Alison King was born in Leicester, Leicestershire, England. at Leicester Royal Infirmary to Alex and June King, who were both nurses at the hospital.
King is best known for her roles in Coronation Street (1960), Shanghai Knights (2003), and Double Team (1997). At the age of 18, King moved to Newquay, Cornwall, where she worked at Fat Willys Surf Shack. When she was 22, she enrolled at the North Cheshire Theatre School. During her time there she got her first television role, playing "Helen", a hair salon crimper, in two episodes of Brookside (1982). Before the conclusion of her three-year diploma, she was cast in the major role of "Lynda Block" in Sky One's Double Team (1997) for three years before the character was sent to prison. She reprised the role some years later.
During her break from working on Dream Team, she worked on several projects abroad including a role as an extra in the American feature film Shanghai Knights (2003), and found supporting roles in the BBC comedy-drama Help, video film Submerged (2005), and feature film Final Contract: Death on Delivery (2006). She made a guest appearance in the final episode of Mile High (2003). She played one of the prominent roles for two independent films, Save Angel Hope (2007) and Back in Business (2007).
She has also made appearances in a series of recurring television adverts for Daz. In 2000, she appeared in an episode of Cold Feet as "Girlpower", a seductive Internet avatar. King also appeared in the second episode of the fourth series of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1983) in 2004.
