在洛杉矶。
After graduating from Bolles High School in Jacksonville, Florida, Ashby took a degree in psychology and business administration at Fort Lewis College in Durango in the state of Colorado, and then moved to New York where he took drama classes in the Neighborhood Playhouse. Early in his career he took part in the soap opera Loving, and an episode of MacGyver, also got a small role in the 1990 movie Mr. & Mrs. Bridge with Paul Newman and again in 1990 he starred in the independent film The queen of hell alongside Karen Black.
